Real-time Visual Analytics for Aquaculture

考虑到全球对我们共同食物来源的压力，包括人口增长、经济发展和自然资源枯竭，水产养殖在提高营养食品生产和加强粮食安全方面处于有利地位。虽然自20世纪90年代以来，通过野生捕捞的全球水产收获量基本持平，但水产养殖是一个持续增长的行业，补充了自然来源鱼类生产的停滞，从而使这种高质量的蛋白质来源保持在普通加拿大人的经济能力范围内。然而，在加拿大，获得新的水产养殖地点批准的困难是一个严重的限制因素，重要的是那些已经批准的水产养殖地点要优化生产力。因此，远距离优化在工业环境中往往是临时的，依赖于现场工人的直觉。工业参与者明确表示希望获得更多的实时数据和分析数据的方法，以最大限度地提高产量并降低成本。这需要两方面的努力：开发成本和时间效益高的硬件来收集数据，以及开发功能强大的软件来可视化和分析收集的数据。这项工作将集中在实时水产养殖优化的可视化分析设计上。这将涉及界面和可视化的设计，以更好地分析实时水产养殖数据，并发现尚未了解的见解和关系。这反过来将导致产品的改进，使农民能够围绕喂养和鱼类健康做出决定。

Given the global pressures on our common food sources including population growth, economic advancementand natural resource depletion, aquaculture is well placed to enhance nutritious food production and bolsterfood security. While the global aquatic harvest through wild capture has essentially flatlined since the 1990's,aquaculture is an industry that has grown continuously, supplementing the stagnation of naturally source fishproduction and thereby keeping this high-quality source of protein within financial reach of ordinaryCanadians. However, the difficulty of gaining approval for new sites for aquaculture is a severe limiting factorin Canada and it is important that those have been approved be optimized for productivity. Thus faroptimization has often been ad hoc in industrial settings and reliant on the intuition of workers in the field.There is a clearly stated desire from industry participants for more real-time data and means of analyzing thatdata to maximize production and minimize costs. This requires a two-fold effort: the development of cost andtime-effective hardware to gather the data and capable software to visualize and analyze the gathered data.This work will focus on the design of visual analytics for real-time aquaculture optimization. This will involvethe design of interfaces and visualizations to better analyze real-time aquaculture data and discover as yetunknown insights and relationships. This in turn will lead to product improvements that will enable farmerscan make decisions around both feeding and fish health.