Region: South Australia
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Acoustic Observatories
Acoustic Observatories use an array of noise loggers that employ hydrophones moored to the sea floor. These specially designed noise loggers record all underwater noise including sound from natural oceanic processes, animals and man-made sources. This ambient noise provides the ability to detect important underwater events and detect the presence of different fish and mammal…
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Southern Australia Moorings
Southern Australia Moorings is responsible for an array of regional moorings designed to monitor the current systems and biogeochemistry of the South Australian coast. Moorings are currently located at four locations including a shelf mooring off Coffin Bay, eastern Spencer Gulf, upper Spencer Gulf and Gulf St Vincent off Adelaide. Southern Australia Moorings are also…
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Understanding of Marine Imagery
Understanding of Marine Imagery will establish a national repository for annotations of marine imagery, including those collected by IMOS Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. This repository will aid in the sharing of quantitative information and encourage consistencies in annotated labelling and providing tools for summarising and reporting on data relating to species and habitat distributions around Australia.…
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National Reef Monitoring Network
The National Reef Monitoring Network brings together shallow reef surveys conducted around Australia (and globally) into a centralised database. Data Contributors The IMOS National Reef Monitoring Network sub-Facility collates, cleans, stores and makes this data rapidly available from contributors including: Reef Life Survey, and the Australian Temperate Reef Collaboration (a partnership between the University of…
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National Mooring Network
The National Mooring Network is a collection of mooring arrays strategically positioned in Australian coastal waters. The National Mooring Network measures physical and biological parameters, and includes regional arrays of shelf moorings, acidification moorings, acoustic observatories and a network of National Reference Stations that include additional vessel-based sampling. Locations Currently eight National Reference Stations are…
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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles or AUVs are unmanned vehicles that operate independently and under their own power. While very large-scale surface processes can be easily addressed by both remote sensing and ship-borne systems, characterisation of seafloor processes is often unachievable by these traditional methods. AUVs are effective for rapid and cost-effective high-resolution, accurately geo-referenced and targeted…