The Persistent Smart Acoustic Profiler: Infinite Possibilities for Soundscape Monitoring

The Persistent Smart Acoustic Profiler combines advanced technologies to create a lightweight ocean soundscape monitoring platform with infinite endurance and near real-time reporting capability. While ocean soundscapes are crucial for understanding marine ecosystems and the behaviors of marine animals, they are severely undersampled and poorly understood. Numerous sensing strategies are being employed to add to the body of knowledge on soundscapes, however it is often both challenging and expensive to collect data over extended periods, especially in difficult-to-reach locations. With a variety of sensing tools at their disposal, scientists can monitor marine life, assess the health of ecosystems, and develop approaches that mitigate the impacts of anthropogenic sound, ultimately promoting a better coexistence between human activities and marine wildlife. PSAP offers a unique approach to soundscape monitoring. With its unlimited endurance, global communication capability and streamlined onboard signal processing, PSAP can be deployed once and never recovered, providing an endless stream of valuable soundscape information to shore in near real time from remote oceanic locations around the globe.