Acoustic and visual instrumentation for survey of manganese crusts using an underwater vehicle

OCEANS 2012 MTS/IEEE: Harnessing the Power of the Ocean

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Thornton, Blair ^a   Bodenmann, Adrian ^a   Asada, Akira ^a   Sato, Takumi ^a   Ura, Tamaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; COLOR RECONSTRUCTION; CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; CRUST LAYER; SEA FLOOR; SEA TRIAL; UNDERWATER VEHICLES; VISUAL INSTRUMENTS; VISUAL MAPPING;

INSTRUMENTS; MANGANESE; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SURVEYS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EID: 84873607886     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2012.6404789     Document Type: Conference Paper

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