2016, núm. 19

 

Aquest número conté el llibre d'abstracts del 7th International Workshop on Marine Technology (MARTECH 2016)

Summary

  • Recent technical innovations around HF radar technology and steps towards integrated national HF radar networks 

    López, Ismael; Alonso-Martirena, Andrés; Sánchez, Jorge; Agostinho, Pedro; Fernandes, Maria; Benmoussa, Zouhair; Oulhassan, Abderrahim (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    HF Radar is a proven technology for ocean observing that has at present more than 600 references in the world and which is since April 2016 in application on all continents for the purpose of 2D surface currents and waves ...

  • Development and calibration of a cost-effective temperature sensor 

    Álvarez, Pablo; Almécija, Ana; González, Ignacio; Torres, Silvia (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Oceanographic sensors are accurate and reliable but very expensive. We have developed and calibrated a cheap temperature sensor with a good cost/ accuracy ratio.

  • Smart and networking underwater robots in cooperation meshes : the swarms ECSEL : H2020 project 

    Real-Arce, Daniel A.; Morales, Tania; Barrera, C.; Hernández, J.; Llinás, O. (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The work presented on this paper is aimed to explain the role that unmanned underwater vehicles (AUVs/ROVs) plays in the ECSEL-H2020 SWARMS project. The main goal of the project is to reduce the operational cost and ...

  • Towards a better use of arctic marine infrastructure: EU-PolarNet, EUROFLEETS2 and ARICE 

    Biebow, Nicole; Willmott, Veronica (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The Polar Regions may seem remote, but the observed rapid changes now affecting both the Arctic and Antarctic regions have resulted in significant consequences for the weather and climate in lower latitudes, including ...

  • Improving ocean-glider's payload with a new generation of spectrophotometric PH sensor 

    Almisas, C.; Barrera, C.; Waldmann, Christoph; Precheur, H.; Meckel, S. (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Ocean gliders have clearly become nowadays useful autonomous platforms addressed to measure a wide range of seawater parameters in a more sustainable and efficient way. This new ocean monitoring approach has implied the ...

  • Seven years of marine environmental changes monitoring at coastal OOCS stations (Catalan Sea, NW Mediterranean) 

    Bahamón Rivera, Nixon; Ahumada Sempoal, M.A.; Bernardello, Raffaele; Aguzzi, Jacopo; Gordoa, A.; Carreras, G.; Velasquez, Z.; Cruzado, A. (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Since March 2009 up to the present (more than 7 years now), the Operational Observatory of the Catalan Sea (OOCS; http://www2.ceab.csic.es/ oceans/) remains a witness of persistent marine environmental changes. The ...

  • Development of a ROV titanium manipulator for light work class ROV vehicles 

    Garay, Gaizka X.; Sosa, Dario (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    This paper shows the development of a high technical equipment to be used as tooling of submersible ROV (Remote Operated Vehicles) for offshore operations, particularly the design and fabrication by Additive Manufacturing ...

  • Smartbay: the development and implementation of an advanced marine technology platform on the west coast of Ireland 

    Berry, Alan; Gaughan, Paul; Aonghusa, Caitriona Nic (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    This paper is about the development, implementation and operation of SmartBay - a subsea cabled observatory and supporting infrastructure to stimulate the development of marine technology in Ireland. Blue Growth is the ...

  • EMSO-Azores : six years of continuous monitoring of a deep sea hydrothermal vents - technical results 

    Legrand, Julien; Blandin, Jérome; Sarradin, Pierre Marie; Cannat, Mathilde; Coail, Jean-Yves; Pichavant, Pascal; Guyader, Gérard; Lanteri, Nadine; Carval, Thierry (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Since 2010, the EMSO Azores non-cabled deep sea observatory acquires scientific data on the Lucky Strike vent field on the mid Atlantic ridge. This paper presents the marine infrastructure of EMSO Azores observatory ...

  • A 3D mapping, obstacle avoidance and acoustic communication payload for the AUV SPARUS II 

    Massot Campos, Miquel; Bonin Font, Francisco; Negre Carrasco, Pep Lluís; Guerrero, Eric; Martorell, Antoni; Oliver Codina, Gabriel Antonio (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    This paper presents the new payload for Turbot, the SPARUS II AUV unit, manufactured by the University of Girona and recently acquired by the Systems, Robotics and Vision Group of the University of the Balearic ...

