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Project MARLIN
The Future of Underwater Acoustic Monitoring
MARLIN changes the game for underwater acoustic monitoring.
Its unique machine learning analysis can hunt for marine environment signatures of interest and alert users via mobile internet and LEOSAT communications systems.
Findings are sent in real-time to a cloud interface, where end users can react to events in an instant.
Monitoring and protecting the underwater environment
Funded by Innovate UK, the goal of MARLIN is to develop new ways of monitoring and protecting the marine environment from the effects of human activity.
Specifically supporting conservation, offshore energy and defense efforts, MARLIN gathers real-time intelligence on remote areas of the ocean by differentiating and labelling ambient and environmental noise.
Key features
• Detect and classify marine mammals and vessel types
• Remote real-time monitoring of human, animal and environmental activity
• Real-time processing of underwater acoustic data
• Real-time communication to end user
• Use cases include conservation of marine mammals, detection of illegal fishing vessels and defence and security
Vessel Monitoring
MARLIN harnesses the capability to identify and track illegal unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing activity.
Illegal fishing poses a significant threat to marine ecosystems and the livelihoods of coastal communities worldwide. By integrating historical acoustic data with vessel traffic information, Project MARLIN empowers authorities to pinpoint suspicious vessel behaviour and take timely action to prevent or halt illegal fishing activities.
About Innovate UK
Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, is the UK’s innovation agency. Their mission is to help companies to grow through their development and commercialisation of new products, processes and services, supported by an outstanding innovation ecosystem that is agile, inclusive and easy to navigate.
Meet the team
Since MARLIN’s initial investment campaign and successful funding achievement, we have brought together leading experts from across their respective fields to shape MARLIN into the powerful tool it is today.
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Ryan Mowat. PhD
Director of Innovation
Ryan is RS Aqua’s Director of Innovation and a Director at the Society of Maritime Industries (SMI) and Chair of SMI’s Marine Science & Technology Council. He is an ocean scientist and expert in the use of subsea acoustics for ecological and environmental monitoring.
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Vamsi
Embedded Systems Engineer
Vamsi is the primary Embedded Systems engineer working on Project MARLIN. He designs the hardware and software system, firmware, and network architecture for MARLIN systems to be able to run Machine Learning algorithms on the Edge.
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Rahul
Lead ML Engineer
Rahul graduated from Edinburgh University where he studied chemical engineering. He spent the next 5 years in academia reading theoretical physics at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden and Imperial College. He has worked on projects that predict dynamical systems from genetic expression control in anti-cancer research to financial markets and catastrophe modelling. He is now excited to apply the same knowledge and approach at RS Aqua.
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