Marine Video Data Capture And Storage

We designed the architecture of the observation system to support capturing of high resolution videos. An intuitive design is to transmit videos to the storage site directly. There is, however, a risk of data lost caused by network instability and possibly electrical blackout. A set of hardware components is devised as the first tier processing and buffering device which stores videos temporarily while the video transmission process is waiting for a network channel. Higher bitrates, e.g., 5 mbps, are also tested in order to provide a clearer and more reliable data source for further video analysis. With the buffering space we are able to overcome network bandwidth limitations and transmit higher resolution videos in an effective way.