Taking advantage of state of the art underwater vehicles and current networking capabilities, the visionary double objective of this work is to “open to people connected to the Internet, an access to ocean depths anytime, anywhere.” Today, these people can just perceive the changing surface of the sea from the shores, but ignore almost everything on what is hidden. If they could explore seabed ...

The physical habitat used during spawning may potentially be an important factor affecting reproductive output of broadcast spawning marine fishes, particularly for species with complex, substrate-oriented mating systems and behaviors, such as Atlantic cod Gadus morhua. We characterized the habitat use and behavior of spawning Atlantic cod at two locations off the coast of southwestern Iceland ...

In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a control system for automatic vision-based station keeping with an underwater ROV, relative to some visual landmark. First, a region-based tracking system is described that tracks naturally textured landmarks in the image plane, based upon full planar-projective motion models. The implementation of the algorithm is such that it allows ...

Our perception of deep-sea communities has evolved as various sampling approaches have captured different components habitats. We sampled midwater zooplankton assemblages in Monterey Bay, California to quantify community composition (abundance and biomass) biodiversity (at the Order level) across three depth ranges, effects methodology on parameters. collected using two types opening-closing tr...

Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) are increasingly being used by civilian and defence operators for ever more complex and dangerous missions. This is due to the underlying characteristics of safety and cost effectiveness when compared to manned vehicles. UUVs require no human operator be subject to the conditions and dangers inherent in the underwater environment that the vehicle is exposed t...