OCEANS 2015 - Genova

Genova, Italy 18-21 May 2015

Pages 1-644

IEEE Catalog Number: ISBN:

1/4

CFP15OCF-POD 978-1-4799-8737-5

TABLE OF CONTENTS

AUTOMATED BUOYANCY CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A REMOTELY OPERATED UNDERWATER CRAWLER .............................................................................................................................................. 1 Wood, S. L. ; Hendricks, A. ; Corbet, M.

APPLICATION AND EFFECTIVENESS OF A PORTABLE HYDRODYNAMIC TEST FLUME.......................... 11 Wood, S. L. ; Canedo, D. ; Le Merdy, T. B.

APPLICATION OF GAMMA-FLUCTUATING-INTENSITY SIGNAL MODEL TO ACTIVE SONAR ................................................................................................................................................................................. 21 Abraham, D. A.

XBEE POSITIONING SYSTEM WITH EMBEDDED HAPTIC FEEDBACK FOR DANGEROUS OFFSHORE OPERATIONS: A PRELIMINARY STUDY............................................................................................. 29 Sanfilippo, F. ; Pettersen, K. Y.

A DATA ASSIMILATION SCHEME TO IMPROVE THE WAVE PREDICTIONS IN THE BLACK SEA ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 35 Butunoiu, D. ; Rusu, E.

COMMUNICATIONS RELAY AND AUTONOMOUS TRACKING APPLICATIONS FOR WAVE GLIDER ............................................................................................................................................................................... 41 O'Reilly, T. C. ; Kieft, B. ; Chaffey, M.

POLARIMETRIC SAR IMAGE SEGMENTATION BASED ON SPATIALLY CONSTRAINED KERNEL FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING ................................................................................................................. 47 Jianchao Fan ; Jun Wang

PLOCAN. AN OFFSHORE TEST SITE FOR OCEAN ENERGY CONVERTERS .................................................... 51 Gonzalez, J. ; Monagas, V. ; Remirez, X. ; Luque, A. ; Hernandez, J. ; Llinas, O.

BROADBAND PARTICLE FILTERING IN A NOISY LITTORAL OCEAN ............................................................. 55 Candy, J. V.

SEQUENTIAL DETECTION OF FISSION PROCESSES FOR HARBOR DEFENSE .............................................. 63 Candy, J. V. ; Walston, S. E. ; Chambers, D. H.

ASSESSMENT OF THE WIND ENERGY POTENTIAL IN THE COASTAL ENVIRONMENT OF TWO ENCLOSED SEAS.................................................................................................................................................... 73 Raileanu, A. ; Onea, F. ; Rusu, E.

COASTAL IMPACT OF A HYBRID MARINE FARM OPERATING CLOSE TO THE SARDINIA ISLAND ................................................................................................................................................................................ 81 Onea, F. ; Rusu, L.

THE SINGAPORE AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE CHALLENGE (SAUVC): AN EFFORT TO ENGAGE AND EXPOSE YOUNG ENGINEERS TO CHALLENGES OF UNDERWATER ROBOTICS ............................................................................................................................................ 88 Pallayil, V. ; Chitre, M. ; Kalyan, B. ; Suman, S. ; Teong Beng Koay ; Chin Swee Chia ; Teo Hoe Eng Ken ; Cheah Siang Lim ; Taher, T.

SEAFLOOR IMAGE COMPRESSION USING HYBRID WAVELETS AND DIRECTIONAL FILTER BANKS.................................................................................................................................................................. 97 Zhang, Y. ; Li, Q.-Z. ; Negahdaripour, S.

HF RADAR OPTIMISED FOR TSUNAMI MONITORING ....................................................................................... 106 Heron, M. ; Dzvonkovskaya, A. ; Helzel, T.

STEREO SLAM FOR ROBUST DENSE 3D RECONSTRUCTION OF UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTS ............................................................................................................................................................ 111 Bonin-Font, F. ; Cosic, A. ; Negre, P. L. ; Solbach, M. ; Oliver, G.

A CLOSED-CYCLE HYDROGEN COMBUSTION SYSTEM WITH STIRLING ENGINE FOR AUV PROPULSION ......................................................................................................................................................... 117 Hyunjong Paik

THE MEUST DEEP SEA CABLED OBSERVATORY ................................................................................................ 122 Vallee, C. ; Ageron, M. ; Bertin, V. ; Beurthey, S. ; Billault, M. ; Brunner, J. ; Caillat, L. ; Cosquer, A. ; Coyle, P. ; Destelle, J. J. ; Dornic, D. ; Gallo, F. ; Henry, S. ; Keller, P. ; Lamare, P. ; Laurence, J. ; Leon, F. ; Lerouvillois, C. ; Royon, J. ; Solazzo, M. ; Tezier, D. ; Theraube, S. ; Bernardet, K. ; Gojak, C. ; Hafidi, Z. ; Le Moal, F. ; Lenault, Y. ; Mahiouz, K. ; Lefevre, D. ; Tamburini, C.

NEW EUROPEAN UNDERWATER NOISE MEASUREMENT STANDARD DEVELOPED IN THE AQUO PROJECT.............................................................................................................................................................. 128 Moreno Rodriguez, A. ; Salinas Mullor, R. ; Beltran Palomo, P. ; Baudin, E. ; Lamaison, V.

A NOVEL ACOUSTIC TEST BENCH FOR EVALUATING UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC MODEMS BY NUMERICAL REAL-TIME SIMULATION OF THE ACOUSTIC CHANNEL ............................. 134 Arzelies, P. ; Drogou, M. ; Opderbecke, J. ; Noel, C. ; Beauchene, S. ; Martin, C. ; Lachaud, E. ; Nasr, A.

A PRACTICAL PATH PLANNING AND NAVIGATION ALGORITHM FOR AN UNMANNED SURFACE VEHICLE USING THE FAST MARCHING ALGORITHM................................................................... 138 Yuanchang Liu ; Rui Song ; Bucknall, R.

INNOVATIVE POWER SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE ......................................... 145 Borgogna, G. ; Lamberti, T. ; Massardo, A. F.

NEW COST-EFFECTIVE, INTEROPERABLE SENSORS TESTED ON EXISTING OCEAN OBSERVING PLATFORMS IN APPLICATION OF EUROPEAN DIRECTIVES: THE COMMON SENSE EUROPEAN PROJECT...................................................................................................................................... 153 Ribotti, A. ; Magni, P. ; Schroeder, K. ; McCaul, M. ; Diamond, D. ; Mireno, B. ; Barton, J.

