Development of a marine fisheries survey data entry app able to run offline and route data when connected as needed to the states doing collection and/or their partners. The app must be sufficiently flexible/configurable to accommodate the range of data across different existing survey types (some 12 or more) as well as surveys that can be envisioned but are not yet underway. It must also be configurable for uploading/routing collected data to designated state repositories. A main feature of the app would be to standardize the data elements across all states and enforce collection consistency and enhance data quality. It is conceivable that rapidly advancing AI capability might be embedded to augment collection facts with image processing and machine vision. https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/79/2/263/6511219#338443363
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/developing-machine-vision-collect-more-timely-fisheries-data