An underwater robotic network for monitoring nuclear waste storage pools

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 24 LNICST, Issue , 2010, Pages 236-255

  Nawaz, Sarfraz ^a   Hussain, Muzammil ^a   Watson, Simon ^b   Trigoni, Niki ^a   Green, Peter N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SCENARIO; CURRENT ENERGY; ENVIRONMENT MAPPING; ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE; INTERNAL STRUCTURE; LOCATION ERRORS; MOBILE SENSOR NETWORKS; NUCLEAR WASTE STORAGE; PERMANENT DISPOSAL; ROBOT LOCALIZATION; SENSING SYSTEMS; STORAGE POOL; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTS; UNDERWATER ROBOTICS; UNDERWATER SENSOR NETWORKS; UNDERWATER STORAGE; WASTE REMOVAL; WASTE STORAGE; WIDE SPREADS; WORLD POPULATION;

DISASTER PREVENTION; ENERGY CONVERSION; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LAKES; NUCLEAR ENERGY; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; ROBOT APPLICATIONS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SENSORS; UNDERWATER POWER PLANTS; WASTE DISPOSAL;

RADIOACTIVE WASTE STORAGE;

EID: 80052570937     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11528-8_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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