Repository of community practices in Ocean Research, Applications and Data/Information Management
Browsing Miscellaneous Community Practices by Subject "Data acquisition"
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Accurate oxygen measurements on modified Argo floats using in situ air calibrations.
(2016)Oxygen is an important tracer for biological processes in the ocean. Measuring changes in oxygen over annual cycles provides information about photosynthesis and respiration and their impact on the carbon cycle. Long-term, ... -
Animal Borne Ocean Sensors – AniBOS – An Essential Component of the Global Ocean Observing System.
(2021)Marine animals equipped with biological and physical electronic sensors have produced long-term data streams on key marine environmental variables, hydrography, animal behavior and ecology. These data are an essential ... -
Assessing data quality in citizen science.
(2016)Ecological and environmental citizen-science projects have enormous potential to advance scientific knowledge, influence policy, and guide resource management by producing datasets that would otherwise be infeasible to ... -
Autonomous Optofluidic Chemical Analyzers for Marine Applications: Insights from the Submersible Autonomous Moored Instruments (SAMI) for pH and pCO2.
(2018)The commercial availability of inexpensive fiber optics and small volume pumps in the early 1990’s provided the components necessary for the successful development of low power, low reagent consumption, autonomous ... -
Best practice guidelines for cetacean tagging.
(2019)Animal-borne electronic instruments (tags) are valuable tools for collecting information on cetacean physiology, behaviour and ecology, and for enhancing conservation and management policies for cetacean populations. Tags ... -
Best practice in seabed image analysis for determining taxa, habitat, or substrata distributions.
(Ministry for Primary Industries, Wellington, N.Z., 2020)This is a review of seabed imaging survey methods and their application in New Zealand, focusing on the deep sea and covering the fields of image acquisition, data extraction from imagery, and data management. The potential ... -
Best Practices for Increasing Data Return: Case Study From Indian Ocean Observation Network
(2019)Sustained real-time ocean observation systems using moored data buoys are vital for understanding ocean dynamics and variability, which are essential for improving oceanographic services including weather prediction, ... -
Citizen science for monitoring seasonal‑scale beach erosion and behaviour with aerial drones.
(2021)Sandy beaches are highly dynamic systems which provide natural protection from the impact of waves to coastal communities. With coastal erosion hazards predicted to increase globally, data to inform decision making on ... -
A comparison of three methods for estimating call densities of migrating bowhead whales using passive acoustic monitoring.
(2022)Various methods for estimating animal density from visual data, including distance sampling (DS) and spatially explicit capture-recapture (SECR), have recently been adapted for estimating call density using passive ... -
Comparison of three quick methods to estimate crab size in the land crabs Cardisoma guanhumi Latreille, 1825 and Ucides cordatus (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae and Ucididae).
(2012)Quick, reliable and non destructive methods are necessary to estimate size structure on commercial land crabs, in order to acquire relevant information concerning the health of their populations. Cardisoma guanhumi and ... -
Conventional sampling methods severely underestimate phytoplankton species richness.
(2014)Conventional methods for the estimation of marine phytoplankton diversity include the collection of a small volume of seawater which is analysed under the microscope. We sampled natural communities and also synthetic ... -
Designing a Large Scale Autonomous Observing Network: A Set Theory Approach.
(2022)A well designed observing network is vital to improve our understanding of the oceans and to obtain better predictions of the future. As autonomous marine technology develops, the potential for deploying large autonomous ... -
Distance Sampling in R.
(2019)Estimating the abundance and spatial distribution of animal and plant populations is essential for conservation and management. We introduce the R package Distance that implements distance sampling methods to estimate ... -
Divers as Citizen Scientists: Response Time, Accuracy and Precision of Water Temperature Measurement Using Dive Computers.
(2021)There is a lack of depth-resolved temperature data, especially in coastal areas, which are often commonly dived by SCUBA divers. Many case studies have demonstrated that citizen science can provide high quality data, ... -
Environmental DNA applications in biomonitoring and bioassessment of aquatic ecosystems: Guidelines.
(Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), Bern, Switzerland, 2020)Aquatic biomonitoring is currently transformed by environmental DNA (eDNA) based approaches. These new tools overcome some limitations of traditional biomonitoring and allow non-invasive sampling, broad taxonomic coverage, ... -
Evaluating benthic flux measurements from a gradient flux system.
(2022)Multiple methods exist to measure the benthic flux of dissolved oxygen (DO), but many are limited by short deployments and provide only a snapshot of the processes occurring at the sediment–water interface. The gradient flux ... -
Extraction and quantification of microphytobenthic Chl a within calcareous reef sands.
(2014)Calcareous reef sands are characterized by high concentrations of photosynthetic pigments that extend well below the sediment surface, as well as by high variability in concentrations between study sites. An important ... -
Fishing Gear as a Data Collection Platform: Opportunities to Fill Spatial and Temporal Gaps in Operational Sub-Surface Observation Networks.
(2020)While the observation of the open ocean is well achieved by automated ocean measurement instruments, coastal and shelf seas suffer the lack of sub-surface collection platforms. Commercial fishing gear such as bottom ... -
Handbook of Survey Methodology Plastics Leakage (developed for CSIRO Global Plastic Pollution Baseline Project). Version 1.4.
(CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Canberra, Australia, 2020)We are using field sampling to measure, and mathematical modelling to estimate, the distribution and movement of plastic waste near urban centres, along waterways, on the coastline and in the ocean. We are designing robust ... -
iFDO Creation Version 1.0.0. and Supplement, Version 1.0.0.
(MareHub of the Helmholtz Association, 2021)The purpose of this Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is to document the necessary steps to create FAIR Digital Objects for images (iFDOs) containing standardized metadata for marine research images (photos and videos). The ...
