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Quantitative Monitoring of the Underwater Environment

Results of the International Marine Science and Technology Event MOQESM´14 in Brest, France

  • Results of the International Conference on Underwater Environment, MOQESM’14. which took place at "Le Quartz" conference center in Brest, France, on 14 and 15 October 2014
  • Interesting for marine robotics and hydrography with applications to coastal environmental mapping and underwater infrastructure surveys
  • Combines technical control, perception and localization, typically used in robotics, with the methods of mapping and bathymetry
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Ocean Engineering & Oceanography (OEO, volume 6)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Hydrography: From Sensors to Products

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. New Developments in Precise Offshore GNSS Positioning

      • Kees de Jong, Matthew Goode, Xianglin Liu, Mark Stone
      Pages 3-12
    3. Automatic Estimation of Boresight Angles Between IMU and Multi-Beam Echo Sounder Sytems

      • Nicolas Seube, Sébastien Levilly, Kees de Jong
      Pages 13-23
    4. New Tools for Seabed Monitoring Using Multi-sensors Data Fusion

      • C. Noel, C. Viala, S. Marchetti, E. Bauer, J. M. Temmos
      Pages 25-30
    5. The European Marine Data and Observation Network (EMODnet): Your Gateway to European Marine and Coastal Data

      • Jan-Bart Calewaert, Phil Weaver, Vikki Gunn, Patrick Gorringe, Antonio Novellino
      Pages 31-46
  3. Marine Robotics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
    2. Low-Power Low-Cost Acoustic Underwater Modem

      • Christian Renner, Alexander Gabrecht, Benjamin Meyer, Christoph Osterloh, Erik Maehle
      Pages 59-65
    3. Visual Servoing for Motion Control of Coralbot Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

      • Eduardo Tusa, Neil M. Robertson, David M. Lane
      Pages 79-88
    4. Underwater Vehicle Modeling and Control Application to Ciscrea Robot

      • Rui Yang, Irvin Probst, Ali Mansours, Ming Li, Benoit Clement
      Pages 89-106
    5. SAMDIS: A New SAS Imaging System for AUV

      • Myriam Chabah, Nicolas Burlet, Jean-Philippe Malkasse, Guy Le Bihan, Bruno Quellec
      Pages 107-118
    6. Obstacle Avoidance for an Autonomous Marine Robot—A Vector Field Approach

      • Silke Schmitt, Fabrice Le Bars, Luc Jaulin, Thomas Latzel
      Pages 119-131

About this book

This volume constitutes the results of the International Conference on Underwater Environment, MOQESM’14, held at “Le Quartz” Conference Center in Brest, France, on October 14-15, 2014, within the framework of the 9th Sea Tech Week, International Marine Science and Technology Event. The objective of MOQESM'14 was to bring together researchers from both academia and industry, interested in marine robotics and hydrography with application to the coastal environment mapping and underwater infrastructures surveys.

The common thread of the conference is the combination of technical control, perception, and localization, typically used in robotics, with the methods of mapping and bathymetry.

The papers presented in this book focus on two main topics.

Firstly, coastal and infrastructure mapping is addressed, focusing not only on hydrographic systems, but also on positioning systems, bathymetry, and remote sensing. The proposed methods rely on acoustic sensors such as side scan sonars, multibeam echo sounders, phase-measuring bathymetric sonars, as well as optical systems such as underwater laser scanners. Accurate underwater positioning is also addressed in the case of the use of a single acoustic beacon, and the latest advances in increasing the vertical precision of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) are also presented.

Most of the above mentioned works are closely related to autonomous marine vehicles. Consequently, the second part of the book describes someworks concerning the methods associated with such type of vehicles. The selected papers focus on autonomous surface or underwater vehicles, detailing new approaches for localization, modeling, control, mapping, obstacle detection and avoidance, surfacing, and software development. Some of these works imply acoustics sensing as well as image processing. Set membership methods are also used in some papers.

The applications of the work presented in this book concern in particular oceanography, monitoring of oil and gas infrastructures, and military field.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ocean Sensing and Mapping, Ensta Bretagne, Brest Cedex 09, France

    Benoît Zerr, Nathalie Debese, Isabelle Quidu, Benoît Clement

  • ENSTA Bretagne, Brest Cedex 9, France

    Luc Jaulin

  • Robotic Department, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France

    Vincent Creuze

  • Pôle STIC, ENSTA Bretagne, Brest Cedex 9, France

    Annick Billon-Coat

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Quantitative Monitoring of the Underwater Environment

  • Book Subtitle: Results of the International Marine Science and Technology Event MOQESM´14 in Brest, France

  • Editors: Benoît Zerr, Luc Jaulin, Vincent Creuze, Nathalie Debese, Isabelle Quidu, Benoît Clement, Annick Billon-Coat

  • Series Title: Ocean Engineering & Oceanography

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32107-3

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32105-9Published: 21 June 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81198-7Published: 30 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32107-3Published: 03 June 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2194-6396

  • Series E-ISSN: 2194-640X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 131

  • Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 69 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Robotics and Automation, Offshore Engineering, Oceanography

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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