Adaptive sampling of thermoclines with autonomous underwater vehicles

MTS/IEEE Seattle, OCEANS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Cruz, Nuno A ^a   Matos, Aníbal C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SAMPLING; CTD DATA; DAM RESERVOIRS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; PAYLOAD DATA; REAL TIME; REGIONS OF INTEREST; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTS; VERY SHALLOW WATERS;

RESERVOIRS (WATER); STREAM FLOW; SUBMERSIBLES; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; WATER CRAFT;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 78651336790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2010.5663903     Document Type: Conference Paper

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