TOSSIT: A low-cost, hand deployable, rope-less and acoustically silent mooring for underwater passive acoustic monitoring
Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) has been used to study the ocean for decades across several fields to answer biological, geological and meteorological questions such as marine mammal presence, measures of anthropogenic noise in the ocean, and monitoring and prediction of underwater earthquakes and...
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| author | Daniel P. Zitterbart Alessandro Bocconcelli Miles Ochs Julien Bonnel |
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| description | Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) has been used to study the ocean for decades across several fields to answer biological, geological and meteorological questions such as marine mammal presence, measures of anthropogenic noise in the ocean, and monitoring and prediction of underwater earthquakes and tsunamis.While in previous decades the high cost of acoustic instruments limited its use, miniaturization and microprocessor advances dramatically reduced the cost for passive acoustic monitoring instruments making PAM available for a broad scientific community. Such low-cost devices are often deployed by divers or on mooring lines with a surface buoy, which limit their use to diving depth and coastal regions.Here, we present a low-cost, low self-noise and hand-deployable PAM mooring design, called TOSSIT. It can be used in water as deep as 500 m, and can be deployed and recovered by hand by a single operator (more comfortably with two) in a small boat. The TOSSIT modular mooring system consists of a light and strong non-metallic frame that can fit a variety of sensors including PAM instruments, acoustic releases, additional power packages, environmental parameter sensors. The TOSSIT’s design is rope-less, which removes any risk of entanglement and keeps the self-noise very low. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6521e4fb4137424da24ff338d85ad5852022-12-22T03:36:21ZengElsevierHardwareX2468-06722022-04-0111e00304TOSSIT: A low-cost, hand deployable, rope-less and acoustically silent mooring for underwater passive acoustic monitoringDaniel P. Zitterbart0Alessandro Bocconcelli1Miles Ochs2Julien Bonnel3Corresponding author.; Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USAApplied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USAApplied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USAApplied Ocean Physics and Engineering Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USAPassive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) has been used to study the ocean for decades across several fields to answer biological, geological and meteorological questions such as marine mammal presence, measures of anthropogenic noise in the ocean, and monitoring and prediction of underwater earthquakes and tsunamis.While in previous decades the high cost of acoustic instruments limited its use, miniaturization and microprocessor advances dramatically reduced the cost for passive acoustic monitoring instruments making PAM available for a broad scientific community. Such low-cost devices are often deployed by divers or on mooring lines with a surface buoy, which limit their use to diving depth and coastal regions.Here, we present a low-cost, low self-noise and hand-deployable PAM mooring design, called TOSSIT. It can be used in water as deep as 500 m, and can be deployed and recovered by hand by a single operator (more comfortably with two) in a small boat. The TOSSIT modular mooring system consists of a light and strong non-metallic frame that can fit a variety of sensors including PAM instruments, acoustic releases, additional power packages, environmental parameter sensors. The TOSSIT’s design is rope-less, which removes any risk of entanglement and keeps the self-noise very low.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067222000499Ocean ambient noiseMooring systemsSoundscapeUnderwater soundBioacousticsOceanography |
| spellingShingle | Daniel P. Zitterbart Alessandro Bocconcelli Miles Ochs Julien Bonnel TOSSIT: A low-cost, hand deployable, rope-less and acoustically silent mooring for underwater passive acoustic monitoring HardwareX Ocean ambient noise Mooring systems Soundscape Underwater sound Bioacoustics Oceanography |
| title | TOSSIT: A low-cost, hand deployable, rope-less and acoustically silent mooring for underwater passive acoustic monitoring |
| title_full | TOSSIT: A low-cost, hand deployable, rope-less and acoustically silent mooring for underwater passive acoustic monitoring |
| title_fullStr | TOSSIT: A low-cost, hand deployable, rope-less and acoustically silent mooring for underwater passive acoustic monitoring |
| title_full_unstemmed | TOSSIT: A low-cost, hand deployable, rope-less and acoustically silent mooring for underwater passive acoustic monitoring |
| title_short | TOSSIT: A low-cost, hand deployable, rope-less and acoustically silent mooring for underwater passive acoustic monitoring |
| title_sort | tossit a low cost hand deployable rope less and acoustically silent mooring for underwater passive acoustic monitoring |
| topic | Ocean ambient noise Mooring systems Soundscape Underwater sound Bioacoustics Oceanography |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468067222000499 |
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