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This paper considers a technology based on an autonomous unmanned underwater vehicle (AUV) MMT-3000, which was deployed in the integrated surveys of Antarctic ecosystems and deep-sea biological resources in the southern seas during the expedition onboard the R/V “Akademik Mstislav Keldysh” (cruise #79) in 2020. The proposed technology included also mission planning, software development, AUV operation, and organization of submersions and interactions with the mothership’s crew. The report addresses issues such as upgrading the AUV MMT-3000 to provide visual evaluation of zooplankton density in the water column and distribution of benthic animals, as well as equipping this AUV with a set of sensors to measure the hydrophysical and hydrochemical characteristics of the environment. The main results obtained in the course of the deep-sea missions are presented.
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The authors express their sincere gratitude to the crew of the R/V Akademik Mstislav Keldysh for the highly professional support of the AUV launches. The authors also thank all members of the Institute of Marine Technology Problems, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, who participated in the preparatory works, upgrading, and preliminary tests of the AUV MMT-3000.
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The improvement of the operator’s post software and the algorithms for processing data from the onboard sensors were implemented with the financial support of the Grant of the Ministry of Science and Education, Russian Federation 13.1902.21.0012 «Fundamental Problems of Study and Conservation of Deep-Sea Ecosystems in Potentially Ore-Bearing Areas of the Northwestern Pacific» (agreement №075-15-2020-796).
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Konoplin, A.Y. et al. (2021). Application of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Research of Ecosystems in the Southern Ocean. In: Morozov, E.G., Flint, M.V., Spiridonov, V.A. (eds) Antarctic Peninsula Region of the Southern Ocean. Advances in Polar Ecology, vol 6. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78927-5_28
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