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Deliverables

Quality Plan

NAUTILOS Quality Plan will describe the quality processes and procedures to be adopted within NAUTILOS It will provide a detailed presentation of the quality management process procedures and timing quality review deliverable review peer reviews stage gate reviews and the deadlines for each There will be sections on risk management issues management quality of the communication The following deliverable will represent the initial version of the plan

Report on testing results of the joint operations of sensors, buoy, lander and ASV in ST6.3.1

The D6.3 will report the results of the joint operations of different sensors (WP5) and platforms (buoy, lander and ASVs) installed in existing operational observatories (e.g. POSEIDON), which will be developed in sub-Task 6.3.1. Details for a novel sampling scheme and documentation of the necessary improvements in order to achieve fully operational status will be included in the report.

Data sheet of final animal towed tagging system with O2 sensor
Data management workflow

The deliverable will be a report describing common methods for parameterplatform management from collection and procedures for data quality insurance to dissemination by making data available and linkable to other European Infrastructure such as EMODnet CMEMS SeaDataNet etc as well as European directives eg INSPIRE To this aim standards such as controlled vocabularies for metadata will be discussed and adopted In case of new data for which a harmonized workflow is not yet consolidated NAUTILOS will design it and interact with other initiatives eg EMODnet Ingestion designed to collect and store new and orphan data

KPI assessment 1

Following the definition of D9.5, two more documents will delivered to track and discuss about the impact of the Nautilos project. The first will be delivered in M36.

Interoperability requirements definition

The following deliverable will describe the machinetomachine standards and protocols It will consider both common interoperability recommendations eg OGC Open Geospatial Consortium up to European Directives for metadata description eg INSPIRE The analysis will support the selection of dissemination channels and services as well as the data and metadata presentation

Report on the testing results of the joint operations of sensors, buoy and AUV in ST6.3.2

Report on the testing results of the joint operations of sensors, buoy and AUV in ST6.3.2.The report will describe results of Field measurements to be conducted in the experimental site of Capo Tirone (Cosenza, Italy) using an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), a buoy and a boat. It will report the results of simultaneous data gathering from the three systems and related sensors.Last. it will also report on a GIS-based statistic data-analysis, based on geospatial interpolation of the collected dataset validated with a “CrossValidation” procedure on the various types of parameters, trying to find correlation between different sensors developed in NAUTILOS.

Validation and integration report on ships of opportunity

This report will be related to Task 5.3 (Sensor integration into ships of opportunity) activities including “Integration of DO and Chl-a sensor and Hub system on fishing vessels” (ST5.3.1) and “Integration of sensors/samplers on FerryBox ships of opportunity” (ST5.3.2) and will include description of sensors validation and of the integration process onto vessels facilities and/or instruments already available on the ships, to be carried out before demonstration phase in WP7. Also IFREMER, NKE, NIVA, SYKE, HCMR and CSEM will contribute to this deliverable.

Policy Briefs

The deliverable will provide concise summary of information that can help readers understand NAUTILOS interests and line of action, including policy recommendations. The deliverable will be a summary of the 2 sets of policy briefs to be created throughout the project.

A review and prospectus of the mandate for marine environmental monitoring systems: technology challenges and opportunities

This report will compile the outcomes of the work performed in Task 21 Political and societal drivers and requirements informing on the potential of evolving trends in technological progress in advancing contemporary marine environmental monitoring practices and examining the role any resulting changes in established operating paradigms could play in shaping the sociopolitical framework defining ocean observing needs at the global and European levels

Outreach, Communication and Dissemination Strategy 2

The following report will outline the communication and dissemination strategy and actions that will be implemented throughout the projects lifetime in order to achieve the projects widest promotion greatest visibility and awareness to the external audiences with a particular emphasis on citizen science campaigns The Communication and Dissemination Plan will provide the framework and structure of all project information communication and activities will define the communication goals the objectives and timelines will allocate responsibilities on a per partner level and define a set of key performance indicators KPIs for the quantification and measurement of the communication and dissemination activities success The following is the 1st update of the deliverable first presented in M2