ISSUES AFFECTING CURRENT METER DESIGN................................................................................................... 162 Williams, A. J.

VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING SYSTEM FOR MARITIME CRANE DESIGN AND OPERATION BASED ON FUNCTIONAL MOCK-UP INTERFACE................................................................................................. 168 Yingguang Chu ; Hatledal, L. I. ; Sanfilippo, F. ; Asoy, V. ; Houxiang Zhang ; Schaathun, H. G.

WAVE CLIMATE OF THE BLACK SEA: AN ANALYSIS OF THE OBSERVED TRENDS................................. 172 Boris, D. ; Ruben, K.

A SIMPLE METHOD FOR ESTIMATING WAVE REFRACTION ALONG WEAKLY CURVILINEAR COASTS................................................................................................................................................ 177 Lopez-Ruiz, A. ; Ortega-Sanchez, M. ; Losada, M.

CAPACITY-ACHIEVING INPUT FOR PARAMETRIC UNDERWATER COMMUNICATIONS ....................... 182 Wiedmann, K. ; Weber, T.

LONG AND SHORT-TERM BEAM SPREAD BY TURBULENCE AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE BEAM GEOMETRY......................................................................................................................................................... 188 Charnotskii, M.

SPECTRAL STRUCTURE OF BREAKING WAVES AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE TRANSPORT OF SEDIMENTS IN COASTAL ZONE ................................................................................................ 194 Kuznetsov, S. ; Saprykina, Y. ; Shtremel, M. ; Kuznetsova, O.

NONLINEAR TRANSFORMATION OF WAVES ABOVE SUBMERGED STRUCTURES: APPLICATION TO COASTAL PROTECTION........................................................................................................... 200 Saprykina, Y. ; Kuznetsov, S. ; Korzinin, D.

A GROUND-BASED VISION SYSTEM FOR UAV TRACKING ............................................................................... 204 Pessanha Santos, N. ; Lobo, V. ; Bernardino, A.

LAGRANGIAN COHERENT STRUCTURES DEDUCED FROM HF RADAR MEASUREMENTS .................... 213 Enrile, F. ; Besio, G. ; Magaldi, M. G. ; Mantovani, C. ; Cosoli, S. ; Gerin, R. ; Poulain, P. M.

SHAPE DEPENDENT WAVE FORCE AND BENDING MOMENT OF OFFSHORE WIND SUBSTRUCTURE SYSTEM............................................................................................................................................ 218 Youn-Ju Jeong ; Young-Jun You ; Min-Su Park ; Du-Ho Lee

IMPROVING THE QUALITY CONTROL AND ACCURACY OF HF RADAR CURRENTS ............................... 222 Wyatt, L. R.

SCHEDULING ALGORITHM WITH TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL FOR RANDOM UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC NETWORKS.................................................................................................................. 226 Anjangi, P. ; Chitre, M.

A LOW-COST PIPELINE FOR SEMI-REAL TIME UNDERWATER SITE STUDY ............................................. 234 Scaradozzi, D. ; Sorbi, L. ; Gambogi, P.

ADAPTIVE SAMPLING AND COLLECTIVE BEHAVIOUR IN A SMALL TEAM OF AUVS FOR A SOURCE LOCALIZATION PROBLEM ................................................................................................................... 239 Shaukat, M. ; Chitre, M.

COLOUR CORRECTION OF UNDERWATER IMAGES.......................................................................................... 245 Hoth, J. ; Kowalczyk, W.

OFFSHORE WIND POWER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA USING BLENDED SEA WINDS ...................... 250 Soukissian, T. ; Axaopoulos, P. ; Karathanasi, F.

MEASUREMENTS OF SIGNAL COHERENCE FOR HIGH AND LOW DUTY CYCLE SONARS IN A SHALLOW WATER CHANNEL........................................................................................................................... 258 Hines, P. C. ; Hicks, K. ; Murphy, S. M. ; Taylor, N.

A RELOCATABLE ENKF OCEAN DATA ASSIMILATION TOOL FOR HETEROGENEOUS OBSERVATIONAL NETWORKS .................................................................................................................................. 263 Falchetti, S. ; Alvarez, A. ; Onken, R.

IMPROVING SEASONDE RADIAL VELOCITY ACCURACY AND VARIANCE USING RADIAL METRICS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 269 De Paolo, T. ; Terrill, E. ; Kirincich, A.

CONSTRAINT-INDUCED FORMATION SWITCHING FOR ADAPTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLING........................................................................................................................................................................ 278 Kemna, S. ; Caron, D. A. ; Sukhatme, G. S.

A SHALLOW WATER AUV FOR BENTHIC AND WATER COLUMN OBSERVATIONS.................................. 285 Marouchos, A. ; Muir, B. ; Babcock, R. ; Dunbabin, M.

DYNAMICS AND ADAPTIVE FUZZY TURNING CONTROL OF AN UNDERWATER GLIDER ..................... 292 Junliang Cao ; Junjun Cao ; Baoheng Yao ; Lian Lian

LOW-COMPLEXITY SUBBAND EQUALIZATION OF MOBILE UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC CHANNELS ....................................................................................................................................................................... 299 Pelekanakis, K. ; Chitre, M.

THREE DIMENSIONAL MODEL, HYDRODYNAMICS ANALYSIS AND MOTION SIMULATION OF AN UNDERWATER GLIDER ....................................................................................................... 307 Junjun Cao ; Junliang Cao ; Baoheng Yao ; Lian Lian

UNDERWATER RUNNING ON UNEVEN TERRAIN ................................................................................................ 315 Calisti, M. ; Laschi, C.

PIECEWISE PLANAR UNDERWATER MOSAICING .............................................................................................. 320 Bellavia, F. ; Fanfani, M. ; Pazzaglia, F. ; Colombo, C. ; Costanzi, R. ; Monni, N. ; Ridolfi, A. ; Allotta, B.

A COMBINED ACOUSTIC AND OPTICAL INSTRUMENT FOR INDUSTRY MANAGED FISHERIES STUDIES ...................................................................................................................................................... 327 Underwood, M. ; Sherlock, M. ; Marouchos, A. ; Cordell, J. ; Kloser, R. ; Ryan, T.

