Acoustically focused adaptive sampling and on-board routing for marine rapid environmental assessment

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 78, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Ding ^a   Lermusiaux, Pierre F J ^a   Haley, Patrick J ^a   Eickstedt, Donald ^a   Leslie, Wayne G ^a   Schmidt, Henrik ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic propagation; Adaptive sampling; AOSN; Autonomous underwater vehicle; AUV; Data assimilation; Decision making under uncertainty; Error subspace; ESSE; Feature tracking; Ocean modeling; Ocean observing system; Path planning; Pianosa island; Primitive equations; Tyrrhenian sea; Vehicle routing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; DECISION MAKING; FORECASTING; MOTION PLANNING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SAMPLING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; VEHICLE ROUTING;

ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION; ADAPTIVE SAMPLING; AOSN; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY; ESSE; FEATURE-TRACKING; OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEMS; PIANOSA ISLAND; PRIMITIVE EQUATIONS; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ACOUSTIC METHOD; ALGORITHM; AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DECISION MAKING; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATORY; OPTIMIZATION; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRACKING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ITALY; LIVORNO [TUSCANY]; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PIANOSA; TUSCAN ARCHIPELAGO; TUSCANY; TYRRHENIAN SEA;

EID: 69549117962     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2009.01.037     Document Type: Article

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