Developing an acoustic tag with bidirectional communications capabilities

The study of marine animal behaviour is crucial to manage fsheries stocks and to understand the climate change efect on them, especially their moving patterns. In order to achieve that, diferent methods have been developed during the last years, specially using acoustic tags. However, all the tags a...

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Autores: Masmitjà Rusiñol, Ivan|||0000-0001-6355-7955, Gomáriz Castro, Spartacus|||0000-0001-9765-2176, Bouvet, Pierre-Jean, Aguzzi, Jacopo, Río Fernández, Joaquín del|||0000-0002-6191-2201
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/360397
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/360397
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Underwater acoustics
Autonomous vehicles
Ocean bottom
Acoustic tag
Tagged animals
Underwater target localization
Autonomous vehicle
Acoustics
Acústica submarina
Vehicles autònoms
Fons marins
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Física::Acústica::Sons subaquàtics
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Processament del senyal::Processament de la parla i del senyal acústic
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Sumario:The study of marine animal behaviour is crucial to manage fsheries stocks and to understand the climate change efect on them, especially their moving patterns. In order to achieve that, diferent methods have been developed during the last years, specially using acoustic tags. However, all the tags available nowadays are transmitters, and therefore, can only be used as a “listen method”. Here, we present a new acoustic tag with bidirectional communications capabilities (i.e. can transmit and also receive acoustic signals). This approach will allow the possibility to use new techniques to study marine animals (e.g. range-only and singe-beacon methods with autonomous vehicles), and therefore, increase the knowledge of their behaviour.