THRUST DEPLETION AT HIGH PULSATION FREQUENCIES IN UNDERACTUATED, SOFTBODIED, PULSED-JET VEHICLES.............................................................................................................................. 332 Giorgio-Serchi, F. ; Renda, F. ; Calisti, M. ; Laschi, C.

APPLICATION OF BLUE LED IRRADIATION TO ANTIFOULING OF A SHIP'S BOTTOM ........................... 338 Mimura, H. ; Hirono, K. ; Yano, Y. ; Endo, N.

A PRELIMINARY WAVE ENERGY EXPLOITATION ASSESSMENT IN THE NORTHERN THYRRENIAN SEA ......................................................................................................................................................... 342 De Santis, G. ; Besio, G. ; Mentaschi, L. ; Mazzino, A.

TIME-VARIANT ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION MODELING FOR HIGH-SPEED COHERENT MIMO TRANSMISSION ................................................................................................................................................. 348 Bousquet, J.-F. ; McIntyre, G. ; Quirion, J.

OFF-SHORE WAVE ENERGY HARVESTING: A WEC-MICROTURBINE SYSTEM: HARVESTING AND STORING ENERGY FOR OFF-SHORE APPLICATIONS.................................................... 356 Di Fresco, L. ; Traverso, A. ; Barberis, S. ; Guglielmino, E. ; Garrone, M.

COMPARISON OF TWO METEOROLOGICAL MODELS USING SELF-ORGANIZING MAPS...................... 362 Kalinic, H. ; Matic, F. ; Mihanovic, H. ; Vilibic, I. ; Zagar, N. ; Jasenko, B. ; Tudor, M.

OVERVIEW OF THE FP7 PROJECT “CADDY — COGNITIVE AUTONOMOUS DIVING BUDDY”............................................................................................................................................................................. 368 Miskovic, N. ; Bibuli, M. ; Birk, A. ; Caccia, M. ; Egi, M. ; Grammer, K. ; Marroni, A. ; Neasham, J. ; Pascoal, A. ; Vasilijevic, A. ; Vukic, Z.

SMART PORT: EXPLOITING RENEWABLE ENERGY AND STORAGE POTENTIAL OF MOORED BOATS ............................................................................................................................................................ 373 Lamberti, T. ; Sorce, A. ; Di Fresco, L. ; Barberis, S.

ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SAS IMAGE RESOLUTION AND TARGET-DETECTION PERFORMANCE.............................................................................................................................................................. 376 Williams, D. P. ; Hunter, A. J.

USING SEADATANET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO PRESERVE THE XBT DATA-SET OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA ....................................................................................................................................... 381 Pecci, L. ; Ciuffardi, T. ; Reseghetti, F. ; Fichaut, M. ; Picco, P. ; Schaap, D.

YAW OPERATION OF A SHROUDED HORIZONTAL AXIS HYDROKINETIC TURBINE .............................. 386 Shahsavarifard, M. ; Bibeau, E. L.

ON THE BANDWIDTH OF 6-AXIS FORCE/TORQUE SENSORS FOR UNDERWATER APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................... 390 Palli, G. ; Moriello, L. ; Melchiorri, C.

MITIGATION MEASURES FOR CONTROLLING THE SHIP UNDERWATER RADIATED NOISE, IN THE SCOPE OF AQUO PROJECT ............................................................................................................ 396 Audoly, C. ; Rousset, C. ; Rizzuto, E. ; Salinas Mullor, R. ; Hallander, J. ; Baudin, E.

HIGH RESOLUTION STEREO IMAGING OF SEA WAVES FOR VALIDATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF WAVE MODELLING................................................................................................................. 402 Corgnati, L. ; Mazzei, L. ; Marini, S. ; Isoppo, B. ; Ottaviano, E. ; Besio, G. ; Magaldi, M. G.

VARIABILITY OF UNDERWATER RADIATED SHIP NOISE MEASURED USING TWO HYDROPHONE ARRAYS............................................................................................................................................... 410 Humphrey, V. ; Brooker, A. ; Dambra, R. ; Firenze, E.

HOW SMARTPHONE INDUSTRY MADE UCOMMS EASIER: MOORE'S LAW GOES UNDERWATER................................................................................................................................................................ 420 Dol, H. ; Colin, M. ; Van Walree, P. ; Otnes, R.

NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF TIDAL CURRENT ENERGY IN YANGTZE ESTUARYHANGZHOU BAY, CHINA ............................................................................................................................................. 425 Dan Li ; Yanming Yao ; Qin Chen ; Zhouteng Ye

ACTIVE SONAR SYSTEMS IN THE PRESENCE OF STRONG DIRECT BLAST ................................................ 431 Gianelli, C. ; Luzhou Xu ; Jian Li

RESEARCH ON THE HYDRODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTIC OF A VERTICAL AXIS PROPELLER..................................................................................................................................................................... 441 Xinxing Gu ; Dahai Zhang ; Jianxing Leng ; Ying Chen ; Jialin Huang ; Lixin Chen ; Dan Li

WATER JETTING ARM OPTIMAL DESIGN CONSIDERATION FOR A ROV TRENCHER ............................ 454 Li, J. H. ; Kim, J. T. ; Lee, M. J. ; Jee, S. C. ; Kang, H. J. ; Kim, M. K. ; Kwak, H. W. ; Kim, S. B. ; Oh, T. W.

UNDERWATER MAGNETOMETRIC DETECTION OF QUASI-PUNCTIFORM KINEMATIC SOURCES: FROM THE METROLOGY OF THE FIELD TO THE METROLOGY OF THE SINGULARITY ................................................................................................................................................................. 459 Nasta, Stefano ; Faggioni, Osvaldo ; Nasta, Stefano ; Faggioni, Osvaldo ; Soldani, Maurizio

BALANCE PARAMETERS CALCULATION METHOD OF UNDERWATER GLIDER BASED ON BP NEURAL NETWORK ................................................................................................................................................ 463 Qian-Li Jiang ; Lei-Han ; Xiang-Dong Wang ; Hua-Yang ; Da-Lei Song

MODELING PROVENANCE IN MARINE SURVEY PROJECT .............................................................................. 466 Mingtao Liu ; Jianliang Xu ; Xiaohong Wang ; Hongtao Liang ; Shijuan Yan

VISUAL POSE ESTIMATION FOR AUTONOMOUS INSPECTION OF FISH PENS ........................................... 471 Duda, A. ; Schwendner, J. ; Stahl, A. ; Rundtop, P.

GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE: ANALYZING ANTHROPOGENIC WARMING AND CAUSALITY...................................................................................................................................................................... 477 Stips, A. K. ; Macias, D. ; Coughlan, C. ; Garcia-Gorriz, E.

MONITORING LONG TERM OCEAN NOISE IN EUROPEAN WATERS ............................................................. 481 Folegot, T. ; Clorennec, D. ; Brunet, P. ; Six, L. ; Chavanne, R. ; Van Der Schaar, M. ; Andre, M.

EVALUATING THIRD GENERATION WAVE SPECTRAL MODELS PERFORMANCES IN COASTAL AREAS. AN APPLICATION TO EASTERN LIGURIA .......................................................................... 488 Sartini, L. ; Mentaschi, L. ; Besio, G.

THE DESIGN OF MEASUREMENT-BASED UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC CHANNEL SIMULATORS USING THE INLSA ALGORITHM .................................................................................................... 498 Naderi, M. ; Patzold, M. ; Zajic, A. G.

DESIGN OF A MODULAR PROPULSION SYSTEM FOR MARTA AUV............................................................... 504 Allotta, B. ; Costanzi, R. ; Gelli, J. ; Pugi, L. ; Ridolfi, A.

DESIGN OF A MODULAR AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS................................................................................................................... 511 Allotta, B. ; Baines, S. ; Bartolini, F. ; Bellavia, F. ; Colombo, C. ; Conti, R. ; Costanzi, R. ; Dede, C. ; Fanfani, M. ; Gelli, J. ; Tolasa Gundogdu, H. ; Monni, N. ; Moroni, D. ; Natalini, M. ; Antonietta Pascali, M. ; Pazzaglia, F. ; Pugi, L. ; Ridolfi, A. ; Reggiannini, M. ; Roig, D. ; Salvetti, O. ; Tekdemir, E. I.

ANALYSIS OF CAPTURE AND MULTI-PACKET RECEPTION ON THE AIS SATELLITE SYSTEM............................................................................................................................................................................. 516 Clazzer, F. ; Munari, A.

PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF UNDERWATER NETWORK PROTOCOLS WITHIN INTERNATIONAL SEA TRIAL..................................................................................................................................... 525 Goetz, M. ; Nissen, I. ; Otnes, R. ; Van Walree, P.

HYBRID ACOUSTIC/OPTIC COMMUNICATIONS IN UNDERWATER SWARMS ............................................ 532 Moriconi, C. ; Cupertino, G. ; Betti, S. ; Tabacchiera, M.

CHARACTERIZATION OF COASTAL UPWELLING EVENTS DURING THE GENERATION OF THE WATER COLUMN STRATIFICATION IN SPRING (VILANOVA I LA GELTRÚ, NW MEDITERRANEAN)........................................................................................................................................................ 541 Antonijuan, J. ; Guillen, J. ; Simarro, G. ; Nogueras-Cervera, M. ; Del Rio, J.

ADAPTIVE OBJECT TRACKING IN A SENSOR NETWORK................................................................................. 546 Lopez Rodriguez, A. ; Stojanovic, M.

SHORT-TERM FORECASTING OF ZONAL AND MERIDIONAL WAVE ENERGY FLUX IN THE BAY OF BISCAY USING RANDOM FORESTS ................................................................................................. 551 Ibarra Berastegi, G. ; Saenz, J. ; Esnaola, G. ; Ezcurra, A. ; Ulazia, A.

A TWO-LAYERED FAST MARCHING PATH PLANNING ALGORITHM FOR AN UNMANNED SURFACE VEHICLE OPERATING IN A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT ................................................................. 557 Rui Song ; Yuanchang Liu ; Wenwen Liu ; Bucknall, R.

A NEW WAY FOR UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC SIGNAL ANALYSIS: THE MORPHOLOGICAL FILTERING....................................................................................................................................................................... 565 Moreaud, U. ; Courmontagne, P. ; Chaillan, F. ; Mesquida, J.-R. ; Ouelha, S.

ACTIVE CONTOURS FOR SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR SNIPPET REGISTRATION.............................. 574 Dugelay, S. ; Fox, W.

FROM DATA TO DECISION: AN OVERVIEW OF CMRE'S INFORMATION SUPPLY CHAIN ...................... 580 Berni, A. ; Cimino, G. ; Camossi, E. ; Giannecchini, S.

TEAM-BASED WORKSHOP TO ENGAGE YOUNG STUDENTS IN ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE: BUILDING AND DRIVING A ROV (R2B2). TWO SPECIAL EDITIONS IN INDIA .......................... 585 Cuff, X. ; Villanueva, M. ; El-Fakdi, A. ; Hurtos, N. ; Muntaner, E. ; Freixenet, J. ; Massich, J. ; Quintana, J. ; Palomeras, N. ; Bosch, A. ; Renart, A.

ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERWATER LOCALIZATION USING ALL-SOURCE DATA....................................................................................................................................................... 591 Menozzi, A. ; Hansen, J. ; Peele, G. ; Snarski, S. ; Merrick, C.

ROBUST HEADING CONTROL AND ITS APPLICATION TO CISCREA UNDERWATER VEHICLE........................................................................................................................................................................... 601 Yang, R. ; Clement, B. ; Mansour, A. ; Li, H. J. ; Li, M.

SHIP EFFICIENCY FORECAST BASED ON SENSORS DATA COLLECTION: IMPROVING NUMERICAL MODELS THROUGH DATA ANALYTICS ........................................................................................ 607 Coraddu, A. ; Oneto, L. ; Baldi, F. ; Anguita, D.

COORDINATION OF UNMANNED MARINE VEHICLES FOR ASYMMETRIC THREATS PROTECTION .................................................................................................................................................................. 617 Nardi, S. ; Della Santina, C. ; Meucci, D. ; Pallottino, L.

TOWARDS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A FULLY OPERATIONAL HF COASTAL RADAR NETWORK OPERATED BY PUERTOS DEL ESTADO ............................................................................................ 624 Lorente, P. ; Soto-Navarro, J. ; Ruiz, M. I. ; Alvarez-Fanjul, E. ; Piedracoba, S. ; Montero, P.

MISSION INTEGRATED COLLISION AVOIDANCE FOR USVS USING LASER RANGE FINDER.............................................................................................................................................................................. 629 Blaich, M. ; Kohler, S. ; Schuster, M. ; Schuchhardt, T. ; Reuter, J. ; Tietz, T.

