Prototype Imaging Devices For Jelly Zooplankton A Low-Consumption, Stand-Alone System for Image Detection, Analysis

We present a low power stand-alone (i.e. not cabled) imaging system consisting of two separate modules for acquisition and analysis, that can be used in applications such as regional experiments where instruments are released for finite time and then recovered, with no need for real-time communication. The image acquisition device is relatively small and low power and can be mounted on fixed-point or moving platforms, acquiring data for periods of the order of days to months. The analysis component, also tailored for low consumption, works off-line once the data are recovered and uses pattern recognition techniques to identify relevant contents, encoding them in alpha numeric strings.