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

PI要求资金用于开发自主水面飞行器（ASC） SCOAP，作为材料运输速率和路径的采样平台。在这个项目中，将通过重新设计和改进现有的ASC来开发一个跨学科采样的移动平台（勘测沿海海洋自主剖面仪，SCOAP）。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、固定和移动捕鱼活动以及破坏风险较大的水道中安全海上作业。SCOAP有潜力大大提高沿海海洋学家测量和调查物质运输过程的能力。它可以容纳合适的传感器来检测任何参数，并同时测量来自多个学科的数量，因此将帮助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：更广泛的影响将是一种新的自主多传感器车辆，可以在沿海海域提供长期测量。这项工作有可能开发出一种重要的新工具，用于研究各种海岸过程。该项目包括研究生和本科生进行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.