SBIR Phase I: Fisheries Data Fusion

这一小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目将开发一种渔业生物量评估工具，将机载激光雷达与船载声纳数据融合在一起。预计这将是一种改进的调查技术，扩大渔业调查范围，同时也提高收集的数据的质量。第一阶段将把该系统应用于两个重要的渔业问题：在商业捕捞存在的情况下，濒临灭绝的恒星海狮种群数量下降；以及需要更多的信息来建立鲑鱼的生命周期模型。这两个问题都影响着阿拉斯加和太平洋西北部的数千人的生活。将建立激光雷达和声纳后向散射之间的数学关系。将开发一个原型融合引擎，并利用来自北太平洋的现有数据进行验证。该系统将移植到基于网络的激光雷达-声纳数据融合引擎，用于渔业管理和科学界。将为未来的鱼类调查行动部署实时数据融合引擎。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop a tool for fisheries biomass assessment that fuses airborne LIDAR with ship-borne SONAR data. This is expected to be an improved survey technique that extends a fishery survey area while also increasing the quality of the data that is collected. Phase I will apply the system to two important fisheries issues: the decline of the endangered Stellar Sea Lion population in the presence of commercial fishing; and the need for increased information for salmon life cycle modeling. Both of these issues impact thousands of lives in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest. The mathematical relationship between LIDAR and SONAR backscatter will be established. A prototype fusion engine will be developed and validated on existing data from the North Pacific.The system will be migrated to a web-based prototype LIDAR-SONAR data fusion engine for use in the fisheries management and scientific communities. A real-time data fusion engine will be deployed for future fish survey operations.