Acoustic sensing of macroalgae (kelp) for large-scale marine biomass production

An important component of the future use of large-scale offshore farms to grow macroalgae (kelp) will be remote monitoring of infrastructure, the environment, and plant health over areas so large that manual inspection is not practical. A new program, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy's Macroalgae Research Inspiring Novel Energy Resources (ARPA-E MARINER), has the long-term goal of domestic energy production using biofuel derived from...