DocumentCode :
3160492
Title :
Highlights from latest sea-operations in the Macaronesian region with unmanned autonomous marine gliding vehicles
Author :
Barrera, C. ; Morales, Tania ; Viera, Jose ; Lorenzo, Antonio ; Vega, David ; Llinas, O. ; Rueda, Maria Jose
Author_Institution :
Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands, Telde, Spain
fYear :
2013
fDate :
10-14 June 2013
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
7
Abstract :
Current advances on key marine technology fields provide nowadays a broad range of autonomous unmanned platforms addressed for an efficient and cost-effective ocean observation, with a suitable level of success in terms of endurance, reliability and useful gathered information. In this context, a multidisciplinary family of unmanned autonomous vehicles addressed to monitor both coastal and open-ocean areas plays a relevant role. Over the last months, some of the newest unmanned gliding-vehicle technologies have been tested within the context of the Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN) in varied operational scenarios aiming different technical and scientific purposes, all of them joined in direct partnership with the company provider and other R&D institutions in some cases. Among others, representative examples in this way are the missions under the name Challenger One, Volcano and SB02 through surface and underwater gliding vehicles, performed mostly in the surrounding subtropical waters of the ESTOC ocean observatory in the Canary Islands archipelago. The main gathered operational and scientific results from these missions are presented in this work as a sign of new ocean observing technologies within the framework of the Macaronesian Marine and Maritime Observation Strategy (R3M) and linked with the current European rules, programs and projects in this field.
Keywords :
marine control; remotely operated vehicles; Canary Islands archipelago; Challenger One mission; ESTOC ocean observatory; European programs; European projects; European rules; Macaronesian Marine and Maritime Observation Strategy; Macaronesian region; Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands; PLOCAN; R&D institutions; R3M; SB02 mission; Volcano mission; autonomous unmanned platforms; coastal area monitoring; company provider; endurance; information gathering; marine technology fields; open-ocean area monitoring; operational scenarios; reliability; scientific purpose; sea-operations; subtropical waters; surface gliding vehicles; technical purpose; underwater gliding vehicles; unmanned autonomous marine gliding vehicles; Monitoring; Ocean temperature; Satellites; Sea measurements; Sea surface; Spatial resolution; ESTOC; R3M; autonomous vehicle; gliders; marine robotics; monitoring; ocean observatory;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
OCEANS - Bergen, 2013 MTS/IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bergen
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0000-8
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS-Bergen.2013.6608130
Filename :
6608130
Link To Document :
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