AdriFOOS
AdriFOOS is composed of Fishery & Oceanography Observing Systems (FOOS) installed on commercial fishing vessels operating in the Adriatic Sea and a datacenter located at IRBIM Ancona. In 2003 some fishing vessels were equipped with semi-automatic systems for the collection of data useful for fishery biology and oceanography (Fishery Observing System; Falco et al 2007; Carpi et al 2015; Aydoğdu et al 2016; Sparnocchia et al 2016; Lucchetti et al 2018). Since 2012 the modular FOOS system allows to collect and send in near real-time to an on-land datacenter more environmental parameters with greater precision and to send back on board information (Patti et al 2016; Martinelli et al 2016). The AdriFOOS datacenter receives daily datasets recorded along the water column and near the seabed, GPS tracks, catch quantity per haul, size of the species caught and meteorological information (Penna et al. 2023). Under different access levels, Web services (e.g. username: foosample, password: fsA@23.mp) allow to perform quality controls and manage the data, partly directly accessible also through international portals such as EMODnet. AdriFOOS serves as a platform for validation and demonstration of new generation sensors designed to be used on fishing vessels (Martinelli et al. 2023; 2024), contributes to the definition of international best practices (Sparnocchia et al 2017; Möller et al 2019; Van Vranken et al 2020) and is part of the Fishing Vessel Ocean Observing Network (FVON; Van Vranken et al. 2023).
Manager: Michela Martinelli, Pierluigi Penna
Collaborators: Fabrizio Moro, Filippo Domenichetti, Lorenzo Zacchetti, Enrico Cecapolli, Andrea Belardinelli
Institute: Ancona
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