Fine-Scale Seafloor Survey in Rugged Deep-Ocean Terrain with an Autonomous Robot
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The rugged mountainous regions of the deep seafloor hold both great scientific interest as well a host of difficult challenges for autonomous robots. Exploiting its abilities for precise navigation, trackline following, and bottom-following in rough terrain, the Autonomous Benthic Explorer (ABE) collected fine-scale bathymetry, magnetics, temperature, optical backscatter, and conductivity over a rugged, neovolcanic and active tectonic zone of the southern East Pacific Rise (18°S). These data sets were combined to produce a variety of maps showing details of the terrain as well as hydrother-mal venting.
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تاریخ انتشار 2000