  • Optical fibers to measure temperature vertical profile at sea 

    Garcia Benadí, Albert; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del; Nogueras Cervera, Marc; Garcia Izquierdo, C.; Campo, D. del; Hernández, S. (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The paper is focus in the use the optical fiber to measure the temperature in various heigh at the same time to get a temperature vertical variation. The temperature measurements are puntual while the Bragg gratings ...

  • Multibeam systems for the detection of gas flares in the water column 

    Zwanzig, Christian (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Wärtsilä ELAC Nautik is one major global player in the multibeam business. The multibeam systems are marketed under the well-known brand name SeaBeam, including systems for medium water depth and deep-water areas. The ...

  • Acoustic system for physical oceanography research in deep ocean 

    Biescas, Berta; Sallarès, Valentí; Mojica, Jhon; Carniel, Sandro (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Marine multichannel seismic (MCS) data, used to obtain structural reflection images of the Earth’s subsurface, can also be used in physical oceanography exploration. This method provides vertical and lateral resolutions of ...

  • IOBSERVER: species recognition via computer vision 

    Martín Rodríguez, Fernando; Barral Martínez, Mónica; Besteiro Fernández, Ángel; Vilán Vilán, José Antonio (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    This paper is about the design of an automated computer vision system that is able to recognize the species of fish individuals that are classified into a fishing vessel and produces a report file with that information. ...

  • Measurement errors with low-cost citizen science radiometers 

    Bardají, R.; Piera Fernández, Jaume (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The KdUINO is a Do-It-Yourself buoy with low-cost radiometers that measure a parameter related to water transparency, the diffuse attenuation coefficient integrated into all the photosynthetically active radiation. In ...

  • Real-time lossless compression of multibeam echosounder water column data 

    Amblas, David; Portell de Mora, Jordi; Rayo, Xavier; Villafranca, Alberto G.; García-Berro Montilla, Enrique; Canals, Miquel (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Multibeam echosounders can generate vast amounts of data when recording the complete water column, which poses logistic, economic and technical challenges. Lossy data compression can reduce data size up to one or two ...

  • INNDAGA: an environmental data acquisition innovation platform 

    Rey, Daniel; Rubio, Belén; Bernabeu, Ana; Vilas, Federico; Mohamed, Kais; Otero, Miguel (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    INNDAGA is a multipurpose platform for conducting oceanographic surveys in coastal areas developed on an 8.5 m long inflatable boat. This concept allows the vessel to operate safely and with great manoeuvring flexibility ...

  • Bares 2.0 wave buoy and sustainable buoy network 

    González, P.; Fernández, X. (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The aim of this article is to show the operation of the Bares 2.0 wave buoy and the Bares network developed by HCTech. In the marine sector it is highly important to know the state of the sea for applications such as the ...

  • Using ORB, BoW and SVM to identify and track tagged Norway lobster Nephrops norvegicus (L.) 

    García del Arco, José Antonio; Masip, David; Sbragaglia, Valerio; Aguzzi, Jacopo (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Sustainable capture policies of many species strongly depend on the understanding of their social behaviour. Nevertheless, the analysis of emergent behaviour in marine species poses several challenges. Usually animals ...

  • Integrating data from vessel monitoring system and fish landings in Menditerranean small fleets, using a PostgreSQL database with PostGIS extension 

    García del Arco, José Antonio; Company, Joan B.; Aguzzi, Jacopo; Gorelli, Giulia (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Geospatial technologies represent an advance in knowledge of marine ecosystems, allowing approach the study of the potential effect of world fishing fleets and their dynamics. Nevertheless, their application to fisheries ...