Open Access Instrumentation Roadmap

The deliverable will outline a marine instrumentation roadmap of available technology for oceanography stakeholders (e.g. industry, policymakers, researchers). It will be a ten-year open access roadmap for marine instrumentation presenting information from industrial companies, universities and research centers including the name of the sensor/instrument, the application area or type of technology, maturity level (TRL) and information about its ongoing or planned commercialization. The roadmap will build on H2020 AtlantOS project, and information from EurOcean’s infobase - Marine Knowledge Gate 3.0 (H2020 Common Sense project) and results from NeXOS project and following the general community recommendations on FAIR data (Toste et al. 2019).A final version of the roadmap building on the roadmap developed in M24 will be included in the final version of the NAUTILOS Exploitation Strategy.

Report on the testing results of the joint operations of sensors and UAV in ST6.3.3

Report on the testing results of the joint operations of sensors and UAV in ST6.3.3.

External Advisory Board Report 3

An annual report and evaluation provided by the External Advisory Board providing their overall assessment of NAUTILOS and advice on the future direction of the project. The following deliverable will be the report following their meeting after MM7 in M36.

Strategic Policy Agenda

Strategic plan to frame the policy engagement and define common priorities between the different players.

Report on integration of payloads/sensors on Lander platform

Report on integration of payloads/sensors on Lander platform.

Report on results and methodology of calibration/validation experiments performed in T6.2

Report on the various calibration/validation activities related to WP4 involving carbonate system sensors, silicate sensor, deep ocean CTD, microplastics sampler, and microplastics sensor (subtasks 6.2.1-6.2.5) using a combination of lab, large tank (mesocosm), and pressure tank facilities using environmentally-relevant range of variables to assess accuracy, precision, and reliability.

NAUTILOS Exploitation Strategy

The deliverable will provide the Exploitation Plan and IPR Management Strategy of NAUTILOS It will outline access rights and IPRs Background Foreground Sideground Postground Access Rights risk analysis and mitigation measures complete review of current open source and open hardware licenses outlining application to the project scope

Report on integration of payloads/sensors on UAV

Report on integration of payloads/sensors on UAV.

NAUTILOS Socio-Economic Impact Assessment

The deliverable will present in a report format the economic impact assessment for NAUTILOS to be used as a tool during the later stages of the project and throughout its exploitation (incl. post-project) to build stakeholder support for the project results (focusing in particular on impacts no. 7 – economic value and no. 9 – policy making), support the creation of future business cases and inform decision makers.

Report and fabrication of a dissolved oxygen sensors based on fluorescence quenching

Report and fabrication of a dissolved oxygen sensors based on fluorescence quenching a novel system based on the direct measurement of the fluorescence time decay constant will be developed the exponential decay of the fluorescence will be measured without any exciting light source eliminating the need for a selective filtering a highperformance timetodigital converter will be used to extrapolate fluorescence time constant and hence dissolved oxygen concentration

Outreach, Communication and Dissemination Strategy

The following report will outline the communication and dissemination strategy and actions that will be implemented throughout the projects lifetime in order to achieve the projects widest promotion greatest visibility and awareness to the external audiences with a particular emphasis on citizen science campaigns The Communication and Dissemination Plan will provide the framework and structure of all project information communication and activities will define the communication goals the objectives and timelines will allocate responsibilities on a per partner level and define a set of key performance indicators KPIs for the quantification and measurement of the communication and dissemination activities success

KPI definition for the NAUTILOS data management and dissemination infrastructure

One of the most important outcomes for a project producing new valuable data is the assessment of the use and adoption of such result. The deliverable will describe the methodology to run this assessment and the definition of the key performance indicators of the project in terms of the use of the data, connection of third party infrastructures to NAUTILOS data and product, tracking of the citation of the NAUTILOS docs, deliverables, and data.

Report on Management Procedures

The report on management procedures will describe the projects collaborative cloudbased partner space Intranet the storage space to be secured for sampler sensor specification details to facilitate integration and collaborative deployments and the project management toolkit

NAUTILOS Environmental Impact Assessment

The following deliverable will present an EIA of the environmental impacts of the development and demonstration activities within NAUTILOS and their cumulative effects. Assessment will be carried out in terms of impacts of animal borne sensors, noise pollution, the expendability and fate of devices used as they approach their end of lifetime, demonstration phases employing single-use, disposable sensors and waste management procedure.

