Projects & Innovation

The project aims to generate new practical knowledge on how to reduce the incidence of malformations in the major fish species used in European aquaculture production and to apply this to the professional sector.

High numbers of malformed individual fish can cause severe financial losses for small and medium-size enterprise (SME) growers of almost all aquaculture species across Europe. The similarity of malformation symptoms across different fish species and culture environments implies a general effect within rearing conditions. A wide-scope research effort is needed to identify the causes and develop solutions. With 19 partners in nine countries, the Collective Research FINEFISH project aims to generate new scientific and practical knowledge to help SME hatcheries reduce the incidence of malformations in the major fish species used in European aquaculture production, thus increasing production yields.

A consortium of eight organisations is working on a research program to evaluate the benefits of Thermal Infra Red Hyper Spectral Imaging (TIHSI) technologies, as remote integrated into surveillance systems for the detection of clandestine weapon development or activities having a bearing on security.

Five SME's, specialised in the development, use and processing of hyper spectral data are implementing ground and airborne experiments, building and using a prototype sensor unit which is able to detect traces of gases, solid or liquid materials typical of clandestine activities. This work is done n partnership with JRC and King's College London who are assisting in definig the targets particularity in the clandestine weapon surveillance field.

This new technology has been developed and patented by ATIS, who has obtained detection performances on gases and some solid materials which appear very promising. The need to detect a new spectrum on chemical species makes it necessary to adapt the existing technology (both hadware and software) to meet a new set of performances. PEPITE, ACTIMAR and KEYOBS provide complementary expertise in terms of signal processing, over and above the solutions already implemented by ATIS.