Marine Animal Alert System -- Task 2.1.5.3: Development of Monitoring Technologies -- FY 2011 Progress Report

Carlson, Thomas J. ; Deng, Zhiqun ; Myers, Joshua R. ; Matzner, Shari ; Copping, Andrea E.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S.)

关键词: Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories;    99 General And Miscellaneous//Mathematics, Computing, And Information Science;    Cetaceans;    Classification;    Turbines;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1027694
RP-ID  :  PNNL-20812
RP-ID  :  AC05-76RL01830
RP-ID  :  1027694

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The Marine Animal Alert System (MAAS) in development by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is focused on providing elements of compliance monitoring to support deployment of marine hydrokinetic energy devices. An initial focus is prototype tidal turbines to be deployed in Puget Sound in Washington State. The MAAS will help manage the risk of injury or mortality to marine animals from blade strike or contact with tidal turbines. In particular, development has focused on detection, classification, and localization of listed Southern Resident killer whales within 200 m of prototype turbines using both active and passive acoustic approaches. At the close of FY 2011, a passive acoustic system consisting of a pair of four-element star arrays and parallel processing of eight channels of acoustic receptions has been designed and built. Field tests of the prototype system are scheduled for the fourth quarter of calendar year 2011. Field deployment and testing of the passive acoustic prototype is scheduled for the first quarter of FY 2012. The design of an active acoustic system that could be built using commercially available off-the-shelf components from active acoustic system vendors is also in the final stages of design and specification.