GUARD1 is an intelligent imaging device for the autonomous monitoring of remote marine environments and infrastructures, specifically designed for actions extended in time.
It is conceived as equipment for mobile platforms (e.g. sea gliders, vertical profilers, drifter buoys, AUVs) as well as stand-alone and wired observatories (e.g. oceanographic moorings, landers, cabled observatories).
It acquires underwater images at a programmable time rate, provides on board content-based image recognition based on customizable software and communicates the information extracted from the acquired images, discarding not relevant data.
