The Surveying Coastal Ocean Autonomous Profiler (SCOAP): Development and Demonstration

PI要求提供资金，以开发一个自主表面工艺（ASC）SCOAP作为材料运输速率和路径的采样平台。在该项目中，将通过重新设计和加强现有的ASC，开发一个用于跨学科采样的移动的平台（沿海海洋自主剖面测量仪）。这些改进包括最大限度地提高其适航性，延长无人值守部署的持续时间，并使其能够在船舶交通繁忙、固定和移动的捕鱼活动以及破坏风险的水道中安全地进行海上作业。SCOAP有可能大大提高沿海海洋学家测量和调查物质迁移过程的能力。它可以安装合适的传感器来检测任何参数，并同时测量多个学科的数量，因此将有助于来自不同专业领域的海洋学家整合他们的研究。 更广泛的影响将是一种新的自主多传感器车辆，可以在沿海海洋中提供长期测量。这项工作有可能为研究各种沿海过程开发一个重要的新工具。该项目包括研究生和本科生的工程开发和实地工作。

The PI requests funding to develop an autonomous surface craft (ASC) SCOAP as a sampling platform for material transport rates and pathways. In this project a mobile platform for interdisciplinary sampling (the Surveying Coastal Ocean Autonomous Profiler, SCOAP) will be developed by redesigning and enhancing an available ASC. The enhancements include maximizing its seaworthiness, lengthening the duration of unattended deployments, and making it capable of safe marine operations in waterways with heavy vessel traffic, fixed and mobile fishing activity, and vandalism risks. SCOAP has potential to substantially advance the ability of coastal oceanographers to measure and investigate material transport processes. It can host suitable sensors to detect any parameter, and simultaneously measures quantities from multiple disciplines, so will help oceanographers from different areas of expertise integrate their studies.Broader Impacts: The broader impacts would be a new autonomous multi-sensor vehicle that can provide long-term measurements in the coastal ocean. This effort has the potential to develop a significant new tool for studying a variety of coastal processes. The project includes graduate and undergraduate students for the engineering development and field work.