FleetLink: Data Acquisition from Fishing Vessels

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FleetLink Data Acquisition from Fishing
Vessels

• Presented at the COOA
• Monthly Meeting
• A.C. Bucklin, G. Williams, R.C. Groman, P.H.
  Wiebe
• October 6, 2004

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Premise

• The widespread temporal and spatial
  distribution of commercial fishing vessels makes
  them ideal platforms from which to gather basic
  information for coastal monitoring, modeling, and
  prediction.

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Approach

• A partnership of commercial fishermen,
  entrepreneurs, researchers, educators, and
  federal agency representatives

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SusanCaitlan
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Participants

• Bucklin, A. UNH
• Commercial Non-Commercial Vessels
• Anderson, E. F/V Kris N Kev
• Leary, M. F/V Lori B
• McLellan, C. F/V Adventurer
• Pendleton, M. F/V SusanCaitlyn
• UNH, R/V Gulf Challenger
• WHOI, R/V Tioga
• Williams, G. Clearwater Instrumentation, Inc.
• Groman, R. WHOI
• Wiebe, P. - WHOI

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Long Term Goal

• One hundred or more fully-instrumented
  fishing vessels, which provide enhanced
  oceanographic and meteorological data collection
  capacity for coastal and offshore areas
  throughout the NW Atlantic.

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Initial DevelopmentBegan in 1998

• On-board PC and Wheelhouse software (MIT)
• Serial interfaces to sea surface temperature and
  meteorological sensors (Clearwater
  Instrumentation)
• Telemetry to WHOI data server (WHOI)

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Current Efforts

• Garys presentation.

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Web Accessible

• Uses JGOFS/GLOBEC data management system
• www.fleetlink.net
• Supports plotting and downloading

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Sample Data

• Captains comments
• Data
• Plotting via Plotting and other options button

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