Coastal Science
CoastalCOMS assists coastal scientists, engineering agencies, and universities with the monitoring of coastal projects, wetland areas, and marine areas including live image publication and provisioning of both raw and/or processed data collection against complex schedules. With so much data available in the coastal zone, we look forward to providing processing information so your team can focus on science rather than keeping cameras running or digging through the volumes of data today’s imaging systems can dish out.
Marine Protected Area Monitoring
Human usage and biological monitoring are two of the primary challenges facing effective implementation of marine protected areas. Our counting algorithms and video collection systems can be tuned to count humans or marine mammals in an area, such as with seabirds on a roost. Initial experiments with thermal cameras provide new information on various human activities and animal behaviors at night. While some of these tools are still in development, our existing tool box has direct implications to informing both human uses and biological activities in specific areas.
If you’re interested in our capabilities, we operate a series of mobile demonstration cameras, and can come to you. Please just drop us a line.
Private or Cooperative Coastal Camera Access
We work with Universities where possible in each location we have cameras, in some cases providing in-kind contributions to grant work, or funding students who are working on like-minded science. Especially in areas where overlapping coastal projects exist, we can offer the ability to leverage relationships with public safety to unify new and existing camera networks such that all cameras and systems support a base level of data gathering and public safety access. We’ll help identify overlapping needs and unify or build a system that services multiple agencies.
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