The PLOME project has tested new technologies that will allow the deployment of stations and vehicles to monitor the marine environment and provide real-time data. The experiments have been conducted along the Catalan coast at depths of up to 350 meters. The project is led by the University of Girona, with participation from the UPC, […]
The Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus) is one of the most important fishery items for the EU blue economy. The coopearation between ICM-CSIC and UiB allowed the elaboration of a software architecture based on YOLOv5, to identify and count Nephrops and estimate the numbers of its individuals per m2 (i.e., stock density) in deep-sea (350-380 m
The blue economy is a relatively recent concept that we could define as the economy that recognizes the importance of the seas and oceans as drivers of the economy due to their great potential for innovation and growth. This year, PLOME members participated in one activity organized in Catalonia called the “Blue Economy Marketplace”. It
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The week of July 24 to 28, 2023, the first campaign at sea took place, more specifically in Cala del Vigatà in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, where several of the project partners, in this case, UdG, UPM, IQUA Robotics and UPC carried out the first tests of the different developments of the project to verify
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El pasado 19 y 20 de junio 2023 tuvo lugar la conferencia Marine Technology Workshop, http://martech-workshop.org/, en la Universitat Jaume I (UJI) en Castelló, evento co-organizado por el CIRTESU y el grupo SARTI de la UPC. Varios participantes del proyecto PLOME asistieron a la conferencia para mostrar las actividades realizadas en el proyecto. Más concretamente
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From June 5 to 8, Limerick, Ireland hosted the highly anticipated Oceans 2023 conference, attracting ocean enthusiasts from around the world. The event provided an exceptional platform for members of the PLOME consortium, including UdG, UIB, UPC, UPM, ICM, and Iqua, to showcase their remarkable works related to the project. Not only did the conference
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During the month of March several functional tests were carried out to integrate the Middleware in the AUVs to perform range measurements. The tests were carried out at sea by the UPG team and the results were totally satisfactory. The Middleware has also been improved and the commands to exchange information between devices have been
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From 7/03/2023 to 10/03/2023 the Marine Robotics team of the Systems, Robotics and Vision group (University of the Balearic Islands) has carried out the last data gathering campaign in the Cabrera Maritime and Terrestrial National Park, corresponding to the projects INVHALI and DETECPOS, both shared with IMEDEA. The project INVHALI is focused on the detection
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Photo by: IQUA Robotics IQUA robotics (IQUA) is one of the most recently created spin off companies of the University of Girona. Founded in 2016, IQUA is devoted to the design, development, manufacture and commercialization of underwater observation technologies. Being the sole industrial partner in PLOME, the company is intensive in R&D and aims to
An assessment of the technological requirements has been carried out for ecological monitoring, in marine protected areas of a fishery resource relevant to the European Community, the Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus THE NAME IN ITALICS!). We propose that state-of-the-art fixed and mobile equipment, such as robotics platforms (autonomous underwater vehicles, crawlers, and biomimetic legged robots), equipped
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