PAMBuoy - Marine Mammal and Marine Noise Monitoring System
PAMBuoy is a cutting edge autonomous noise level and marine mammal detection passive acoustic monitoring system. It has been designed to run multiple software detection and monitoring algorithms to reduce data volumes from 80GB to the several megabyte for transmission to shore, whilst being low power enough to handle extended deployment periods at sea. Its core electronics and software package, the RTDC, remains the same for all deployments and can be reconfigured in-situ for a variety of different species, in many cases running multiple species detection concurrently.
PAMBuoy is built on the widely used software PAMGUARD, the leading solution for passive acoustic monitoring for the Oil & Gas industry. The proprietary software of PAMBuoy has been developed specifically to run on low-power processors, reliably and with minimal maintenance. The system has an input bandwidth capable of detecting all known marine mammal sounds, with software detectors that can be dynamically enabled.