2.3 Gathering and interpreting data from new technologies: the Fisheries Monitoring Centre
A full fishing vessel monitoring system relies on a well-functioning Fisheries Monitoring
Centre (FMC), hosted locally or remotely. Manned by a few experts, the Centre collects
fishing vessels’ data, validates and stores them, and makes the information available for
analysis, either for monitoring in real time of for historical analyses.
1) It relies on four main pillars to collect data:
• Database (a collection of data items organised as a set of formally described tables
from which data can be accessed),
• Application software (to manage data),
• GIS (Geographic Information System) mapping,
• Communication software (to send and receive various data from various sources).
2) Various data sources can be parsed and merged (figure 2), including;
• VMS (Argos, Iridium, Inmarsat),
• AIS (satellite or terrestrial),
• Satellite optical or Radar data (imaging),
Oceanographic/meteorological data,
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