Technology and applications of autonomous underwater vehicles /
The oceans are a hostile environment, and gathering information on deep-sea life and the seabed is incredibly difficult. Autonomous underwater vehicles are robot submarines that are revolutionizing the way in which researchers and industry obtain data. Advances in technology have resulted in capable...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Taylor & Francis,
2003.
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| Series: | Ocean science and technology ;
v. 2. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The oceans are a hostile environment, and gathering information on deep-sea life and the seabed is incredibly difficult. Autonomous underwater vehicles are robot submarines that are revolutionizing the way in which researchers and industry obtain data. Advances in technology have resulted in capable vehicles that have made new discoveries on how the oceans work, and have dramatically reduced the cost to industry of surveying the seabed. Technology and Applications of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles describes the technologies that have made this happen, as well as a host of applications from fish abundance studies to finding diamonds beneath the sea. There is tremendous scope for further innovation beyond the topics discussed, and this book will help the next generation of engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government laboratories, to deliver those advances. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-329) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0415301548 9780415301541 0585452687 9780585452685 9780203522301 0203522303 1280406860 9781280406867 9781134417735 113441773X 9781134417681 1134417683 9781134417728 1134417721 |