Towards Posidonia Meadows Detection, Mapping and Automatic recognition using Unmanned Marine Vehicles

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 12386-12391

  Ferretti, Roberta ^a   Bibuli, Marco ^a   Caccia, Massimo ^a   Chiarella, Davide ^a   Odetti, Angelo ^a   Ranieri, Andrea ^a   Zereik, Enrica ^a   Bruzzone, Gabriele ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MAPPING;

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; LOW VISIBILITY CONDITIONS; POSIDONIA OCEANICA; PROCEDURAL ANALYSIS; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES (ROV); SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATION;

REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES;

EID: 85044268156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 24058963     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.2504     Document Type: Conference Paper

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