Acoustic communication performance of the WHOI micro-modem in sea trials of the nereus vehicle to 11,000 m depth

MTS/IEEE Biloxi - Marine Technology for Our Future: Global and Local Challenges, OCEANS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Singh, Sandipa ^a   Webster, Sarah E ^b   Freitag, Lee ^a   Whitcomb, Louis L ^a,b   Ball, Keenan ^a   Bailey, John ^a   Taylor, Chris ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS; AUTONOMOUS OPERATIONS; CARRIER FREQUENCY; DATA RATES; FIBEROPTIC CABLES; HYBRID VEHICLES; MARIANA TRENCH; MICRO-MODEM; SEA TRIAL; SYSTEMS AND CONTROL; WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIONS;

AVIATION; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MARINE ENGINEERING; MODEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SUBMERSIBLES; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; WATER CRAFT;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 77951577118     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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