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European Multidisciplinary and Water-Column Observatory - European Research Infrastructure Consortium (EMSO ERIC): Challenges and opportunities for Strategic European Marine Sciences
EMSO (European Multidisciplinary
Seafloor and water-column Observatory,
www.emso-eu.org) is a large-scale European
Research Infrastructure I. It is a distributed
infrastructure of strategically placed, deep-sea
seafloor and water column observatory nodes
with the essential scientific objective of real-time,
long-term observation of environmental processes
related to the interaction between the geosphere,
biosphere, and hydrosphere. The geographic
locations of the EMSO observatory nodes
represent key sites in European waters, from the
Arctic, through the Atlantic and Mediterranean,
to the Black Sea (Figure 1), as defined through
previous studies performed in FP6 and FP7 EC
projects such as ESONET-CA, ESONET-NoE,
EMSO-PP (Person et al., 2015).Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version
The Hierarchic treatment of marine ecological information from spatial networks of benthic platforms
Measuring biodiversity simultaneously in different locations, at different temporal scales, and over wide spatial scales is of strategic importance for the improvement of our understanding of the functioning of marine ecosystems and for the conservation of their biodiversity. Monitoring networks of cabled observatories, along with other docked autonomous systems (e.g., Remotely Operated Vehicles [ROVs], Autonomous Underwater Vehicles [AUVs], and crawlers), are being conceived and established at a spatial scale capable of tracking energy fluxes across benthic and pelagic compartments, as well as across geographic ecotones. At the same time, optoacoustic imaging is sustaining an unprecedented expansion in marine ecological monitoring, enabling the acquisition of new biological and environmental data at an appropriate spatiotemporal scale. At this stage, one of the main problems for an effective application of these technologies is the processing, storage, and treatment of the acquired complex ecological information. Here, we provide a conceptual overview on the technological developments in the multiparametric generation, storage, and automated hierarchic treatment of biological and environmental information required to capture the spatiotemporal complexity of a marine ecosystem. In doing so, we present a pipeline of ecological data acquisition and processing in different steps and prone to automation. We also give an example of population biomass, community richness and biodiversity data computation (as indicators for ecosystem functionality) with an Internet Operated Vehicle (a mobile crawler). Finally, we discuss the software requirements for that automated data processing at the level of cyber-infrastructures with sensor calibration and control, data banking, and ingestion into large data portals.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version
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A review of miniaturised Non-Destructive Testing technologies for in-situ inspections
Non-destructive testing (NDT) techniques have become attractive trends of product manufacturing, installation and post-maintenance in the aerospace, automotive and manufacturing industry, because of its benefits such as cost saving, easy to use and high efficiency etc. With the industrial products becoming large-scale, high integration and complication, developing the NDT miniaturisation technique for in-situ inspections is highly demanded and becoming an inevitable trend. However, in-situ inspection using NDT have been limited by a number of factors, such as the heavy weight, large size or complex structure etc. This paper aims to systematically identify and analyse the current state-of-the-art of NDT miniaturisation techniques in research and innovation, and discuss the challenge and prospect of miniaturisation of the commonly used NDT techniques
Advancing Climate Change Research and Hydrocarbon Leak Detection : by Combining Dissolved Carbon Dioxide and Methane Measurements with ADCP Data
With the emergence of largescale, comprehensive environmental monitoring projects, there is an increased need to combine state-of-the art technologies to address complicated problems such as ocean acidifi cation and hydrocarbon leak
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European Multidisciplinary and Water-Column Observatory - European Research Infrastructure Consortium (EMSO ERIC): challenges and opportunities for strategic European marine sciences
EMSO (European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-column Observatory,
www.emso-eu.org) is a largeâscale European Research Infrastructure I. It
is a distributed infrastructure of strategically placed, deepâsea seafloor and water
column observatory nodes with the essential scientific objective of realâtime, longterm
observation of environmental processes related to the interaction between the
geosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere. The geographic locations of the EMSO observatory
nodes represent key sites in European waters, from the Arctic, through the
Atlantic and Mediterranean, to the Black Sea (Figure 1), as defined through previous
studies performed in FP6 and FP7 EC projects such as ESONETâCA, ESONETâNoE,
EMSO-PP (Person et al., 2015)Peer Reviewe
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