Thermocline tracking based on peak-gradient detection by an autonomous underwater vehicle

MTS/IEEE Seattle, OCEANS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Yanwu ^a   Bellingham, James G ^a   Godin, Michael ^a   Ryan, John P ^a   McEwen, Robert S ^a   Kieft, Brian ^a   Hobson, Brett ^a   Hoover, Thomas ^a  

^a MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV); Peak gradient detection; Thermocline

Indexed keywords

FIELD TEST; GRADIENT DETECTION; MARINE ECOLOGY; MONTEREY BAY; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OCEANOGRAPHIC SURVEYS; POST PROCESSING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; THERMOCLINE;

ALGORITHMS; DATA HANDLING; ECOLOGY; STREAM FLOW; SUBMERSIBLES; SURVEYS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; WATER CRAFT;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 78651308086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2010.5664545     Document Type: Conference Paper

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