[MARMAM] New publication: A review of unmanned vehicles for the detection and monitoring of marine fauna
Dear all, On behalf of my co-authors I am pleased to share our recent publication with you: Verfuss, U.K., Aniceto, A.S., Harris, D.V., Gillespie, D., Fielding, S., Jiménez, G., Johnston, P., Sinclair, R.R., Sivertsen, A., Solbø, S.A., Storvold, R., Biuw, M., Wyatt, R., 2019. A review of unmanned vehicles for the detection and monitoring of marine fauna. Marine Pollution Bulletin 140, 17-29. The paper reviews currently available unmanned platforms suitable for surveying marine mammals and may therefore be of interested to the MARMAM community. A B S T R A C T Recent technology developments have turned present-day unmanned systems into realistic alternatives to traditional marine animal survey methods. Benefits include longer survey durations, improved mission safety, mission repeatability, and reduced operational costs. We review the present status of unmanned vehicles suitable for marine animal monitoring conducted in relation to industrial offshore activities, highlighting which systems are suitable for three main monitoring types: population, mitigation, and focal animal monitoring. We describe the technical requirements for each of these monitoring types and discuss the operational aspects. The selection of a specific sensor/platform combination depends critically on the target species and its behaviour. The technical specifications of unmanned platforms and sensors also need to be selected based on the surrounding conditions of a particular offshore project, such as the area of interest, the survey requirements and operational constraints. Please feel free to download the article here (open access): https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0025326X19300098 Best, Ursula Dr Ursula Verfuss Principal Scientist · Bioacoustics [1] SMRU Consulting|New Technology Centre|North Haugh|ST ANDREWS|Fife KY16 9SR|Scotland email: u...@smruconsulting.com<mailto:u...@smruconsulting.com> |Tel: +44 (0)1334 466011 websites: www.smruconsulting.com<http://www.smruconsulting.com/> | [cid:image005.png@01CE7722.381114C0] @SMRU_Consulting [cid:image006.jpg@01CE7722.381114C0] www.linkedin.com/company/smru-marine<http://www.linkedin.com/company/smru-marine> P Please consider whether you really need a hard copy of this email before printing it - thank you NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY: This message, and any attachments, are intended solely for the addressee and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you believe that you have received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately and destroy this email. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are free from any virus, we advise that, in keeping with good computing practice, the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. SMRU Consulting is a trading name of SMRU Limited, which is a limited company registered in Scotland, Registered Number: SC296937. Registered Office: 5 Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh EH3 8EJ. ___ MARMAM mailing list MARMAM@lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/marmam
[MARMAM] LAST CALL: Seeking information on low visibility real-time monitoring techniques
Dear MARMAM-list editors, I was assuming that the below email would have been sent out to the list last Friday or Saturday. As the deadline referred to the end of last week, I changed that sentence from end of this week to end of last week in the text below and would kindly ask you to forward this current email to the list instead of the one I sent 10 July 2015 13:41. Thanks so much! Ursula Dear MARMAMers, Thank you to everyone who responded to our first call, and to those who forwarded the call to potential responders! We were approached with a few questions that came up regularly which we would like to clarify in this last call. VENDERS, DEVELOPERS AND SUPPLIER OF (POTENTIAL) LOW VISIBILITY MARINE MAMMAL MONITORING EQUIPMENT PLEASE READ This project is reviewing and evaluating monitoring methods that can readily or in the near future be used in conditions where marine mammal observers (MMOs) cannot visually detect marine mammals for mitigation purposes. The purpose of this study is to identify specific technologies that are currently available and may be used for future field trials sponsored by either the IOGP-JIP or individual companies and to identify potential areas as well as (future) technologies that require further development in order to provide or improve effectiveness of new low-visibility monitoring technology for use during marine seismic surveys. The project report will provide a listing of venders, developers and suppliers of these equipment and services which will be made available to a wide variety of Oil Gas companies. If you would not like to be named then your information can be anonymised. We would be grateful to anyone filling in our questionnaireshttp://www.smruconsulting.com/locations/europe/low-visibility-real-time-monitoring/ within the next days - deadline was end of last week, but we will leave the questionnaires open for a few more days. Please let me know if you would like your equipment or company to be included but cannot fill in the questionnaires in time - we will find a solution. Thank you! Ursula FIRST CALL: Dear MARMAMers, We are currently working on a project entitled Comparison of low visibility real-time monitoring techniques and identification of potential areas