  • First AUV and ROV investigation of seismogenic faults in the Alboran Sea (Western Meditarranean) 

    Gràcia, Eulàlia; Perea, Hector; Bartolomé de la Peña, Rafael; Lo Iacono, Claudio; Costa, Sergio; Díez, Susana; Placaud, Xavier; Smith, Chris; Rodríguez, Pablo; Sánchez, Héctor; Dañobeitia, Juan José (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    In May-June 2015 we carried out the SHAKE cruise on board the RV “Sarmiento de Gamboa” the first in situ investigation using state-of-the-art underwater vehicles, the AUVs “AsterX” and “IdefX” (IFREMER, France) and the ...

  • Automatic fish counting from underwater video images: performance estimation and evaluation 

    Marini, S.; Azzurro, E.; Coco, S.; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del; Enguídanos, S.; Fanelli, E.; Nogueras Cervera, Marc; Sbragaglia, Valerio; Toma, Daniel; Aguzzi, Jacopo (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Cabled observatories offer new opportunities to monitor species abundances at frequencies and durations never attained before. When nodes bear cameras, these may be transformed into the first sensor capable of quantifying ...

  • AUV/ASC cooperative survey 

    Palomeras, Narcís; Hurtós, Natalia; Carreras, Marc (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    In this paper we describe a solution to perform autonomous surveys taking advantage of a cooperative multivehicle setup. In the proposed configuration, an ASC provides –through an USBL- absolute positioning and communications ...

  • 5 year-long monitoring of Barkley Canyon cold-seeps with the internet operated deep-sea crawler "Wally" 

    Chatzievangelou, Damianos; Thomsen, Laurez; Purser, Autun; Doya, Carolina; Aguzzi, Jacopo; Schwendner, Jacob; Duda, Alexander; Best, Mairi M.R.; Leo, Fabio De; Juniper, Kim (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Despite the technological advances of the last decades (e.g. ROVs, AUVs, cabled observatories), our knowledge of most deep-sea environments is still strongly limited by spatio-temporal sampling and observational capabilities. ...

  • Video monitoring of Sparidae temporal rhythms: three-year study by OBSEA cabled observatory 

    Coco, S.; Sbragaglia, Valerio; Fanelli, E.; Azzurro, E.; Marini, S.; Enguidanos, S.; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del; Nogueras Cervera, Marc; Toma, Daniel; Ponti, M.; Aguzzi, Jacopo (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The abundance and composition of fish assemblages varies at different temporal scales as a product of diel and annual rhythms. In this study, we used a video-wired observatory (OBSEA, www.obsea.es) to monitor annual ...

  • Technological and infrastructure collaborative seismic research in Western Mexico 

    Bartolomé de la Peña, Rafael; Dañobeitia, Juan José; Cameselle, Alejandra L.; Cordoba, Diego; Núñez Cornú, Francisco; Day, Colin; Bandy, William L.; Prada, Manel; Perea, Héctor; Mortera Gutiérrez, Carlos A.; Nuñez, Diana; Castellón, Arturo; Alonso, José Luis (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    In February and March 2014, Spanish, Mexican and British scientists and technicians explored the western margin of Mexico, a region with a high occurrence of large earthquakes (> Mw = 7.5) and tsunami generation, on board ...

  • Seabed monitoring with Girona 500 AUV working as HROV 

    Carreras, Marc; Gori, Andrea; Mallios, Angelos; Palomeras, Narcís; Linares, Cristina; Gili, Josep Maria; Ribas Romagos, David; Hurtós, Natàlia; Magí, Lluís; Ridao, Pere (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    This paper presents the use of Girona 500 AUV as a Hybrid ROV (HROV) to inspect underwater habitats by combining basic teleoperation and automatic way-point following. This duality allows safe movements, when inspecting ...

  • Development of a prototype for submarine communications in shallow waters 

    Mariscal Rico, Luis A.; Gómez Castillo, Leopoldo; Rychkov, Eugene; Figueroa Recio, Manuel; Corzo Rodríguez, Alfonso; Bohórquez Ferrando, Julio; Papaspyrou, Sokratis (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The Telecommunications Marine Laboratory (TML) of the University of Cádiz takes part in a research project to study the intertidal sediments of the Bay of Cádiz. The collection of samples from the seabed and the transmission ...

