Enhancing the Scientific Value of Industry Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) in Our Oceans
Enhancing the Scientific Value of Industry Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) in Our Oceans
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提高海洋工业遥控潜水器 (ROV) 的科学价值
DOI：
10.3389/fmars.2020.00220
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发表时间：
2020-04-15
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Jones, Daniel O. B.
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作者：
McLean, Dianne L.;Parsons, Miles J. G.;Jones, Daniel O. B.
遥控潜水器（ROV）被海上石油和天然气以及可再生能源行业广泛用于检查，维护和维修其基础设施。从浅水到水深超过1,000米的世界海洋中有数千个水下结构受到监测，因此它们的科学用途有很大但未得到充分利用的机会。通过对水下机器人操作的轻微修改，并通过为工业工人级ROV增加一系列科学设备，工业可以推动科学发现，有助于了解人工结构对海洋的影响，并收集生物和非生物数据，以支持我们对海洋和海洋生物如何变化的理解。在这里，我们确定并描述了操作上可行的方法，以调整工业ROV的操作方式，以提高它们收集的数据的科学价值，而不会显著影响调度或增加部署成本。其中包括：快速海洋生物调查协议、改进成像、增加一系列科学传感器和收集生物样本。通过与合格和经验丰富的研究科学家合作，行业可以提高其ROV衍生数据的质量，从而使数据得到可靠的分析。现在，工业界的微小变化可以为科学研究提供长期的实质性好处，并在结构需要退役时提高现有科学数据的质量。这些变化也有可能通过改善环境管理和促进与包括监管机构和公众在内的一系列外部利益攸关方进行更知情的接触，加强行业的环境管理。
Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are used extensively by the offshore oil and gas and renewables industries for inspection, maintenance, and repair of their infrastructure. With thousands of subsea structures monitored across the world's oceans from the shallows to depths greater than 1,000 m, there is a great and underutilized opportunity for their scientific use. Through slight modifications of ROV operations, and by augmenting industry workclass ROVs with a range of scientific equipment, industry can fuel scientific discoveries, contribute to an understanding of the impact of artificial structures in our oceans, and collect biotic and abiotic data to support our understanding of how oceans and marine life are changing. Here, we identify and describe operationally feasible methods to adjust the way in which industry ROVs are operated to enhance the scientific value of data that they collect, without significantly impacting scheduling or adding to deployment costs. These include: rapid marine life survey protocols, imaging improvements, the addition of a range of scientific sensors, and collection of biological samples. By partnering with qualified and experienced research scientists, industry can improve the quality of their ROV-derived data, allowing the data to be analyzed robustly. Small changes by industry now could provide substantial benefits to scientific research in the long-term and improve the quality of scientific data in existence once the structures require decommissioning. Such changes also have the potential to enhance industry's environmental stewardship by improving their environmental management and facilitating more informed engagement with a range of external stakeholders, including regulators and the public.