India, Australia launch bio robots in Indian Ocean

Robotic floats armed with sensors are launched within the Indian Ocean as a part of a brand new India-Australia analysis partnership to check the Indian Ocean, authorities same on Wed.
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial analysis Organization (CSIRO) created the announcement, reported Xinhua.
The Indian Ocean contains immense fisheries and natural resource that area unit of strategic importance to each Australia and Republic of India. It additionally plays a right away role in driving the climates of its encompassing regions - home to quite sixteen % of the world's population.
CSIRO same the new "Bio Argo" floats, to be launched in mid-2014, can enhance the already undefeated Argo float technology to live large-scale changes within the chemistry and biology of marine ecosystems below the Indian Ocean's surface.
The Argo floats area unit a network of three,600 free-floating sensors, in operation in open ocean areas that give time period knowledge on ocean temperature and salinity.

They will target specific gaps within the understanding of Indian Ocean ecosystems of immediate concern to Republic of India and Australia, like the Bay of geographical area and therefore the waters of north Western Australia.
CSIRO's Nick Hardman-Mountford same the pilot program, diode by CSIRO unitedly with the Indian National Institute of earth science (CSIR-NIO) and therefore the Indian National Center for Ocean data Services, can "improve our understanding of cause and result within the Indian Ocean's climate and ecosystems".
"By finding out the Indian Ocean during this detail, we are able to investigate the origin and impact of marine heatwaves just like the one that wasted the coral reefs and fisheries off north Western Australian in 2011 - and improve our prediction of them within the future," Hardman-Mountford same.
CSIR-NIO Director Wajih Naqvi same the novel technological innovation can provide researchers from each countries a brand new understanding of the Indian Ocean.
The $880,000 project was funded partially by the Australian government below the Australia- Republic of India Strategic analysis Fund.