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The primary objective of this project is to partially develop (using already proven technologies) and demonstrate an aerial platform for offshore fish farm monitoring.
With this project, the technology readiness of the proposed approach as well as the relevance and cost saving effects of having a stationary environmental surveillance and monitorization platform that can provide remote surveillance of an offshore fish farm with significant gains in the operational results of such production units will be demonstrated.
The proposed project will consiste on developing the high altitude platform from Omnidea to accomodate the wide range of sensor that will enable remote monitoring of offshore fishfarms following a standard aproach of project development, defining: systems requirements, systems architecture, platform development, assembly integration and system testing and finally the operational tests.
Using Omnidea’s extensive experience on stationary aerial platforms, it is envisioned, within the scope of this project, to develop an effective monitoring tool that can support the offshore fish farm’s and port monitoring needs and its aims:
- improve accuracy, precision and repeatability in farming operations and port traffic control;
- facilitate more autonomous and continuous biomass/animal monitoring;
- provide more reliable decision support;
- reduce dependencies on manual labor and subjective assessments, and thus improve staff safety.
This project will be developed by Omnidea, a Portuguese SME, Omnidea AS a Norwegian startup, and CEiiA and NORCE, respectively a Portuguese and Norwegian research institutes, therefore contributing to the enhancement of bi-lateral relationships between the EU and the donor countries, both on and entrepreneurial and science development components.