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iPhone goes to out sea: Testing the iPhone GPS receiver for locating and tracking autonomous underwater vehicles |
One of the key components of the Autonomous Underwater Explorers (AUEs) currently under development in our lab is a GPS receiver for locating, tracking, and recovering the AUEs after a deployment. Because the AUEs will be floating right at the surface of the water, there are problems acquiring... |
Autonomous Underwater Explorer:
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Currently there are very few ways of obtaining both sufficient spatial and sufficient temporal resolution when collecting ocean data. Of these methods, none are cost effective. Moorings can give high temporal resolution, but do not give good spatial resolution. Satellite analysis... |
FIDO-PHI 2006
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The goal of our most recent cruise was to deploy our FIDO vehicle in various configurations to observe particle size spectra and also time varying scatter of light in the ocean. Leaving from San Diego we over-nighted off Catalina (up and back) on the way to the Channel Islands. The cruise... |
