A SURVEY OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES IN SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS

At a rough estimate 70% of the Earth's surface is covered by seawater in the form of lakes, rivers, seas or oceans. A study by the United States government concluded that all the water across the Earth would fit into a nearly 1,400-kilometer-long balloon. Water also exists in the air in form of...

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Published in:Scientific Bulletin ("Mircea cel Bătrân" Naval Academy) 2017-12, Vol.XX (2), p.53-56
Main Authors: Nedelcu, Andra-Teodora, Clinci, Catalin-Paul
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Autonomous underwater vehicles
Autonomous vehicles
Balloons
Earth
Earth science
Earth surface
Extreme environments
Glacial drift
Glaciation
Glaciers
Ice sheets
Lakes
Mapping
Ocean floor
Oceans
Polar caps
Policies
Rivers
Seafloor mapping
Seawater
Surveying
Underwater exploration
Underwater vehicles
Vapors
Vents
Water vapor
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Summary:At a rough estimate 70% of the Earth's surface is covered by seawater in the form of lakes, rivers, seas or oceans. A study by the United States government concluded that all the water across the Earth would fit into a nearly 1,400-kilometer-long balloon. Water also exists in the air in form of water vapors, in lakes and debris, in polar caps and in glaciers and in living creatures. The quest for understanding what lies below the water bodies has motivated the development of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs).Nowadays, the Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV's) have an extensive palette of applications in marine geoscience, and day after day presents an important increase in the scientific, commercial, military, and policy sectors. The ability and the possibility to operate autonomously on board of vessel, makes them very usefully and suitable for exploration of extreme environments, beginning to the deepest small vents and finishing with polar ice sheets. The vehicle helps us to improve our ability to image the seafloor, ensuring a higher resolution of seafloor mapping data that can be obtained from surface vessel.
ISSN:2392-8956
1454-864X
1454-864X
2392-8956
DOI:10.21279/1454-864X-17-I2-012