Credit of Indian researchers

Panaji April 15: Top leading Researchers at the Dona Paula-based CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) have developed a robotic platform that can be stationed at any depth from 0 to 200 meters to track the oceanic processes.

"Scientists at Marine Instrumentation Group of CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography (CSIR-NIO) have developed a robotic platform, Seabed Resident Event Profiler (SREP), that can be stationed at any water depth down to 200 meters along the Indian coast," NIO

"SREP is designed to track oceanic processes such as upwelling that occurs regularly during June to September along the west coast of India and are important for the ecosystem sustenance and fishery," he said.

"Several sensors that can detect the conditions associated with upwellings such as low temperature, low oxygen, high nutrients, and changes in density patterns are placed on this platform," the spokesman said.