Recent Submissions

  • Acquisition system for the “EMSO Generic Instrument Module” (EGIM) and analysis of the first data obtained during its deployement at OBSEA (Spain) 

    Garcia, Oscar; Toma, Daniel; Dañobeita Canales, Juan José; Río Fernández, Joaquín del; Bartolome de la Peña, Rafael; Martínez Padró, Enoc; Nogueras Cervera, Marc; Bghiel, Ikram; Lanteri, Nadine; Francois Rolin, Jean; Beranzoli, Laura; Favali, P. (European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2017)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    The EMSODEV project (EMSO implementation and operation: DEVelopment of instrument module) is an Horizon-2020 UE project whose overall objective is the operation of eleven sea¿oor observatories and four test sites. These ...
  • Experimental validation and modelling of electromagnetic kinetic harvester for oceans drifters 

    Toma, Daniel; Jané, Quim; Carbonell Ventura, Montserrat; Massana Hugas, Immaculada; Río Fernández, Joaquín del (2017)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Harvesting the mechanical energy of ocean motion are finding different applications for offshore exploration and ocean monitoring. Because of the very low and varying frequency, from 0.1Hz to 2Hz, harvesting this energy ...
  • CARACTERIZACIÓN DE POSICIONAMIENTO EN EL MEDIO MARINO MEDIANTE MÉTODOS ACÚSTICOS 

    Masmitjà Rusiñol, Ivan; Garcia Benadí, Albert; Gomáriz Castro, Spartacus; Río Fernández, Joaquín del (2017)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    En la actualidad se realizan numerosos estudios en el medio marino, muchos de ellos utilizan vehículos que se desplazan por el fondo marino. En este entorno los sistemas de posicionamiento por satélite no son operativos ...
  • Design a vectorial propulsion system for Guanay II AUV 

    Galarza Bogotá, Cesar Mauricio; Masmitjà Rusiñol, Ivan; Prat Tasias, Jordi; Gomáriz Castro, Spartacus (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The autonomous underwater vehicle(AUV) Guanay II was designed to navigate on the surface of the sea, and to realize a vertical immersion in specific points. This vehicle has three thrusters located on stern, oriented ...
  • Underwater mobile target tracking with particle filter using an autonomous vehicle 

    Masmitjà Rusiñol, Ivan; Bouvet, Pierre-Jean; Gomáriz Castro, Spartacus; Aguzzi, Jacopo; Río Fernández, Joaquín del (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    This paper describes an underwater mobile target localization and tracking by using an autonomous surface vehicle for which the successive ranges between the target and the reference are the only information. In a dynamic ...
  • Accuracy and precision studies for range-only underwater target tracking in shallow waters 

    Masmitjà Rusiñol, Ivan; Bouvet, Pierre-Jean; Gomáriz Castro, Spartacus; Aguzzi, Jacopo; Río Fernández, Joaquín del; Toma, Daniel (2017)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    This paper studies the precision, and the accuracy, of an underwater target tracking system, using range-only and single-beacon methods, in shallow waters environments. For this study, different field tests have been ...
  • L’home de la Lluna. Una visió de la Lluna des de la tradició popular 

    Munné-Jordà, Antoni; Moreno Lupiáñez, Manuel (INSTITUT D'ESTUDIS CATALANS. BARCELONA, 2017)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
  • The module for ocean observatory data analysis of EMSO 

    Bardají Benach, Raúl; Bartolomé de la Peña, Rafael; Dañobeita Canales, Juan José; García, Oscar; Río Fernández, Joaquín del; Piera, Jaume (2017)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-column Observatory (EMSO) is a large-scale, distributed, Marine Research Infrastructure (RI). EMSO consists of ocean observation systems for long-term, high-resolution, ...
  • OBSEA, a marine sensor testing site for metrology 

    Carandell Widmer, Matias; Garcia Benadí, Albert; Río Fernández, Joaquín del (2017)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Marine sensors needs to be tested in real and controlled environments in order to assure, both, proper functionality of the sensor and good enough measurements. Most of the times is not enough testing on the lab, field ...
  • TRACEABLE SEA TEMPERATURE VERTICAL PROFILE MEASURED BY OPTICAL FIBERS 

    Garcia Benadí, Albert; Río Fernández, Joaquín del; Nogueras Cervera, Marc; Pulido de Torres, Carlos; García Izquierdo, Carmen; del Campo, D; Corredera, Pedro (IEEE Press, 2017)
    Conference report
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    Measurement of the seawater temperature at different depths to get a vertical temperature profile on the water column is presented in this paper: The acquisition system based on optical fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) and the ...
  • Traceable sea temperature measurements performed by optical fibers 

    García Izquierdo, Carmen; Garcia Benadí, Albert; Río Fernández, Joaquín del; Nogueras Cervera, Marc (2017)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    In the framework of the EMRP project “ENV 58. Metrology for essential climate variables”, a new technique to perform traceable temperature measurements of the sea water column and sea water surface was designed and it is ...
  • La Lluna, la pruna: visions de la Lluna al cinema i la literatura 

    Moreno Lupiáñez, Manuel; Munné-Jordà, Antoni (INSTITUT D'ESTUDIS CATALANS. BARCELONA, 2017)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    La Lluna és un element amb entitat pròpia en les ficcions cinematogràfica i literària. Des del pioner film Le Voyage dans la Lune (1902) a Darkness (2002) o del clàssic literari King Solomon’s Mines (1885) a la popular ...

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