Report on integration of payloads/sensors on ASV

Report on integration of payloads/sensors on ASV.

External Advisory Board Report 2

An annual report and evaluation provided by the External Advisory Board providing their overall assessment of NAUTILOS and advice on the future direction of the project. The following deliverable will be the report following their meeting after MM5 in M24.

External Advisory Board Report 1

An annual report and evaluation provided by the External Advisory Board providing their overall assessment of NAUTILOS and advice on the future direction of the project The following deliverable will be the report following their meeting after MM3 in M12

Report on communication activities at key events

Report on the outcomes of the attendance to key events in the scope of policy engagement strategy.

Technical documentation and operational field primary data capture systems

The deliverable will be a report discussing the available tools for guaranteeing that project documents will be achieved and longterm publicly available and referable Services and tools such as SEANOE Zenodo ResearchGate etc will be considered and discussed Finally the deliverable will define a method to be applied to the project documents according to the disclosure document level

"Report on ""Novel multi-platform cooperative network integration"""

Report on Novel multiplatform cooperative network integration It will describe the common interface protocol for communications according to standards acoustic underwaterRF surface communications The communications will be realised using the communications protocol developed during the DAMOCLES FP6 project

Data Management Plan - 2nd periodic report update

In this deliverable an update of the DMP at M36 will be reported.

Data Management Plan - 1st periodic report update

In this deliverable an update of the DMP at M18 will be reported

Data Management Plan

In this deliverable the Data Management Plan DMP of the project will be written in compliance with the H2020 Data Management Guidelines also based on inputs from WP8 It will outline a data management policy including data to be generated by the project its potential exploitation curation and preservation Additionally in line with the principles of Open Access to research data and publications generated through H2020 programmes NAUTILOS will participate in the Open Research Data Pilot carried out by the European Commission

Citizen Science tools and Interface

This deliverable will consist of the specific tools and interface for supporting the Citizen Science Campaigns to integrate the data produced during these activities see Task 122 within the web portal The interface realized in Task 84 will be based on georeferenced maps indicating for instance plastic litter data An accompanying report with the guidelines for the usage of these tools and interface will be produced

Model approach implementation and specifications

D86 specifies the model setup structures data sources and simulation procedures for the three modelling pilot sites Coast of Algarve Med Sea and Fjord system Additionally the deliverable will provide the results of the nature runs created with detailed evaluation of quality and error assessment through rigorous validation procedures using both existent observation data eg EMODNET CMEMS and observation data made available by NAUTILUS when applicable

Automatic image analysis tools

This deliverable will consist of the implementation of image analysis tools based on methods and algorithms designed explicitly to perform different automatic classifications These tools will be used and applied both on already available and acquired images during the project An accompanying report describing the tools will be produced

Interoperability services and catalogues

To guarantee the maximal visibility of the NAUTILOS project products a dedicated catalogue will collect and list the produced data products There are different tools and services to set up catalogues eg Sextant GeoNetwork EPOS etc The report will discuss pros vs cons of the available solutions and identify the best option for the project The catalogue will also be linked with dissemination toolschannels such as ERDAPP or THREDDS that will guarantee easy interoperability and up to date machinetomachine services The document will discuss the technical implementation of this solution

Design of Thematic Assembly Center for innovative parameters

Following the outcome of D83 this deliverable will describe in practice technical design how to set up a dedicated NAUTILOS assembly center for the parameters not yet managed by other initiatives and so anticipating what the European integrators and infrastructures could implement

Fully developed Graphic User Interface

This deliverable will consist of the deployment of the Projects web portal through which the storage and management of the integrated data regarding NAUTILOS and the services defined and implemented during Task 84 will be organized The tools and services for data management and visualization will be planned and implemented in close connection with endusers requirements

