FONTUS
FONTUS is a proposed open standard for on-demand fishing gear interoperability.
The standard incorporates on-demand fishing gear location marking, gear retrieval, lost gear recovery, and enforcement. A PDF of the initial proposed standard is in the documents subdirectory.
FONTUS describes the interactions of three subsystems: a cloud database, shipboard systems, and acoustic seafloor devices. The Matlab code in this repository is specifically to document the acoustic interoperability portion of the standard, between vessel-mounted acoustic devices and seafloor (trap) acoustic devices.
The Matlab code for the acoustic portion of the FONTUS standard is in the matlab subdirectory, and see the file matlab/README.md to get started.
Please email the FONTUS team with any questions, corrections, or feedback at fontus-team@whoi.edu, or post questions to the FONTUS mailing list at fontus-list@whoi.edu, with subscription page here: http://mailman.whoi.edu/mailman/listinfo/fontus-list
Frequently-Asked Questions
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How do I get started with the Matlab code?
See matlab/README.md for the Matlab commands to encode, modulate, demodulate, and decode an example packet. -
Can I download the Matlab as a zip file rather than using git clone?
Yes! You can use the "Download" button just to the left of the "Clone" button to download a zip file. (Although that will be a one-time snapshot rather than a link to the repository.)