Development of a new Acoustic Data Storage Tags to track aquatic species****

声学和数据存储标签被广泛用于研究水生生物的运动和行为。声学标签提供了被标记生物体的准确位置，而档案标签提供了海洋学数据的近乎连续的记录，但没有关于位置的直接信息。VEMCO是世界领先的水上声学遥测技术公司，正在开发一种新的声学和数据存储标签（ADST），它将声学标签的传输能力与档案标签的数据记录能力相结合。* 电子标签必须体积小、重量轻，才能放在海洋生物上，而不影响它们的运动和行为。因此，它们的电池容量有限。因此，与ADST开发相关的主要工程和研究挑战是平衡数据记录、数据传输和电池容量。因此，需要找到解决方案，将数据汇总为易于传输的信息统计数据，同时提供有关动物运动，行为和栖息地的有意义的信息。VEMCO正在与Arnault Le Bris博士合作开发一种数学算法，将ADST存档的环境数据汇总为有意义的统计数据，可以通过声学信号轻松传输。如果成功的话，在这个NSERC Engage项目中开发的统计数据将用于VEMCO未来的ADST技术。这将有可能通过以功率有效的方式实现存储数据的声学传输来扰乱电子标签市场。这将最终使VEMCO能够在国际竞争对手面前占据重要地位，从而将更多的业务带回加拿大新斯科舍省。

Acoustic and data-storage tags are widely used to study the movements and behaviour of aquatic organisms. Acoustic tags provide accurate positions of a tagged organism, while archival tags provide near-continuous record of oceanographic data but no direct information on position. VEMCO, the world leader in aquatic acoustic telemetry, is developing a new Acoustic and Data Storage Tags (ADSTs) that combines the transmission capacity of an acoustic tag with the data logging capacity of an archival tag. ****Electronic tags need to be small and light-weighted to be placed on marine organisms without affecting their movement and behaviour. As a consequence, they have limited battery capacity. A major engineering and research challenge associated with the development of the ADST is thus to balance data records, data transmission and battery capacity. Therefore, solutions need to be found to summarize data into informative statistics that can be easily transmitted while providing meaningful information on animal movement, behaviour and habitat.****VEMCO is partnering with Dr. Arnault Le Bris to develop a mathematical algorithm to summarize environmental data archived by the ADST into a meaningful statistic that can be easily transmitted by an acoustic signal. If successful, the resulting statistic developed in this NSERC Engage project will be used in VEMCO's future ADST technology. This would have a potential to disrupt the electronic tag market by enabling acoustic transmission of stored data in a power efficient manner. This would ultimately enable VEMCO to gain significant ground on its international competitors and thus bring back more business into Nova Scotia Canada.**