Busan Gijang-gun Builds Marine Environment Data to Serve Fishermen
Selected for 'Public Data Digital New Deal' Contest... Linked ICT Seaweed Aquaculture Farm Environment Monitoring System
Providing Marine Environment Analysis Information, Advancing the Scientific Approach to Seaweed Aquaculture
[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] The Busan Gijang-gun Seaweed Breeding Convergence Research Center has been selected for the Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s ‘2020 Public Data Digital New Deal’ contest, securing 200 million KRW in national funding.
The Public Data Digital New Deal is a national project related to the Korean New Deal aimed at leading the data economy and creating youth jobs in the data sector by accelerating the opening and quality improvement of public data in the post-COVID-19 era. It focuses on ‘building data infrastructure’ for collecting, accumulating, and utilizing data.
Gijang-gun applied for and was selected in the ‘Big Data-Based Customized Seaweed Aquaculture Service Support’ category, which supports public data construction, processing, and data company matching, by linking with the already established ‘ICT Seaweed Aquaculture Farm Environment Monitoring System’ in the Gijang sea area.
The main content of this contest project includes securing data for big data analysis and AI-based future prediction system construction, discovering information service content for aquaculture farmers based on the constructed data, and establishing a systematic integrated management system for related information and data to support aquaculture households.
The ‘Gijang-gun ICT Seaweed Aquaculture Farm Environment Monitoring System,’ linked with this contest, was selected in a 2019 Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries contest, with a total project cost of 495 million KRW (198 million KRW national funds, 297 million KRW county funds). It was completed in June 2020 and is currently operational.
This system attaches measurement sensors for water temperature, illuminance, salinity, DO, pH, wind direction, and wind speed at different water layers (depths of 1m, 3m, 5m, and 9m) at one site each in the sea areas of Gijang-eup, Ilgwang-myeon, and Jangan-eup, where seaweed aquaculture is concentrated. It collects data in real time, converts it into big data, and provides marine environment analysis information to fishermen. It is the nation’s first marine spatial environment information provision system using ICT technology.
Gijang-gun plans to establish a scientific seaweed aquaculture system by linking the newly selected ‘Public Data Digital New Deal’ with the existing ‘ICT Seaweed Aquaculture Farm Environment Monitoring System,’ securing a stable foundation for big data collection. This is expected to greatly contribute not only to increasing aquaculture household income but also to the development of related industries.
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A research center official said, “We will do our best to provide various high-quality marine spatial data information to stabilize and scientificize the Gijang seaweed aquaculture industry, improve the quality of life for fishermen, and utilize it as a new growth engine for the marine and fisheries industry.”
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