  • Precise OBS location at the sea bottom in active seismic profiles using the air gun shot records 

    Pazos, A.; Granja Bruña, José Luis; Davila, J.M.; Carbó Gorosabel, Andrés; Cabieces, R.; Rodríguez Zurrunero, Roberto; Santos Loaisa, José; Gorosabel Araus, José Miguel; Quijano, Jesús; Ambrós Ferrer, Marc (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The Norcaribe campaign, in November – December 2013, funded by Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Science (Norcaribe Project CGL2010-17715), was performed on board of the Spanish research vessel “Sarmiento de Gamboa” around ...

  • Review of lessons learned after five years of shallow water autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) operations 

    Rodríguez Fornes, Pablo; Pujol Vilanova, Núria; Cusí, Simó; Dañobeitia, Juan José (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The Unidad de Tecnología Marina (UTM) acquired in 2010, due to the wide scientific requirement to obtain high quality images of the seafloor, a couple of AUV´s for shallow waters applications with the aim to support ...

  • Near real time seismic data from the coastal ocean 

    Toma, Daniel; Roset Juan, Francesc Xavier; Alonso Seyos, Xavier; Artero Delgado, Carola; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    A moored-buoy system for collecting near real-time seismic data from the coastal ocean has been developed and will be deployed for its initial field trial in the fall of 2016. The technology that makes possible the near ...

  • Omnidirectional underwater surveying and telepresence 

    Estrela Gracias, Nuno Ricardo; Garcia Campos, Rafael; Campos Dausà, Ricard; Prados Gutiérrez, Ricard; Bosch Alay, Josep; Elibol, Armagan; Nicosevici, Tudor; Neumann, Laszlo; Quintana Plana, Josep (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Exploratory dives are traditionally the first step for marine scientists to acquire information on a previously unknown area of scientific interest. Manned submersibles have been the platform of choice for such exploration, ...

  • European Multidisciplinary and Water-Column Observatory - European Research Infrastructure Consortium (EMSO ERIC): challenges and opportunities for strategic European marine sciences 

    Faviali, Paolo; Dañobeitia, Juan José; Beranzoli, Laura; Rolin, Jean-François; Lykousis, Vasilis; Ruhl, Henry A.; Gaughan, Paul; Piera Fernández, Jaume; Huber, Robert; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del; Llinás, Octavio; Miranda, Jorge M.A. de; Terrinha, Pedro; Radulescu, Vlad; O'Neill, Nick (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    EMSO (European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-column Observatory, www.emso-eu.org) is a large‐scale European Research Infrastructure I. It is a distributed infrastructure of strategically placed, deep‐sea seafloor ...

  • European Polar research : status and challenges of European Polar fleet for enhancing strategic collaboration 

    Dañobeitia, Juan José; Biebow, Nicole; Niewejaar, Per; Ojeda Cárdenes, Miguel Ángel; Willmott, Veronica; Dahlback, Bjorn; Frenot, Yves; Mazauric, Valerie; Rogan-Finnemore, Michelle; Thomsen, Helge A.; Vieira, Gonçalo (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Polar Regions are the most vulnerable world areas to any climate change, and therefore can be considered drivers of global climate change, so small and systematic changes in the Polar Regions affect critically the global ...

  • Data acquisition system development for EGIM on EMSODEV EU Project 

    García Sánchez, Óscar; Dañobeitia, Juan José; Sorribas Cervantes, Jordi; Casas Muñoz, Raquel; Piera Fernández, Jaume; Bartolomé de la Peña, Rafael; Bardají Benach, Raúl; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del; Cadena Muñoz, Francisco Javier; Toma, Daniel; Bghiel, Ikram; Martínez Padró, Enoc; Nogueras Cervera, Marc (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The EMSODEV1 (European Multidisciplinary Seafloor and water-‐ column Observatory DEVelopment) is a UE project whose general objective is to set up the full implementation and operation of the EMSO distributed Research ...

  • Range-only benthic rover localization off the central California coast 

    Masmitjà Rusiñol, Ivan; Gomáriz Castro, Spartacus; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del; Kieft, Brian; O'Reilly, Tom (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    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 ...

