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Underwater Digital Holography of Plankton with Advanced Monitoring Capabilities for Bioindication in Situ
Summary
This study presents a submersible digital holographic camera system for monitoring plankton in arctic waters, tracking behavioral characteristics that can indicate ecosystem stress. Long-term time series data from the camera revealed rhythmic patterns in plankton behavior useful as indicators of ecosystem health.
The study presents a bioindication complex and a technology of the experiment based on a submersible digital holographic camera with advanced monitoring capabilities for the study of plankton and its behavioral characteristics in situ. Additional mechanical and software options expand the capabilities of the digital holographic camera, thus making it possible to adapt the depth of the holographing scene to the parameters of the plankton habitat, perform automatic registration of the “zero” frame and automatic calibration, and carry out natural experiments with plankton photostimulation. The paper considers the results of a long-term digital holographic experiment on the biotesting of the water area in Arctic latitudes. It shows additional possibilities arising during spectral processing of long time series of plankton parameters obtained during monitoring measurements by a submersible digital holographic camera. In particular, information on the rhythmic components of the ecosystem and behavioral characteristics of plankton, which can be used as a marker of the ecosystem well-being disturbance, is thus obtained.
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