A Smart Sensor Web for Ocean Observation: Fixed and Mobile Platforms, Integrated Acoustics, Satellites and Predictive Modeling

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 507-521

  Howe, Bruce M ^a   Chao, Yi ^b,c   Arabshahi, Payman ^d   McGinnis, Tim ^d   Roy, Sumit ^e   Gray, Andrew ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Los Angeles   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; acoustic navigation; inductive power transfer; mission planning; moored profilers; underwater gliders

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS; ACOUSTIC NAVIGATION; INDUCTIVE POWER TRANSFER; MISSION PLANNING; MOORED PROFILERS; UNDERWATER GLIDERS;

CALIBRATION; CHARGING (BATTERIES); CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNICATION; DATA HANDLING; EARTH (PLANET); GLIDERS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; MOORING; MOORING CABLES; NAVIGATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; REAL TIME CONTROL; SATELLITES; SMART SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INDUCTIVE SENSORS;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; EARTH SCIENCE; EOS; MODELING; MOORING SYSTEM; PROFILER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE SENSOR;

EID: 78650424936     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2010.2052022     Document Type: Article

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