Journal of Tropical Oceanography ›› 2018, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (5): 13-19.doi: 10.11978/2018005CSTR: 32234.14.2018005

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Design and application of ship-borne marine-monitoring platform

Zhaohua SUN1(), Wenxi CAO2(), Jianlong HUANG1, Xuan ZHOU1, Xiaowei LI1, Guowang ZOU2   

  1. 1. CAS Key Laboratory of Ocean and Marginal Sea Geology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Guangzhou 510301, China
    2. State Key Laboratory of Tropics Oceanography (South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Guangzhou 510301, China;
  • Received:2018-01-04 Revised:2018-03-25 Online:2018-09-20 Published:2018-10-13
  • Supported by:
    Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41406205);Welfare Project of the Oceanic Administration (201305019);Project of South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Y4SL021001);Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangdong Province of China(2017B010118004)

Abstract:

The lack of ocean observation data is a bottleneck, which limits our capability to study and explore oceans. We designed a fully-automatic marine-monitoring platform with the remote-telemetry function, which also can auto-obtain ship-borne long time series marine monitoring data. We tested the fully-automatic marine-monitoring platform two times in coastal water and open ocean, which was stable, reliable and compatible according to the data analyzed. The data showed relevant parameters’ changes and revealed mechanisms of relevant ocean events and processes. We expect to popularize the platform on ferries, fishing boats/ships and other non-scientific ships, which utilize existing routes and ship-borne observation method to obtain cost-effective and real-time big data on both wide spatial scale and long time series. Based on the present marine technology, it is a new technical solution to the problems of lacking oceanographic data.

Key words: environmental monitoring, water quality monitoring, ship-borne, oceanographic observation

CLC Number: 

  • P715.41