走航式海洋观测平台设计及其初步应用*

缺乏现场海洋观测数据是限制我们进一步认识海洋的瓶颈之一。文章设计了具备远程遥测功能的全自动海洋监测平台, 该平台无人值守、采用走航观测方式自动获取长时间序列海洋监测数据。此研究还对该平台进行了近海和远洋走航共两次验证测试。结果表明, 该平台稳定可靠、兼容性好, 走航数据符合所监测水域的水体特征, 可用于探讨相关参数的变化特征, 揭示事件和过程的机制机理。如果将该平台搭载于轮渡、渔船等非科考船, 则可以在现有海洋技术条件下, 高效地获取更大的空间和时间尺度的实时大数据, 为解决海洋观测数据缺乏的问题, 提供一种技术手段。

Design and application of ship-borne marine-monitoring platform

The lack of ocean observation data is a bottleneck, which limits our capability to study and explore oceans. We designed a fully-automatic marine-monitoring platform with the remote-telemetry function, which also can auto-obtain ship-borne long time series marine monitoring data. We tested the fully-automatic marine-monitoring platform two times in coastal water and open ocean, which was stable, reliable and compatible according to the data analyzed. The data showed relevant parameters’ changes and revealed mechanisms of relevant ocean events and processes. We expect to popularize the platform on ferries, fishing boats/ships and other non-scientific ships, which utilize existing routes and ship-borne observation method to obtain cost-effective and real-time big data on both wide spatial scale and long time series. Based on the present marine technology, it is a new technical solution to the problems of lacking oceanographic data.