The SIDENAV and DEEPFLOAT innitiatives aims to develop a demonstrator that validates and apply technology that enables golds between the exploitation of mineral resources in deep-sea waters under Portuguese jurisdiction ...

It is at least two decades since the conventional robotic manipulators have become a common manufacturing tool for different industries, from automotive to pharmaceutical. The advances in manipulators and sensors have given ...

This document shows the study carried out to demonstrate the feasibility of using piezoelectric devices in oceanographic buoys, as generators of electric power for feeding the buoy system. One of the basic problems in an ...

Underwater image processing has to face the problem of loss of color and contrast that occurs when images are acquired at a certain depth and range. The longer wavelengths of sunlight such as red or orange are rapidly ...

We describe the Ripples cloud-based software for coordination and control of multiple remote assets. Ripples can ingest and disseminate data coming from multiple sources such as physical models, drifting sensors, marine ...

We describe a novel approach to physical oceanography by coordinating remote sensing, multiple autonomous vehicles and ship borne sensors. In contrast with conventional oceanography where ships are the single point of ...

In this study, coastal bathymetry is estimated with a wave ray-tracing algorithm using wave parameters retrieved from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images acquired by the Sentinel-1 satellites. The method relies on the ...

Advances in the harmonisation and dissemination of underway data from research vessels in the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) fleets will be presented.

The EMSO-Azores deep sea observatory is a component of the EMSO ERIC. It focuses on two main questions: What are the feedbacks between volcanism, deformation, seismicity, and hydrothermalism at a slow spreading mid-ocean ...

A low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) is a wireless communication network designed to send low bit rates in a long-range communication. SigFox is a LPWAN technology that uses Ultra Narrow Band to communicate packages of ...

This article is a description about how to take advantage of an underwater PTZ camera to obtain an immersive panoramic image of the seabed environment.

Underwater noise has been significantly raising in the past decades due to an increment of human-related activities in the oceans such as shipping, industrial activities, seismic explorations, coastal developments, etc. ...

Nowadays, the use of autonomous vehicles for ocean research has increased, since these vehicles have a better cost/performance ratio than crewed vessels or oceanographic ships. For example, autonomous surface vehicles can ...

This paper aims to demonstrate the capabilities of a Smart Cable which aims to convert any commercial non-PUCK-enabled sensor in a Smart PUCK-enabled device. Through this development, it can be easily integrated on a sensor ...

This article presents the RAMICA owen. The whole RAMICA sensor is able to implement a complete culture of bacteria inside a buoy. It does a culture every day, for 3 months, and sends data in real time. This allows to monitor ...

Bearing in mind the growing importance of reliable temporal data series for scientific surveys and monitoring related to climate change and extreme events, among other things, the ANTEIA System was developed as a cost-effective ...

Rivers runoff exert a strong influence in their neighbouring coastal area in several ways, modifying the water stratification, introducing significant fluctuations in circulation patterns and modulating the impact of ...

Underwater noise has been significantly raising in the past decades due to an increment of human-related activities in the oceans such as shipping, industrial activities, seismic explorations, etc. These activities may ...

MARTECH congregates a broad research community dedicated to developing innovative equipment in the fields of marine sciences and technology. In 2018, this diverse community will meet in Porto, Portugal, at the Faculty of ...