SBIR Phase II: Sonar Arrays for Maximizing Aquaculture Yields

这一小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目的广泛影响改善了对虾水产养殖的养殖实践。在渔业和海洋生态领域，虾经常沦为更具商业价值的种群的猎物。这项拟议的技术提高了养虾户的财务安全，确保了粮食安全，并减轻了野生种群的压力。拟议的项目提供了跨地区对虾生物量和行为的标准化实时估计。有了强大的处理，这就产生了一个良好集成的水产养殖监测系统。虽然实验室实验对于了解虾在受控环境下的生长和发育很有价值，但它们也是有限的，水产养殖研究是最不可靠和可用的。水产养殖提供研究的受控环境是一种未开发的资源，因为数据没有在池塘、地区或国家之间标准化。通过提供数据标准化的机制，建议的平台为从事野生渔业和水产养殖的科学界提供有价值的数据，并向研究以外的水产养殖实践提供信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project improves cultivation practices for shrimp aquaculture. Within the field of fisheries and marine ecology, shrimp is often reduced to a prey species for more commercially valuable stocks. The proposed technology improves financial security for shrimp farmers, ensures food security, and reduces pressure on wild stocks. The proposed project provides standardized real-time estimates of shrimp biomass and behavior across regions. With robust processing, this produces a well-integrated system for aquaculture monitoring. While lab experiments are valued for understanding shrimp growth and development in a controlled setting, they too are limited, with aquaculture research being the least robust and available. The controlled setting that aquaculture offers research is an untapped resource because the data are not standardized across ponds, regions, or countries. By providing a mechanism for data standardization the proposed platform contributes valuable data to the scientific community working in wild fisheries and in aquaculture, and informs aquaculture practice beyond research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.