Year of grant:
2020

Research Area:
Náttúruvísindi & tøkni

Project type:
Ph.d.-verkætlan

Project title:
Viðgerð av mátiúrslitunum frá fleiri fleirstrálaðum ekkóloddinum til nýtslu í alivinnuni.

Grant number:
0460

Project manager:
Jóhannus Kristmundsson

Institution/company:
Fiskaaling

Other participants:
Dr. Qin Xin Full Professor of Computer Science, University of the Faroe Islands, Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Liverpool Co Supervisors: Dr. John Robert Potter IEEE Fellow; Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Ph.D in Glaciology and Oceanography Dr. Øystein patursson Managing Director of RAO, Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering from the Univer sity of New Hampshire Signar Pæturssonur Dam Biological Developer, P/F Luna Jan Hammer Egholm Managing Director of Vikmar

Project period:
Planned: 01.09.2020 - 30.08.2023
Actual: 01.09.2020 - 29.02.2024

Total budget:
kr. 2.863.592

Grant from the FRC in DKK:
kr. 930.000

Project description:
Original
Aquaculture food production grows faster than other major food production sectors, and in the Faroe Islands, salmon accounts for nearly half of the countries export value. In order to to keep up width the global trend, fish-farming in the Faroe Islands has moved from sheltered locations, to more exposed farming sites. Understanding the behaviour of fish-farming equipment and their inhabitants at exposed sites is important for ensuring fish welfare, and by extension, profits. Measurement equipment and methods make used today make it difficult to obtain an accurate description of the cage and the fish distribution and movement, since the cages are very large and in exposed sites are subject to large deflections and deformations. Typical Sonars have a comparatively high range, compared to optical cameras, but lack the ability to measure in different direction. Multibeam sonars allow for spatial information of its surroundings to be gathered, but suffer from side-lobe interference at distances longer than the distance to large surfaces, such as the water surface. This issue, can largely be mitigated by using multiple multibeam sonars, running in a multistatic configuration. The aim of this project is to develop a multistatic multibeam system and methods to collect and extract spatial information about the extent of the cage, and the distribution of the biomass within. These methods can be used to get a better understanding of the behaviour of fish farming equipment and its inhabitants.

Final
This project, titled “Multistatic Multibeam Signal Processing Approaches with Applications in Fish Farming,” was conducted from September 1, 2020, to February 29, 2024, culminating in the award of a Ph.D. to Jóhannus Kristmundsson. The research focused on improving observation methods for salmon in offshore farming cages, achieving significant advancements in aquaculture monitoring technology.

Project status:
Liðug

Project output:
For results from this project, see PURE

Storage and access rights to collected data
The data used in this project is open access, provided by IEEE DataPort



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