High-Level Project Summary
What Is Our Project:We designed a robot that scans the underwater in groups with Side-Scan Sonar. This information is recorded and sent to a database. Then an AI categorises this information and visualise it on a map. How Does it solve the challenge:We hope that with this kind of system we will help scientist and researchers to see and manipulate the usage of non-organic materials such as plastics.Why is it important:Marine life is one of the most important and beautiful ecosystems in the world. It contributes greatly to carbon cycle. Infact over 50% of the air we breathe is from marine life and many more. But Marine debris threaten the marine life greatly. we must protect it.
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Detailed Project Description
How Does Our Project Works?
We designed several electronic devices for our project. These are:
- Underwater Robots
- Drones
- Stations
- Computer Systems
Underwater Robots will scan the underwater with side-scan sonar for marine debris, since 70% of marine debris are underwater. For the debris on water we designed drones. Drones will take bird's eye view photographs of marine debris. These information then send to computer systems via Settellites.
Computer Systems then process the information, looking for Marine debris. This processed information then categorized by artifial intelligance. These categories will be saved in databases with information types like debri type, location and density etc. these databases then used for creating a map, showing the distribution of marine debris types.
Since these robots can be damaged, lost or broken, there will be stations on water. The robots will monitored and overseed from these stations and can be remotely controlled anytime via internet. Damaged robots will stay here until they repaired. Robots also charge themselves using these stations. The power needed for these stations are provided from renewable energy sources such as Sun, wind or sea current.
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We Really Enjoyed It was realy very traınıng for us
References
https://www.globewater.org/facts/water-pollution-statistics/
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/water-pollution-everything-you-need-know
https://www.condorferries.co.uk/marine-ocean-pollution-statistics-facts
https://plastic-pollution.org/
https://gallery.autodesk.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_radiation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clerk_Maxwell
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/water-pollution/
https://www.sea.edu/plastics/frequently_asked_questions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749117334310
https://www.usbr.gov/mp/arwec/water-facts-ww-water-sup.html
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Wallace-Nichols/publication/268187066_Editorial_Plastic_Pollution_An_Ocean_Emergency/links/54c622550cf256ed5a9c8f3c/Editorial-Plastic-Pollution-An-Ocean-Emergency.pdf
https://ocean.si.edu/conservation/pollution/marine-plastics
https://www.epa.gov/trash-free-waters/toxicological-threats-plastic
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0204-4
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0236149
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03104-3
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/77016253.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7731724/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-scan_sonar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ww2PflbWD8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multibeam_echosounder
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/hydrophone.html#:~:text=A%20hydrophone%20is%20an%20underwater,the%20underwater%20world%20is%20silent.&text=Most%20hydrophones%20are%20based%20on,to%20changes%20in%20underwater%20pressure.
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA392466
https://www.doi.gov/ocl/marine-debris
https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/4723/0000/Flash-lidar-based-on-multiple-slit-streak-tube-imaging-lidar/10.1117/12.476407.short?SSO=1
https://coast.noaa.gov/states/fast-facts/marine-debris.html
https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?v=-187.03157478690488,-93.9309191249405,240.0121818833192,114.47533087505947&l=MODIS_Terra_Chlorophyll_A,Reference_Labels_15m(hidden),Reference_Features_15m(hidden),Coastlines_15m,VIIRS_SNPP_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Aqua_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor(hidden),MODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor&lg=false&t=2017-07-02-T14%3A00%3A00Z
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468013319301676
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4315461
https://airsar.jpl.nasa.gov/
https://www.photonis.com/products/streak-tubes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streak_camera
Tags
#AI, #ML,#Marine debris#stella
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