  • Data comparison between three acoustic doppler current profilers deployed in OBSEA platform in North-Western Mediterranean 

    Carandell Widmer, Matias; Nogueras Cervera, Marc (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Three different Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) have been deployed in OBSEA platform, a 20 meters depth underwater observatory cabled with a 4 km mixt cable to Vilanova i la Geltru’s coast. Two months of ...

  • High frequency pCO2 monitoring in the Mediterranean coastal waters 

    Báez Hernández, Maite; González Dávila, Melchor; Santana Casiano, J. Magdalena; Nogueras Cervera, Marc; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Monitoring the Air-Sea pCO2 variability in the coastal areas is a priority due to the effect of the biological and biogeochemistry process on this process. The Northwestern Mediterranean Sea is an oligotrophic area in a ...

  • Noise and biological sounds: Artic soundscapes during the 2013 and 2014 seasons 

    Van der Schaar, Mike Connor Roger Malcolm; Johansen Haugerud, Anja; Weissenberger, Jürgen; André, Michel (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Statoil deployed three acoustic recorders from fall 2013 to fall 2014 in the Arctic region as part of a broad scientific campaign. One recorder was installed in the Barents Sea southeast of Spitsbergen. Two other recorders ...

  • SWE bridge: software interface for plug & work instrument integration into marine observation platforms 

    Martínez Padró, Enoc; Toma, Daniel; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del; García Sánchez, Óscar; Bghiel, Ikram (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The integration of sensor systems into marine observation platforms such as gliders, cabled observatories and smart buoys requires a great deal of effort due to the diversity of architectures present in the marine ...

  • Firsts underwater potentiostat sea-tests in the OBSEA 

    Masmitjà Rusiñol, Ivan; Damborenea, Juan José de; Conde del Campo, Ana; Daponte, Pasquale; Rapuano, Sergio; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Corrosion due to seawater studies are urgently required for a safe technology development. Some studies demonstrated that the corrosion rates for most alloys could be four times less than surface corrosion rates. A device ...

  • A big data architecture designed for ocean observation data management 

    Andriani, Pasquale; Nigrelli, Massimiliano; Pellegrino, Dario; Lombardo, Leandro; Badiali, Lucio (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access

  • The LSTS open-source communication and autonomy software: enabling networked vehicle systems to find track, and sample dynamic features of the ocean 

    Borges de Sousa, J.; Pereira, João; Ferreira, Antonio Sergio; Ribeiro, Manuel; Pinto, J.; Dias, Paulo; Costa, Maria; Rajan, Kanna (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access

  • Galway Bay shallow-water observatory: installation, commissioning and research opportunities 

    O'Conchubhair, Diarmuid Gearóid; O'Rourke, Eleanor (MARTECH 2016, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The Galway Bay shallow-water observatory was installed in August 2015 and officially launched in July 2016. The observatory is located within the Galway Bay Marine and Renewable Energy Test Site at a depth of around 23m. ...

  • Architecting the cyberinfrastructure for National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) 

    Rodero Castro, Iván; Parashar, Manish (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is a networked ocean research observatory with arrays of instrumented water column moorings and buoys, profilers, gliders and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) within ...

  • Obstacle detection algorithm of low computational cost for Guanay II AUV 

    Galarza Bogotá, Cesar Mauricio; Prat Tasias, Jordi; Gomáriz Castro, Spartacus (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    Obstacle detection is one of the most important stages in the obstacle avoidance system. This work is focused to explain the operation of a designed and implemented for the overall detection of objects with low computational ...

  • The EGIM, modular though generic addresses the requirements of the EMSO platforms 

    Lantéri, Nadine; Legrand, Julien; Gates, Andrew; Pagonis, Paris; Río Fernandez, Joaquín del; Lagadec, Jean Romain; Ruhl, Henry A.; Rolin, Jean-François (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access

  • Electronic system for drift clock calculation and synchronization for seafloor observatory 

    Apponi, Umberto; Embriaco, Davide; Marinaro, Giuditta; Romano, Vincenzo (SARTI, 2016)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    The paper describes a new electronic device that allows an easily measurement of the drift between a reference time source (usually GPS) and an atomic rubidium clock which is normally used in seafloor observatories. The ...