USE OF OCEAN RELATED CHALLENGES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION ................................................... 635 Kirkwood, W. J.

CODE RATE OPTIMIZATION FOR ENERGY EFFICIENT DELAY CONSTRAINED UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS .................................................................................................. 641 De Souza, F. ; Souza, R. ; Brante, G. ; Pellenz, M. ; Rosas, F. ; Chang, B.

COMPARISON OF FINITE TIME LYAPUNOV EXPONENT AND MEAN FLOW ENERGY DURING TWO CONTRASTING YEARS IN THE ADRIATIC SEA ......................................................................... 645 Hariri, S. ; Besio, G. ; Stocchino, A.

SEAPERCH: HOW A START-UP HANDS-ON ROBOTICS ACTIVITY GREW INTO A NATIONAL PROGRAM.................................................................................................................................................. 651 Nelson, Susan Giver ; Cooper, Kelly B. ; Djapic, Vladimir

PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ENERGY CAT 3EC42 HYDROKINETIC TURBINE........................................................................................................................................................................... 654 Shahsavarifard, M. ; Birjandi, A. H. ; Bibeau, E. L. ; Sinclaire, R.

LOW POWER BEAMFORMING FOR UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC SENSING USING A 5ELEMENT CIRCULAR HYDROPHONE ARRAY ...................................................................................................... 658 McIntyre, G. ; Loadman, C. ; Bousquet, J.-F. ; Blouin, S.

SUB-BAND PROCESSING OF CONTINUOUS ACTIVE SONAR SIGNALS IN SHALLOW WATER .............................................................................................................................................................................. 666 Murphy, S. M. ; Hines, P. C.

TRAJECTORY AND GUIDANCE MODE FOR AUTONOMOUSLY LANDING AN UAV ON A NAVAL PLATFORM USING A VISION APPROACH................................................................................................ 670 Morais, F. ; Ramalho, T. ; Sinogas, P. ; Monteiro Marques, M. ; Pessanha Santos, N. ; Lobo, V.

PROBABILISTIC RECONSTRUCTION OF COLOR FOR SPECIES' CLASSIFICATION UNDERWATER................................................................................................................................................................ 677 Rzhanov, Y. ; Pe'Eri, S. ; Saskov, A.

DEVELOPMENT OF A USV STATION-KEEPING CONTROLLER ....................................................................... 682 Sarda, E. I. ; Bertaska, I. R. ; Qu, A. ; Von Ellenrieder, K. D.

THE ENIGMATIC JURIDICAL REGIME OF UNMANNED MARITIME SYSTEMS........................................... 692 Giunta, L.

UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS IN MARITIME OPERATIONS: CHALLENGES ADDRESSED IN THE SCOPE OF THE SEAGULL PROJECT ................................................................................. 701 Monteiro Marques, M. ; Dias, P. ; Pessanha Santos, N. ; Lobo, V. ; Batista, R. ; Salgueiro, D. ; Aguiar, A. ; Costa, M. ; Estrela Da Silva, J. ; Ferreira, A. S. ; Sousa, J. ; De Fatima Nunes, M. ; Pereira, E. ; Morgado, J. ; Ribeiro, R. ; Marques, J. S. ; Bernardino, A. ; Grine, M. ; Taiana, M.

USING UNDERWATER AMBIENT SOUND TO LOCALIZE SWARMS OF UNDERWATER VEHICLES ........................................................................................................................................................................ 707 Jaffe, J. S. ; Roberts, P. L. D. ; Roux, P.

PRIOR PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR ISING-MRF-BASED SONAR IMAGE SEGMENTATION BY LOCAL CENTER-ENCODING .............................................................................................. 711 Sanming Song ; Bailu Si ; Xisheng Feng ; Herrmann, J. M.

DESIGN AND AUTOMATION OF AN OCEAN-GOING AUTONOMOUSLY ACTING USV .............................. 716 Rentzow, E. ; Dewitz, D. ; Kurowski, M. ; Lampe, B. P. ; Ritz, S. ; Kutz, R. ; Golz, M. ; Boeck, F.

HYDRODYNAMICS OF WAVE FORCES ON COASTAL-BRIDGE DECKS: CALCULATIONS BY EULER'S EQUATIONS VERSUS NONLINEAR SHALLOW-WATER WAVE EQUATIONS........................ 722 Ertekin, R. C. ; Hayatdavoodi, M.

OS-IS A NEW METHOD FOR THE SEA WAVES MONITORING .......................................................................... 731 Iafolla, L. ; Fiorenza, E. ; Iafolla, V. A. ; Montani, L. ; Carmisciano, C. ; Burlando, M. ; De Gaetano, P. ; Solari, G.

STRUCTURED LIGHT AND STEREO VISION FOR UNDERWATER 3D RECONSTRUCTION ...................... 737 Massot-Campos, M. ; Oliver-Codina, G. ; Kemal, H. ; Petillot, Y. ; Bonin-Font, F.

FAULT TOLERANT CONTROLLER DESIGN OF SERVO-VALVE CONTROLLED HYDRAULIC PROPULSION SYSTEMS ...................................................................................................................... 743 Jee, S. C. ; Li, J. H. ; Kim, J.-T. ; Lee, M. J. ; Kang, H. J.

WINGSAIL PROJECTS FOR AEROSPACE ENGINEERING CAPSTONE DESIGN............................................ 748 Anderson, M. R. ; Terrill, E. J.

IN SITU DETECTION OF CO2/CH4 DISSOLVED IN VENT-ASSOCIATED SEAWATER AT THE CLAM AND IHEYA NORTH HYDROTHERMAL VENTS AREA, OKINAWA TROUGH................................... 753 Qiannan Hu ; Xin Zhang ; Bing Wang ; Chuanbo Wang ; Zhendong Luan ; Changan Chen ; Jun Yan

MULTI-TARGET LOCALIZATION OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC SOURCES BASED ON PROBABILISTIC ESTIMATION OF DIRECTION ANGLE...................................................................................... 759 Jinwoo Choi ; Hyun-Taek Choi

WIND FEED-FORWARD CONTROL OF A USV........................................................................................................ 765 Huajin Qu ; Sarda, E. I. ; Bertaska, I. R. ; Von Ellenrieder, K. D.

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF AIRFLOW OVER HELICOPTER PLATFORM OF A POLAR ICEBREAKER ................................................................................................................................................... 775 Rahimpour, M. ; Oshkai, P.

