Report on Potential New Sensors (Fishing Vessels and Voluntary Opportunity Ships)

The Jerico Project is the first step of a pan-European coastal Infrastructure, open to all providers and users. Work package 10 is dedicated towards improvement of existing and emerging technologies on coastal observatories The WP description identified three issues which if addressed would result in a quality improvement of a European Observatory of coastal ecosystems. This report focuses on the documentation and testing of emerging sensor technologies looking at the improvements and development of emerging new technologies and sensors, along with the use and development of platforms allowing for the optimal deployment of novel sensors. These include emerging profiling technology, gliders and ships of opportunity. One of the key objectives is to examine the extent to which emerging technologies can be utilised and/or adapted to the benefit of coastal operational oceanography and to document and test technology will underpin future operational oceanographic systems in Europe's coastal seas. This report includes a description of Potential new sensors developed in relation to Tasks 10.3/10.4 - (Emerging Technology) and links the development of these potential new sensors for deployment on ships of opportunity (Volunteer Opportunity Ships - VOS) - including fishing vessels. This report includes a description of potential new sensors and emerging technologies and links the development of these potential new sensors for deployment on ships of opportunity (Volunteer Opportunity Ships - VOS) - including ferry boats and fishing vessels. For many years Voluntary Opportunity Ships such as commercial shipping vessels or ferry boats are used to acquire physical data of the surface of the ocean. In order to use other kinds of VOS, we are producing new generation of sensors such as RECOPESCA for fishing boats and CANOE for sailing boats. The Villefranche workshop1 presented this new generation of sensors and the future opportunities. The discussions and information from the workshop served to make appropriate modifications to the use of existing systems to meet identified objectives to expand and upgrade ships of opportunity initiatives using available state of the art instrumentation. The report on the new sensors and other emerging technologies is structured and presented as follows: ? Description of technology (sensor) ? Appropriate platform for the sensor (Ferrybox, Glider, Fixed platform, other) ? Future steps o Integration into operational system o Timescale of integration o Cost implications o Other operational considerations.