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and local manufacturing of electronic com- ing of human resources. 2. Modern technologies in ocean observation and exploration
ponents and pharmaceutical ingredients. All these factors are connected through
As in other areas that operate in a glo- the creation of a solid maritime mentality Researchers making measurements at are used in simple wind speed and direc-
balized economy and with strong depen- within society, enhancing the feeling of im- sea in the early 1970s often say that at that tion meters, in current profilers by doppler
dence on foreign technologies, such as portance of the Blue Economy and its im- time there was a belief that a good ocean- effect, the Acoustic Doppler Current Pro-
agribusiness, the pharmaceutical industry, pact on the lives of each individual inserted ographic instrument is one with less than filers, in active and passive sonar systems,
aerospace, telecommunications, among in it. According to Vice Admiral Paulo Morei- one transistor. Such rejection was certainly and communication and submarine posi-
others, the national technological advance ra, Patron of Oceanography in the Brazilian a function of the poor image of reliability tioning systems. These applications branch
for the economy linked to the sea requires Navy, it is not enough to proclaim that the that electronic equipment had. Today, it is into several others, when complexity is
high investments to obtaining knowledge, riches of the sea are ours, they need to be not possible to imagine an instrument that added to the hardware and the processing
whether financial, in research or industrial known by us and transformed into human is devoid of programmable control of read- capacity of the receiving systems. Nowa-
infrastructure, in training human resources, riches. Innovative ocean technologies are es- ing, digitization, internal storage, and dig- days, you can have a 3-D image of a small
or in operational actions. These investments sential for the country to know its resources ital transmission of data. The improvement object, located in deep water, if a multi-
must comply with a strategic development in the sea and be able to explore them in a of materials, machining and manufacturing beam sonar is attached to an autonomous,
plan that seeks short-term achievements to sustainable and intelligent way. processes, electronic and computer systems, manned or remotely controlled underwater
meet repressed demands and in the me- In the last three decades, the advance- radio telemetry, mobile telephony or satel- vehicle. Modern defense submarines and
dium and long term to seek technological ment of technologies, especially electron- lites, analysis, processing and control algo- seismic ships use complex arrays of receiv-
autonomy and the development of solu- ics, computing, underwater acoustics, rithms and the use of recent tools such as ers to “listen” to the marine environment
tions, with a foundation and structuring nanotechnology, satellites, among others, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Realities around them or the echo of sound waves
vision, involving all levels of governments, allowed man to evolve a lot in his knowl- (VR) and Augmented Realities (AR) and nan- on the ocean floor, respectively.
academia, science and technology centers, edge about the Ocean, but there is still otechnology have enabled the improvement The examples above, added to appli-
companies, and other civil society actors. much to be done, as presented by Claudet and appearance of devices for use in differ- cations such as acoustic communication
In addition to these strategic challeng- and collaborators (2020) in the demands ent areas related to the ocean, from sensors networks for the control and positioning of
es, in situ observation and carrying out for the Decade of Ocean Science. This for Phytoplankton studies, to large offshore vehicles and equipment (seeking to over-
operational activities in an unfavorable knowledge, transformed into a provider wind energy generators or autonomous come the inoperability of electromagnetic
environment, such as the marine one, and promoter of transversal actions that machines for monitoring or mining. communication and satellite navigation
are challenges for existing technologies. seek solutions for the integral monitor- Disserting about the various technolo- systems in the water), demonstrate the di-
The adversities to be overcome include its ing of the Ocean and Coastal Zones, and gies linked to the ocean would be an al- versity of areas of knowledge involved in
breadth and severe conditions, the plurali- Research, Development and Innovation most impossible mission and would not these technologies. The development of
ty of actors and needs, costs, and even the (R&D&I) for national progress, will collab- meet the objectives of this publication. As this equipment requires knowledge of ma-
lack of solutions. The mitigation of these orate for the creation, within the precepts an example of this greatness, one can men- terials chemistry, electronics, mechanics/ro-
setbacks depends not only on a strong in- of the Blue Economy, of new strong and tion the 2022 Buyers Guide by Sea Tech- botics, computing, signal processing, phys-
dustry, but also on the need for scientific consolidated industrial poles, such as the nology magazine (Sea Technology Buyers ics of sound propagation in water, and may
and technical development to generate in- existing ones in the areas of oil and gas Guide Directory 2022), which ranks more go through data compression techniques,
novations that bring progress, improve ac- exploration in deep waters and the aero- than 240 products with suppliers in the machine learning, among others, depend-
cess and data management and the train- space industry. world market. ing on the application: geology, oceanog-
In the last three decades, acoustic systems raphy, biology, etc.
have been gaining prominence in activities The robot universe is another agglutina-
such as environmental monitoring, com- tor of different and modern technologies.
munication, and defense. Its technologies It takes years between the initial design

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