HEADING-CONTROL TESTS OF AN UNDERWATER GLIDER FOR VIRTUAL MOORING .......................... 783 Asakawa, K. ; Hyakudome, T. ; Ishihara, Y. ; Nakamura, M.

OBSERVATION AND REGIONAL MODEL BASED GULF STREAM MARINE HYDROKINETIC ENERGY RESOURCE ESTIMATES FOR NORTH CAROLINA.............................................................................. 787 Muglia, M. ; Ruoying He ; Lowcher, C. ; Bane, J. ; Taylor, P. ; Edge, B.

MEASURING AND PROCESSING OF OCEAN TURBULENCE FROM A MOORED INSTRUMENT .................................................................................................................................................................. 794 Yuanyuan Wang ; Hua Yang ; Xiuyan Liu ; Dalei Song

DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC BACKSCATTER AND DOPPLER INSTRUMENTS FROM A SMALL AND VERSATILE MULTI-FREQUENCY SONAR BOARD WITH SOFTWARE DEFINED PROCESSING............................................................................................................. 799 Jaffre, F. M. ; Traykovski, P. ; Moulton, M. ; Lawson, G. L. ; Austin, T. C.

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHM FOR COMBINATION METHOD OF CONVENTIONAL AND COHERENT DOPPLER SONAR.................................................................................................................................... 805 Peng Liu ; Kouguchi, N.

ADAPTIVE SAMPLING USING FLEETS OF UNDERWATER GLIDERS IN THE PRESENCE OF FIXED BUOYS USING A CONSTRAINED CLUSTERING ALGORITHM ............................................................. 811 Cococcioni, M. ; Lazzerini, B. ; Lermusiaux, P. F. J.

MULTIOBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATION OF QUADRATIC TAKAGI-SUGENO FUZZY RULES FOR REMOTE BATHYMETRY ESTIMATION ............................................................................. 817 Cococcioni, M. ; Lazzerini, B.

UNDERWATER VISUAL SLAM WITH LOOP-CLOSURE USING IMAGE-TO-IMAGE LINK RECOVERY ...................................................................................................................................................................... 823 Seonghun Hong ; Taeyun Kim ; Jinwhan Kim

SUSTAINABLE DEPLOYMENT OF MARINE CURRENT ENERGY IN INDONESIA......................................... 829 Ramachandran, R. ; Takagi, K.

UNDERWATER IMAGE SEGMENTATION VIA DARK CHANNEL PRIOR AND MULTISCALE HIERARCHICAL DECOMPOSITION.......................................................................................................................... 834 Haiyong Zheng ; Xue Sun ; Bing Zheng ; Rui Nian ; Yangfan Wang

RESEARCH AND TESTS ON HYDRODYNAMIC PERFORMANCE OF A SEABED SEATED HORIZONTAL AXIS TIDAL TURBINE....................................................................................................................... 838 Shujie Wang ; Yijun Zhang ; Peng Yuan ; Junzhe Tan

A POTENTIAL METHOD FOR UNDERWATER CHARGING ................................................................................ 845 Fan, F.

A METHOD TO PREDICT UNDERWATER NOISE FROM CAVITATING PROPELLERS ............................... 850 Firenze, E. ; Valdenazzi, F.

MOTION CONTROL OF UNDERWATER ROBOTIC ARM USING CALIBRATION-FREE VISUAL SERVOING SYSTEM....................................................................................................................................... 856 Kawamura, A. ; Kubo, M. ; Yokoi, K. ; Sakagami, N. ; Kawamura, S.

ACOUSTIC EMISSION HEALTH MONITORING OF MARINE RENEWABLES: ILLUSTRATION WITH A WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER IN FALMOUTH BAY (UK)..................................... 861 Walsh, J. ; Bashir, I. ; Thies, P. R. ; Johanning, L. ; Blondel, P.

UNDERWATER WIRELESS OPTICAL COMMUNICATION USING A DIRECTLY MODULATED SEMICONDUCTOR LASER................................................................................................................ 868 Aobo Lin ; Weichao Lu ; Jing Xu ; Hong Song ; Fengzhong Qu ; Jun Han ; Xinxing Gu ; Jianxing Leng

IN-SITU ACOUSTIC RECEIVED LEVEL MEASUREMENTS WITH GLIDER BASED REACTIVE BEHAVIOUR............................................................................................................................................... 872 Yong-Min Jiang ; Alvarez, A. ; Cecchi, D. ; Garau, B. ; Micheli, M.

OPTICAL FIBRE HYDROPHONES FOR NAVIGATION SYSTEMS ...................................................................... 878 Maccioni, E. ; Beverini, N. ; Calamai, M. ; Morganti, M. ; Bancallari, L. ; Firpi, S.

THE DESIGN OF OCEAN TURBULENCE MEASUREMENT WITH A MOORED INSTRUMENT................... 882 Xin Luan ; Xiu-Yan Liu ; Shu-Xin Wang ; Hua Yang ; Guo-Jia Hou ; Da-Lei Song

SOFTWARE-DEFINED MULTIBAND ARRAY PASSIVE RADAR (SMARP) DEMONSTRATOR: A TEST AND EVALUATION PERSPECTIVE ............................................................................................................. 887 Capria, A. ; Petri, D. ; Moscardini, C. ; Conti, M. ; Forti, A. C. ; Massini, R. ; Cerretelli, M. ; Ledda, S. ; Tesi, V. ; Dalle Mese, E. ; Gentili, G. B. ; Berizzi, F. ; Martorella, M. ; Soleti, R. ; Martini, T. ; Manco, A.

DEFINITION AND RESULTS OF TEST CASES FOR SHIPPING SOUND MAPS................................................. 893 Colin, M. E. G. D. ; Ainslie, M. A. ; Binnerts, B. ; De Jong, C. A. F. ; Sertlek, H. O. ; Karasalo, I. ; O¨stberg, M. ; Folegot, T. ; Clorennec, D.

POTENTIAL OF THE INTRINSIC DIMENSIONALITY FOR CHARACTERIZING THE SEABED IN THE ATR CONTEXT ................................................................................................................................................. 902 Picard, L. ; Baussard, A. ; Le Chenadec, G. ; Quidu, I.

INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPROVED SDRE CONTROL STRATEGY OF AN AUV BASED ON THE OPTIMUM OF THE ENERGY.............................................................................................................................. 909 Yao Xuliang ; Meng Lingwei

SWATH BATHYMETRIC DATA FUSION APPLICATION TO AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES ........................................................................................................................................................................ 917 Fezzani, R. ; Zerr, B. ; Legris, M. ; Mansour, A. ; Dupas, Y.

