Methods for tracking fine scale underwater movements of marine mammals around marine tidal devices

Footnotes

1. Active acoustic tags are discussed in the Passive Acoustic Monitoring - Section 3.3.

2. These procedures require an appropriate Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 license.

3. The Iridium satellite system ( http://www.iridium.com/default.aspx) may have the potential to become a candidate data relay system. However its practical application in marine mammal telemetry has yet to be demonstrated.

4. http://www.smru.st-andrews.ac.uk/Instrumentation/Products/ Currently SMRU Instrumentation is the only provider of this type of tag functionality.

5. The data are sent using a FTP protocol over a General Packet Radio Service ( GPRS) link.

6. We estimate that the current vector prediction should be (+- 0.2m/s, +- 5°) of truth and available at a spatial (x, y, z) scale of 5-10m.

7. For example the C-POD ( http://www.chelonia.co.uk).

8. SMRU Ltd is developing useful functionality in this area to support its PAMBOUY products

9. Examples include: http://www.vemco.com/, http://www.oceantracks.csiro.au/tags-acoustic.html, http://atstrack.com/Generic-84-Acoustic-Fish.aspx, http://www.htisonar.com/index.htm, http://www.lotek.com/acoustic-positioning-software.pdf, http://atstrack.com/Generic-112-Systems-Acoustic-Fish.aspx

10. http://www.pamguard.org/

11. http://www.tritech.co.uk/product/mechanical-scanning-sonar-tritech-super-seaking

12. http://www.tritech.co.uk/product/gemini-720i-300m-multibeam-imaging-sonar

13. This will require about two weeks of programmer effort.

14. For example the Hitachi KP-DE500 Ultra High Sensitivity Camera.

15. http://www.hammerfeststrom.com/

16. This date may be delayed.