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Commercial Marine Expo
Commercial Marine Expo, a regional business-to-business trade show serving commercial marine and fishing...
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New Concepts in High-Data-Rate, Cable-Free
Underwater Networks
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Exploring Ocean Flow Models With a Multitouch 3D Interface
Due to the constant increases in the complexity and amount of available hydrographic data, there is....
Autonomous PowerBuoys Generate Power for Ocean Applications
Converting the energy from waves into electricity is certainly not a new...
Headlines
May 2012 Issue
COMMUNICATIONS
TELEMETRY
DATA PROCESSING
COVER
The ROPOS ROV, owned and operated by the Canadian Scientific Submersible Facility, deploys a Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea (VENUS) instrument platform from the RV Thomas G. Thompson in July 2011. See the editorial from Richard Dewey, VENUS associate director of research, on page 7 for more on deploying acoustic devices in ocean observatories. (Photo by VENUS)
FEATURE ARTICLES
US GOVERNMENT FISCAL YEAR 2013 BUDGET
Sea Technology’s annual review of the president’s budget takes a look at funding for various ocean-related agencies.
VISUALIZING LARGE ENVIRONMENTAL DATA SETS IN A GLOBAL 4D VIEWER
Duke J. Hartman, Greg Rocheleau and Dr. John C. Anderson (Makai Ocean Engineering Inc.) detail the making of the interactive viewer Makai Voyager and how it was used to analyze hydrodynamic plume models.
NEW CONCEPTS IN HIGH-DATA-RATE, CABLE-FREE UNDERWATER NETWORKS
Craig Benson (University of New South Wales) explains the development of two new hydroacoustic modem concepts to allow high-frequency communication over long ranges.
UNDERSEA DEFENCE TECHNOLOGY 2012
—Conference Preview
ENERGYOCEAN INTERNATIONAL 2012
—Conference Preview
NOIA 2012 ANNUAL MEETING REVIEW
—Conference Review
COMMERCIAL MARINE EXPO
—Conference Preview
EXPLORING OCEAN FLOW MODELS WITH A MULTITOUCH 3D INTERFACE
Dr. Thomas Butkiewicz (University of New Hampshire) discusses a new visualization system that allows users to generate ocean flow models to simulate pollutant releases and aid survey mission planning.
DEPARTMENTS
NEXT MONTH:
Deploying rugged autoreporting bottom-positioned oxygen and temperature sensors on crab pots. ... Using colocated side scan imagery to verify patch test results of a multibeam sonar. ... Low-altitude AUV terrain navigation using an interferometric side scan sonar. ... Using manned submersibles to create 3D sonar scans of shipwrecks. ... Vessels supporting satellite measurements for marine atmosphere and ocean research. ... High-resolution seafloor and subsurface mapping offshore California’s Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.
