SMART environmental multi-physics sensor monitoring using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) systems

它与《海洋证据摘要》相联系。本文档指出，我们对某些受保护特性的分布了解不够。海港鼠海豚是生境指令附件II的物种，虽然我们已指定保护区内的海港鼠海豚，但我们并没有这些地区的小规模使用数据。对于一些栖息地和物种来说，这也是一个积极研究和争论的领域，但目前还没有针对港湾鼠海豚。这个项目还可以帮助我们评估cSACs中人为水下噪音的水平，这是我们知识的另一个空白。系统将在船上的电子设备或通过流数据来监测海港鼠海豚的发声事件，但也会持续监测背景和人为噪声源。这可能包括长期平均值，例如第三个八度频带和/或事件驱动的人为噪声，例如过往船舶或打桩。例如，这些数据可以直接输入MSFD的良好环境状态描述符。目标是从每次部署中收集和恢复所有这些数据，从而有可能对自然和人为声音对海洋环境的贡献进行长期空间抽样。需要更多的信息来帮助NE向监管机构提供更好的基于证据的保护建议，并解释环境声明中的主张，以回应案例工作。

It links with the Marine Summary of Evidence. This document states that we do not know enough about the distribution of some protected features. Harbour porpoise are a Habitats Directive Annex II species, and while we have designated cSACs for their protection, we do not have any data on the fine scale use of these areas. This is also an area subject to active research and debate for several habitats and species, but not currently for harbour porpoise. This project may also help us to assess the levels of anthropogenic underwater noise in the cSACs, another gap in our knowledge. Systems would be developed in either the on-board electronics or via streamed data to monitor for harbour porpoise vocalization events but also continuously monitor background and anthropogenic noise sources. This may include long term averages for example in third octave bands and/ or event driven anthropogenic noise such as passing shipping or piling. These data could for example feed directly into MSFD descriptors 11 for Good Environmental Status. The aim would be for all of these data to be captured and recovered from each deployment allowing the potential for long term spatial sampling of natural and anthropogenic sound contributions into the marine environment.More information is required to help NE give better evidence-based conservation advice to regulators and interpret assertions made within Environmental Statements to respond to casework.