KOSMOS: An Open Source Underwater Video Lander for Monitoring Coastal Fishes and Habitats.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Monitoring the ecological status of coastal ecosystems is essential to track the consequences of anthropogenic pressures and assess conservation actions. Monitoring requires periodic measurements collected in situ, replicated over large areas and able to capture their spatial distribution over time. This means developing tools and protocols that are cost-effective and provide consistent and high-quality data, which is a major challenge. A new tool and protocol with these capabilities for non-extractively assessing the status of fishes and benthic habitats is presented here: the KOSMOS 3.0 underwater video system.

Methods

The KOSMOS 3.0 was conceived based on the pre-existing and successful STAVIRO lander, and developed within a digital fabrication laboratory where

SUBMITTER: Pelletier D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8619907 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature