Innovative Restoration Technologies for the Spatial Scaling of Marine Restoration
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensors and Robotics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2024) | Viewed by 998
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2. Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, 80122 Naples, Italy
Interests: ecological monitoring; biological indicators; fisheries; cabled video-observatories; autonomous robotic platforms
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Interests: precision agriculture; machine learning; deep learning; precision forestry; condensed matter physics; spectroscopy
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The United Nations (UN) has called for a decade of “Ecosystem Restoration”. In the marine realm, in-situ operations are often limited to the operating depths of SCUBA divers yet 99% of marine habitats exceed these depths. To address this issue, emerging robotic technologies should provide three fundamental lines of restoration action: (1) ecological surveying of areas pre-restoration to describe habitat heterogeneity and identify strategic sites, via high-resolution 3D image and acoustic-based tools; (2) in-situ manipulative actions including transferring/seeding organisms and placing colonization substrates to scale recovered surface to kilometre scale; and finally, (3) remote monitoring of ongoing operations and of post-restoration dynamics. Presently, the managing environment sector which is mostly interested by the robotic revolution, is agriculture. Most of the technological issues which limit the development of a largescale oceanic monitoring and restoration, are now solved in smart agriculture while actual challenges of that field are common to marine sciences. The impact due technological improvements such as AI-powered sensors, is deeply changing the field of smart agriculture and precision forestry, by increasing productivity, reducing waste, and improving sustainability. As such, the following Special Volume will contain information on marine in-situ intervention technologies by tele-operated and autonomous robotic platforms in relation to restoration of costal and deep-sea ecosystems. This will provide a platform for inter-sectoral dialogue between marine and precision agriculture scientists with the goal of transferring technological solutions to develop networks of marine platforms for in-situ intervention. Contributions on different aspects of marine and agriculture robotics technologies (e.g., AI routines for platforms navigation and autonomous intervention, arms and manipulation taxonomies, areas’ mapping and monitoring, strategic sensors and innovative combinations into operational payloads) are foreseen.
Dr. Jacopo Aguzzi
Dr. Luciano Ortenzi
Guest Editors
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