RIGOCAL ENGINEERING LIMITED

Offshore operators undertaking works such as seismic surveys and pile driving are required to implement measures to minimise injuries and disturbances to marine mammals within a defined operating zone. The current approach has several disadvantages and not really effective.
RIGOCAL Engineering in collaboration with EPCC at The University of Edinburgh developed a cost-effective, automated solution for the detection of marine mammals that performs significantly more-efficiently than the current approach that results in a considerable reduction in lost operating days. The new method utilises advanced real-time analysis of RGB and IR video images captured at the operating site to automatically detect and record mammal activity within the mitigation zone.