Experimental evaluation of an autonomous surface vehicle for water quality and greenhouse gas emission monitoring

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5268-5274

  Dunbabin, Matthew ^a   Grinham, Alistair ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SAMPLING; AVOID OBSTACLES; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; INLAND WATERS; MANUAL MONITORING; OBSTACLE AVOIDANCE; QUALITY PROPERTIES; SOLAR-POWERED; SURFACE VEHICLES; VEHICLE NAVIGATION; WATER COLUMNS; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; MONITORING; ROBOTICS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

GAS EMISSIONS;

EID: 77955796061     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509187     Document Type: Conference Paper

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