AN EXPERIMENT OF REAL-TIME DATA TRANSMISSION OF SONAR IMAGES FROM CRUISING UUV TO DISTANT SUPPORT VESSEL VIA USV: DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERWATER REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION SYSTEM (URCS) BY PARALLEL CRUISING ................. 922 Suzuki, N. ; Kitajima, H. ; Kaba, H. ; Suzuki, T. ; Suto, T. ; Kobayashi, A. ; Ochi, F.

SENSOR-DRIVEN GLIDER DATA PROCESSING..................................................................................................... 928 Cecchi, D. ; Garau, B. ; Camossi, E. ; Berni, A. ; Coelho, E.

REMOTE PRESENCE: POWERFUL TOOL FOR PROMOTION, EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN MARINE ROBOTICS ................................................................................................................................................. 937 Omerdic, E. ; Toal, D. ; Dooly, G.

3D SUB-BOTTOM PROFILING — HIGH RESOLUTION 3D IMAGING OF SHALLOW SUBSURFACE STRUCTURES AND BURIED OBJECTS .......................................................................................... 944 Gutowski, M. ; Malgorn, J. ; Vardy, M.

SIMULTANEOUS MAPPING AND PLANNING FOR AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES IN UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTS ........................................................................................................... 951 Hernandez, J. D. ; Vidal, E. ; Vallicrosa, G. ; Pairet, E. ; Carreras, M.

BAYESIAN SOURCE LOCALIZATION WITH UNCERTAIN GREEN'S FUNCTION ......................................... 957 Le Gall, Y. ; Dosso, S. E. ; Socheleau, F.-X. ; Bonnel, J.

TRAJECTORY GENERATION FOR VESSELS USING A REACHABILITY GRAPH.......................................... 963 Blaich, M. ; Wirtensohn, S. ; Reuter, J. ; Hahn, A.

VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT AS A TOOL TO ACCESS THE MARINE ABYSSES ................................................ 970 Magrini, M. ; Moroni, D. ; Pascali, M. A. ; Reggiannini, M. ; Salvetti, O. ; Tampucci, M.

REALISTIC MODELING OF UNDERWATER AMBIENT NOISE AND ITS INFLUENCE ON SPREAD-SPECTRUM SIGNALS ................................................................................................................................... 975 Aparicio, J. ; Jimenez, A. ; Urena, J. ; Alvarez, F. J.

THE OPTIMAL HYBRID/ELECTRIC FERRY FOR THE LIGURIA NATURAL PARKS.................................... 981 Bianucci, M. ; Merlino, S. ; Ferrando, M. ; Baruzzo, L.

AN ADVANCED AIS RECEIVER USING A PRIORI INFORMATION ................................................................... 991 Hassanin, A. ; Lazaro, F. ; Plass, S.

REAL-TIME LOCALIZATION AND DENSE MAPPING IN UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTS FROM A MONOCULAR SEQUENCE .......................................................................................................................... 998 Concha, A. ; Drews-Jr, P. ; Campos, M. ; Civera, J.

ESTIMATION OF WAVE PARAMETERS FROM HF RADAR USING DIFFERENT METHODOLOGIES AND COMPARED WITH WAVE BUOY MEASUREMENTS AT THE WAVE HUB .................................................................................................................................................................................. 1003 Gomez, R. ; Helzel, T. ; Lopez, G. ; Conley, D. ; Wyatt, L. ; Thomas, N. ; Smet, S. ; Sicot, G.

DEEP GEN: A DEEP WATER HYDRO GENERATOR FOR MOORINGS ........................................................... 1012 Bianucci, M. ; Merlino, S. ; Ottaviani, E. ; Di Benedetti, I.

VERTICAL CABLE SEISMIC SURVEYS FOR SMS EXPLORATION IN IZENA CAULDRON, OKINAWA-TROUGH.................................................................................................................................................... 1017 Asakawa, E. ; Murakami, F. ; Tsukahara, H. ; Mizohata, S. ; Tara, K.

S3MAG — LOW MAGNETIC NOISE AUV FOR MULTIPURPOSE INVESTIGATIONS .................................. 1022 Cocchi, L. ; Carmisciano, C. ; Palangio, P. ; Gualdesi, L.

A TWO-WAY COUPLING CFD METHOD TO SIMULATE THE DYNAMICS OF A WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER................................................................................................................................................ 1026 Bergmann, M. ; Bracco, G. ; Gallizio, F. ; Giorcelli, E. ; Iollo, A. ; Mattiazzo, G. ; Ponzetta, M.

AUTONOMY LEVELS VERSUS COMMUNICATION IN AN UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT ................... 1032 Grythe, K. ; Reinen, T. A. ; Transeth, A. A.

SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF THE UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC NOISE RADIATED BY SHIPS WITH CONTROLLABLE PITCH PROPELLERS..................................................................................................... 1040 Traverso, F. ; Gaggero, T. ; Rizzuto, E. ; Trucco, A.

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF A WAVE ENERGY SCAVENGING SYSTEM ONBOARD AUTONOMOUS SURFACE VESSELS (ASVS) .......................................................................................................... 1046 Bowker, J. A. ; Townsend, N. C. ; Tan, M. ; Shenoi, R. A.

PROPOSAL OF A BIOLOGICAL DATABASE TO RESEARCH FOR THE FISH EPINEPHELUS ITAJARA ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1055 Pichorim, Sergio Francisco ; Suzuki, Danielle Forbeci

PSAMMITE — A SOIL CHARACTERIZATION SYSTEM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS .................. 1060 Laskoski, G. T. ; Pichorim, S. F.

DEVELOPMENT OF AN UNDERWATER GRAVITY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM USING AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE FOR EXPLORATION OF SEAFLOOR DEPOSITS ................... 1065 Shinohara, M. ; Yamada, T. ; Ishihara, T. ; Araya, A. ; Kanazawa, T. ; Fujimoto, H. ; Uehira, K. ; Tsukioka, S. ; Omika, S. ; IIzasa, K.