NAUTILOS Project Website

The projects website will be created by M4 and will function at least 2 years after the projects end It will include 1 public area the public area will provide information on the project the consortium the project results including public deliverables etc and KER topic related information news and links past and upcoming events social media links 2 private area to facilitate the dialogue and exchange of information within the consortium hold all the reference documentation that partners will need during the project

Publications

New technology improves our understanding of changes in the marine environment

Author(s): Pieri G., Ntoumas M., Martinelli M., Chatzinikolaou E., Martins F., Novellino A., Dimitrova N., Keller K., King A., Smerdon A., Mazza M., Malardé D., Cocco M., Torres A., Triantafyllou G., Sá S., João Bebianno M., Sparnocchia S., Kristiansen T., Lusher A.
Published in: 9th EuroGOOS International conference, 2021
Publisher: EuroGOOS
DOI: 10.13155/83160

New technology and data collection for improving our understanding of the marine environment

Author(s): Pieri G., Bebianno M., Chatzinikolaou E., Cocco M., Dimitrova L., Fahning J., Geraskova V., João A., King A., Lusher A., Malardé D., Martinelli M., Martins F., Mazza M., Novellino A., Ntoumas M., Sá S., Smerdon A., Triantafyllou G., Torres A.
Published in: International Ocean Data Conference 2022, 2022
Publisher: IODE

New technology improves our understanding of changes in the marine environment

Author(s): Pieri G., Ntoumas M., Martinelli M., Chatzinikolaou E., Martins F., Novellino A., Dimitrova N., Keller K., King A., Smerdon A., Mazza M., Malarde D., Cocco M., Torres A., Triantafyllou G., Sá S., Bebianno M., Kristiansen T., Lusher A.
Published in: EMODnet Open Conference, 2021
Publisher: EMODnet

Mesoscale Patterns Identification through SST Image Processing

Author(s): Marco Reggiannini; João Janeiro; Flávio Martins; Oscar Papini; Gabriele Pieri
Published in: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems - ROBOVIS, 2021, Page(s) 165-172, ISBN 978-989-758-537-1
Publisher: SCITEPRESS
DOI: 10.5220/0010714600003061

The Prodigal Bubble - Celebrating the Return of the Bubble to a Recirculating Suspended Sediment Tower

Author(s): Andrew Smerdon; Dominic A. van der A; Tom O'Donoghue
Published in: Issue 1, 2021
Publisher: Earth and Space Science Open Archive
DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10506170.1

Towards Concept Change Detection in Marine Ecosystems

Author(s): Daniel Lukats, Elmar Berghöfer, Frederic Stahl, Janina Schneider, Daniela Pieck, Mobin M. Idrees, Lars Nolle, Oliver Zielinski
Published in: OCEANS 2021: San Diego – Porto, Issue 20-23 September 2021, 2021, Page(s) 1-10
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/oceans44145.2021.9706015

A mobile crowdsensing app for improved maritime security and awareness

Author(s): Moroni D., Pieri G., Reggiannini M., Tampucci M.
Published in: PERCOM 2022 - IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-1647-4
Publisher: IEEE

Citizen Science for Marine Litter Detection and Classification on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Images

Author(s): Merlino, S.; Paterni, M.; Locritani, M.; Andriolo, U.; Gonçalves, G. and Massetti, L.
Published in: Water, 2021, Page(s) 15, ISSN 2073-4441
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/w13233349

The Use of Saliency in Underwater Computer Vision: A Review

Author(s): Reggiannini, Marco; Moroni, Davide
Published in: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03087582, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2072-4292
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/rs13010022

SST Image Processing for Mesoscale Patterns Identification

Author(s): Oscar Papini; Marco Reggiannini; Gabriele Pieri
Published in: Engineering Proceedings, 2021, ISSN 2673-4591
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/engproc2021008005

Dynamics of Transport, Accumulation, and Export of Plastics at Oceanic Fronts

Author(s): Suaria, G., Berta, M., Griffa, A., Molcard, A., Özgökmen, T.M., Zambianchi, E., Aliani, S.
Published in: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, 2022, Page(s) 1-51
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/698_2021_814

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