Scripps Technical Forum

Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary AUV Trials – Surveying Reefs, Wrecks, and Debris

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DateFriday, October 18, 2019 | 12:00 PM

Jon Fajans, Xylem Analytics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

You are invited to attend a presentation by Xylem covering data products collected by the IVER3 and I3EXO Ecomapper AUVs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and other locations.  These data products are examples of how an AUV can support multiple missions as collected by an end user and brought into various data acquisition platforms:

Coral health and monitoring
Tagged animal location and tracking
Damage assessment - coral reef
Damage assessment - seagrass
Invasive Species recovery
Post Storm navigation channel survey
Water Quality and harmful algal blooms
Cultural resource and marine archaeology (ID, documentation, monitoring)
Marine debris and ghost trap location and identification

NOAA FKNMS


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