Scripps Phytoplankton Camera

Our latest underwater imaging system, the Scripps Phytoplankton Camera (SPC-P), was deployed at the end of Scripps Pier on Sept 19, 2014 and has been running for several weeks collecting over 30,000 images per day. Click on the images below to visit the site:

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From the site:

The Scripps Phytoplankton Camera (SPC-P) was developed under a grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation and an anonymous donor to the Scripps Inst. of Oceanograpy, and in cooperation with the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS). The SPC-P is an underwater darkfield microscope with real-time image processing and object detection. It was designed to detect objects from a few microns up to several millimeters. It employs darkfield illumination. Data from the SPC-P are transferred in real-time to a webserver and database that support an interactive web tool for browsing images and exploring image statistics.

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