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A highly sensitive underwater video system for use in turbid aquaculture ponds

The turbid, low-light waters characteristic of aquaculture ponds have made it difficult or impossible for previous video cameras to provide clear imagery of the ponds’ benthic habitat. We developed a highly sensitive, underwater video system (UVS) for this particular application and tested it in shr...

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Autores principales: Hung, Chin-Chang, Tsao, Shih-Chieh, Huang, Kuo-Hao, Jang, Jia-Pu, Chang, Hsu-Kuang, Dobbs, Fred C.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4995459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27554201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep31810
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author Hung, Chin-Chang
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Chang, Hsu-Kuang
Dobbs, Fred C.
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description The turbid, low-light waters characteristic of aquaculture ponds have made it difficult or impossible for previous video cameras to provide clear imagery of the ponds’ benthic habitat. We developed a highly sensitive, underwater video system (UVS) for this particular application and tested it in shrimp ponds having turbidities typical of those in southern Taiwan. The system’s high-quality video stream and images, together with its camera capacity (up to nine cameras), permit in situ observations of shrimp feeding behavior, shrimp size and internal anatomy, and organic matter residues on pond sediments. The UVS can operate continuously and be focused remotely, a convenience to shrimp farmers. The observations possible with the UVS provide aquaculturists with information critical to provision of feed with minimal waste; determining whether the accumulation of organic-matter residues dictates exchange of pond water; and management decisions concerning shrimp health.
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spelling pubmed-49954592016-08-30 A highly sensitive underwater video system for use in turbid aquaculture ponds Hung, Chin-Chang Tsao, Shih-Chieh Huang, Kuo-Hao Jang, Jia-Pu Chang, Hsu-Kuang Dobbs, Fred C. Sci Rep Article The turbid, low-light waters characteristic of aquaculture ponds have made it difficult or impossible for previous video cameras to provide clear imagery of the ponds’ benthic habitat. We developed a highly sensitive, underwater video system (UVS) for this particular application and tested it in shrimp ponds having turbidities typical of those in southern Taiwan. The system’s high-quality video stream and images, together with its camera capacity (up to nine cameras), permit in situ observations of shrimp feeding behavior, shrimp size and internal anatomy, and organic matter residues on pond sediments. The UVS can operate continuously and be focused remotely, a convenience to shrimp farmers. The observations possible with the UVS provide aquaculturists with information critical to provision of feed with minimal waste; determining whether the accumulation of organic-matter residues dictates exchange of pond water; and management decisions concerning shrimp health. Nature Publishing Group 2016-08-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4995459/ /pubmed/27554201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep31810 Text en Copyright © 2016, The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4995459/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27554201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep31810
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