An unmanned surface vehicle for large scale acoustic monitoring

Abstract

Unmanned systems are finding new applications in ocean data collection or marine fauna monitoring. Their utilization is not always possible, but when this approach is viable, it offers important benefits in terms of campaign duration, costs, repeatability and safety (Verfuss et al, 2019). This contribution presents a novel autonomous surface vehicle and its utilization as a relocatable acoustic receiver for detecting angelsharks and spiny butterfly ray exemplars tagged with acoustic emitters.