Development of a Towed Survey System for Deployment by the Fishing Industry

Abstract

After two generations of development, we have completed 3 practical digital imaging system towed by 3 commercial scallop fishing vessel, that delivers high resolution contiguous overlapping still images to the computer system on the vessel bridge for storage, immediate viewing and onboard image processing. This non-invasive, high resolution survey of benthic habitat is intended to provide fisherman, fisheries, managers and others with information vital to accumulate scallop population density estimates and substrate characterization within surveyed areas of the continental shelf.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA493595

Entities

People

  • Andrew Girard
  • Chris Griner
  • Hanumant Singh
  • Jonathan Howland
  • Lane Abrams
  • Norman Vine
  • Richard Taylor
  • Scott Gallager

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cameras
  • Classification
  • Computer Vision
  • Digital Communications
  • Habitats
  • Image Processing
  • Instrumentation
  • Junction Boxes
  • Power Supplies
  • Seabed
  • Slip Rings
  • Software Development
  • Standards
  • Supervised Machine Learning
  • Telemetry
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Oceanography.