of further development for the detection of marine mammals at sea during EP activities offshore funded by the Joint Industry Programme on EP Sound and Marine Life - Phase III (IOGP-JIP). We are looking for developers, suppliers and users of real-time low visibility monitoring equipment that is or might currently or in future be suitable for detecting marine mammals and other large marine animals for mitigation purposes. If you are amongst (at least) one of those, we would be extremely interested and grateful if you would be willing to dedicate some of your time to answering some of the questionnaires we set up on this website: http://www.smruconsulting.com/locations/europe/low-visibility-real-time-monitoring/ If you would rather answer these questions on a phone call or by sending us leaflets containing such information please go ahead and let us know! We are happy to phone you or pull information out of material you send us. If you wish to send us anything please email me on ukv(at)smruconsulting.com. Your answers will enable us to review and evaluate the capabilities and viabilities of existing and developing low visibility mitigation monitoring methods and systems. The results of this review including an overview over the systems will be published in a report to the IOGP-JIP. Thanks a lot for your efforts! Sincere greetings, Ursula Dr Ursula Verfuß Senior Scientist [SMRU_Consulting_Horizontal_(rgb)] SMRU Consulting|New Technology Centre|North Haugh|ST ANDREWS|Fife KY16 9SR|Scotland email: u...@smruconsulting.commailto:u...@smruconsulting.com |Tel: +44 (0)1334 479100 websites: www.smruconsulting.comhttp://www.smruconsulting.com/ | Twitter: @SMRU_Consulting | LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/company/smru-marinehttp://www.linkedin.com/company/smru- P Please consider whether you really need a hard copy of this email before printing it - thank you NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY: This message, and any attachments, are intended solely for the addressee and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you believe that you have received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately and destroy this email. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are free from any virus, we advise that, in keeping with good computing practice, the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. SMRU Consulting Limited is a trading name of SMRU Limited, which is a limited company registered in Scotland, Registered Number: SC296937.
[MARMAM] Seeking information on low visibility real-time monitoring techniques
Dear MARMAMers, We are currently working on a project entitled Comparison of low visibility real-time monitoring techniques and identification of potential areas of further development for the detection of marine mammals at sea during EP activities offshore funded by the Joint Industry Programme on EP Sound and Marine Life - Phase III (IOGP-JIP). We are looking for developers, suppliers and users of real-time low visibility monitoring equipment that is or might currently or in future be suitable for detecting marine mammals and other large marine animals for mitigation purposes. If you are amongst (at least) one of those, we would be extremely interested and grateful if you would be willing to dedicate some of your time to answering some of the questionnaires we set up on this website: http://www.smruconsulting.com/locations/europe/low-visibility-real-time-monitoring/ If you would rather answer these questions on a phone call or by sending us leaflets containing such information please go ahead and let us know! We are happy to phone you or pull information out of material you send us. If you wish to send us anything please email me on ukv(at)smruconsulting.com. Your answers will enable us to review and evaluate the capabilities and viabilities of existing and developing low visibility mitigation monitoring methods and systems. The results of this review including an overview over the systems will be published in a report to the IOGP-JIP. Thanks a lot for your efforts! Sincere greetings, Ursula Dr Ursula Verfuß Senior Scientist [SMRU_Consulting_Horizontal_(rgb)] SMRU Consulting|New Technology Centre|North Haugh|ST ANDREWS|Fife KY16 9SR|Scotland email: u...@smruconsulting.commailto:u...@smruconsulting.com |Tel: +44 (0)1334 479100 websites: www.smruconsulting.comhttp://www.smruconsulting.com/ | Twitter: @SMRU_Consulting | LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/company/smru-marinehttp://www.linkedin.com/company/smru- P Please consider whether you really need a hard copy of this email before printing it - thank you NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY: This message, and any attachments, are intended solely for the addressee and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you believe that you have received this email in error, please contact the sender immediately and destroy this email. Although we have taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are free from any virus, we advise that, in keeping with good computing practice, the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. SMRU Consulting Limited is a trading name of SMRU Limited, which is a limited company registered in Scotland, Registered Number: SC296937. Registered Office: 5 Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh EH3 8EJ. ___ MARMAM mailing list MARMAM@lists.uvic.ca https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/marmam
