Project description
Innovative ocean observation technologies
The pollution of our oceans with plastics and other anthropogenic waste represents a threat to human activities such as fisheries and aquaculture. As a consequence, advanced ocean observation technologies are urgently needed. The EU-funded TechOceanS project will develop and demonstrate through several underwater vehicles nine pioneering technologies for ocean biology, chemistry and plastics monitoring. The novel solutions comprise five sensors, two imaging systems targeting seabed and pelagic biology and plastics, a sampler that will collect 1 000 particle samples and a new AI-based image processing method for data compression and information transmission. An in situ analyser for nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) and lab-on-a-chip sensors will quantify species and genes and sense nutrients, carbonate essential ocean variables, organic contaminants and toxins as well as microorganisms and microplastics.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologycivil engineeringwater engineeringocean engineering
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiology
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculesnucleic acids
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeochemistrybiogeochemistry
- social scienceslaw
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
IA-LS - Innovation action Lump Sum
Coordinator
SO14 3ZH Southampton
United Kingdom
Participants (13)
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