基于ORCA Kilroy网络的海洋生态监测系统研究

Research on marine ecological monitoring system based on Kilroy ORCA network

基于生态系统管理(EBM)需要对海洋进行高频率和高空间密度方式地实时监测。这需要提供相应的传感器,这些传感器需要能直接测量生物过程、跟踪水的运动情况及评价水质。通过仅仅融合以往用于海洋监测的不同分立设备,并不能满足这些要求。在组件级别上,ORCA已经设计完成并正在测试的ORCA Kilroy网络是一种具备完整系统的传感器。ORCA网络由一个远程半自动海洋传感器系统无线网络和一个中央监控系统组成,这个中央监控系统用来指导远程系统的操作和数据收集。

Ecosystem-Based Management( EBM) requires marine monitoring in real time with high temporal frequency and high spatial density. It also requires sensors that can provide direct measurements of biological processes and the means to track water movement and evaluate water quality. These requirements can not realistically be met using huge amalgamations of the independent instruments traditionally used for marine monitoring. The ORCA has designed and is testing the ORCA Kilroy Network,an observatory designed as a whole system down to the sensors at the component level. The ORCA Network consists of a wireless network of remote semiautonomous marine sensor systems created by ORCA,and a central supervisory system that directs operations of the remote systems,collects data,and relays that via the Internet through a standard SOAP web service interface to a geospatial database. The network design is based on that of industrial control systems.