Assessing the deepwater horizon oil spill with the sentry autonomous underwater vehicle

IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 261-267

  Kinsey, James C ^a   Yoerger, Dana R ^a   Jakuba, Michael V ^b   Camilli, Rich ^a   Fisher, Charles R ^c   German, Christopher R ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC RESEARCH; BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITY; BROADER IMPACTS; DEEPWATER; HYDROCARBON PLUME; MANNED SUBMERSIBLES; SENSING TECHNOLOGY;

HYDROCARBONS; INTELLIGENT ROBOTS; OIL SPILLS; ROBOTICS; SUBMERSIBLES; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; WATER CRAFT;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES;

EID: 84455161670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2011.6048700     Document Type: Conference Paper

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