Biofouling protection by electro-chlorination on optical windows for oceanographic sensors and imaging devices

Oceans environmental monitoring and seafloor exploitation need in situ sensors and optical devices (cameras, lights) in various locations and on various carriers in order to initiate and to calibrate environmental models or to operate underwater industrial process supervision. For more than 10 years Ifremer deploys in situ monitoring systems for various seawater parameters and in situ observation systems based on lights and HD Cameras. To be economically operational, these systems must be equipped with a biofouling protection dedicated to the sensors and optical devices used in situ. Indeed, biofouling, in less than 15 days [1] will modify the transducing interfaces of the sensors and causes unacceptable bias on the measurements provided by the in situ monitoring system. In the same way biofouling will decrease the optical properties of windows and thus altering the lighting and the quality fot he images recorded by the camera.

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Delauney Laurent, Boukerma Kada, Bucas Karenn, Coail Jean-Yves, Debeaumont Mathieu, Forest Bertrand, Garello Celia, Guyader Gerard, Le Bras Yves, Peleau Michel, Rinnert Emmanuel (2015). Biofouling protection by electro-chlorination on optical windows for oceanographic sensors and imaging devices. OCEANS 2015 - Genova , pp.1-10. https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS-Genova.2015.7271715, https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00349/45998/

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