The uROV PICASSO, the Visual Plankton Recorder, and other attempts to image plankton

Author

Lindsay, D. ; Yoshida, Hiroyuki ; Ishibashi, Shojiro ; Umetsu, M. ; Yamaguchi, Akira ; Yamamoto, Hiroshi ; Nishikawa, J. ; Reimer, J. Davis ; Watanabe, Hiromi ; Fujikura, K. ; Maruyama, Tetsuhiro

Author_Institution

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Sci. & Technol. (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

5-8 March 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A recently developed untethered but remotely operated survey platform, the PICASSO system, is described. This vehicle was designed specifically for surveys of macro- and megazooplankton and marine particulates (maximum depth 1000 m), to link information on gelatinous zooplankton diversity, behaviour and community structure with their function as packagers and producers of marine snow. In addition, an autonomous Visual Plankton Recorder, which is also deployable on the PICASSO vehicle, has been used to investigate particle profiles and plankton distribution vs. depth. Some results from these two systems from eastern Antarctica, the Coral Sea in Australia, and off Japan are introduced. Other techniques for imaging plankton in three dimensions are also introduced.

Keywords

autonomous underwater vehicles; oceanographic equipment; seafloor phenomena; Australia; Coral Sea; Japan; PICASSO system; PICASSO vehicle; Visual Plankton Recorder; community structure; eastern Antarctica; gelatinous zooplankton diversity; macro-zooplankton; marine particulates; marine snow; megazooplankton; plankton distribution; plankton imaging; remotely operated survey platform; uROV PICASSO; Calibration; Cameras; Lighting; Size measurement; Snow; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Underwater Technology Symposium (UT), 2013 IEEE International

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5948-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UT.2013.6519854

Filename

6519854