MICROSTRUCTURE MEASUREMENT FORM AN UNDERWATER GLIDER: MOTION ANALYSIS AND EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS ......................................................................................................... 1072 Yang Weng ; Hua Yang ; Jingyuan He ; Dalei Song

VALIDATION OF A SIMULATION TOOL FOR SHIP TRAFFIC NOISE ............................................................ 1077 Gaggero, T. ; Karasalo, I. ; Ostberg, M. ; Folegot, T. ; Six, L. ; Van Der Schaar, M. ; Andre, M. ; Rizzuto, E.

REDUCING POWER DEMAND AND SPIKES IN DYNAMIC POSITIONING: A MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL APPROACH...................................................................................................................... 1084 Vincenzo, C. ; Hasnes, G.

AN EVALUATION OF ARTIFICIAL FIDUCIAL MARKERS IN UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTS .......................................................................................................................................................... 1089 Brito Dos Santos Cesar, D. ; Gaudig, C. ; Fritsche, M. ; Dos Reis, M. A. ; Kirchner, F.

HETEROGENEOUS ROBOTIC SYSTEM FOR UNDERWATER OIL SPILL SURVEY..................................... 1095 Vasilijevic, A. ; Calado, P. ; Lopez-Castejon, F. ; Hayes, D. ; Stilinovic, N. ; Nad, D. ; Mandic, F. ; Dias, P. ; Gomes, J. ; Molina, J. C. ; Guerrero, A. ; Gilabert, J. ; Miskovic, N. ; Vukic, Z. ; Sousa, J. ; Georgiou, G.

ACOUSTIC DATA ANALYSIS FOR UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES DETECTION AND MAPPING BY MEANS OF AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES................................................. 1102 Allotta, B. ; Costanzi, R. ; Ridolfi, A. ; Pascali, M. A. ; Reggiannini, M. ; Salvetti, O. ; Sharvit, J.

NUMERICAL MODELLING STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF SUSPENDED AQUACULTURE FARMS ON TIDAL STREAM ENERGY GENERATION......................................................................................... 1108 O'Donncha, F. ; James, S. C. ; O'Brien, N. ; Ragnoli, E.

AN ASV FOR COASTAL UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY: THE PLADYPOS SURVEY OF CAESAREA MARITIMA, ISRAEL.............................................................................................................................. 1115 Vasilijevic, A. ; Buxton, B. ; Sharvit, J. ; Stilinovic, N. ; Nad, D. ; Miskovic, N. ; Planer, D. ; Hale, J. ; Vukic, Z.

A MULTIPLE LAYER MODELLING APPROACH TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTS OF TIDAL TURBINE DEPLOYMENT .............................................................................................................................. 1122 O'Brien, N. ; O'Donncha, F. ; Ragnoli, E.

MULTI-VIEW UNDERWATER 3D RECONSTRUCTION USING A STRIPE LASER LIGHT AND AN EYE-IN-HAND CAMERA....................................................................................................................................... 1128 Penalver, A. ; Fernandez, J. J. ; Sales, J. ; Sanz, P. J.

EXPERIMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF UNDERWATER RADIATED SOUND OF DIFFERENT SHIP TYPES.................................................................................................................................................................... 1134 Jansen, H. W. ; De Jong, C. A. F.

SEASONALITY OF WAVE PREDICTION SKILLS FOR SUPPORTING MARINE OPERATIONS IN AN OFFSHORE WIND FARM ................................................................................................................................ 1142 Perez-Landa, G. ; Sainz De Aja, L. ; Orellana, P.

SIGNAL AND RECEIVER DESIGN FOR LOW-POWER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS USING M-ARY ORTHOGONAL CODE KEYING .................................................................................................... 1148 Sherlock, B. ; Tsimenidis, C. C. ; Neasham, J. A.

TOWARDS AN IMMERSIVE AND NATURAL GESTURE CONTROLLED INTERFACE FOR INTERVENTION UNDERWATER ROBOTS............................................................................................................. 1158 Garcia, J. C. ; Patrao, B. ; Perez, J. ; Seabra, J. ; Menezes, P. ; Dias, J. ; Sanz, P. J.

POWER AND SCIENCE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COMMISSION ON THE LIMITS OF THE CONTINENTAL SHELF................................................................................................................................................ 1163 Martins, Tiago Figueiredo Santos

A STUDY FOR THE RESTORATION OF A PLATFORM-ISLAND OIL TERMINAL........................................ 1168 Di Fresco, L. ; Barberis, S.

OCEAN SURFACE VEHICLES FOR MARITIME SECURITY APPLICATIONS (THE PERSEUS PROJECT) ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1173 Real-Arce, D. A. ; Barrera, C. ; Hernandez, J. ; Llinas, O.

CORRELATION BETWEEN COASTAL TIDES AND THE SPEED OF COMMERCIAL VESSELS ................ 1177 Hjelmervik, K. ; Schoyen, H.

MODELING THE THROUGHPUT OF 1-PERSISTENT CSMA IN UNDERWATER NETWORKS .................. 1182 Olivier, A. ; Zorzi, M. ; Casari, P.

ENABLING CENTRAL ACCESS TO MARINE DATA: DATA PORTAL GERMAN MARINE RESEARCH ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1188 Koppe, R. ; Schafer, A.

A HYBRID RECORDED-SYNTHETIC SONAR DATA SET FOR VALIDATION OF ASW CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS ............................................................................................................................ 1193 Hjelmervik, K. T. ; Berg, H. ; Stender, D. H. S. ; Sastad, T. S.

BOOSTING THE TALENT OF NEW GENERATIONS OF MARINE ENGINEERS THROUGH ROBOTICS COMPETITIONS IN REALISTIC ENVIRONMENTS: THE SAUC-E AND EURATHLON EXPERIENCE....................................................................................................................................... 1198 Ferri, G. ; Ferreira, F. ; Djapic, V.

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF T-TRANSFORM BASED OFDM IN UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS .............................................................................................................................. 1204 Hengda Ding ; Neasham, J. A. ; Boussakta, S. ; Tsimenidis, C. C.

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF POLYPROPYLENE FRAME FOR REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE......................................................................................................................................................................... 1211 Pranesh, S. B. ; Sathianarayanan, D. ; Chandrasekar, E. ; Murugesan, M. ; Ramadass, G. A. ; Atmanand, M. A.

ESTIMATION OF OCEANOGRAPHIC PROFILES AND CLIMATOLOGICAL REGIONS IN THE BARENTS SEA ...................................................................................................................................................... 1217 Hjelmervik, K. ; Hjelmervik, K. T. ; Ostenstad, P.

STABILIZATION OF AN AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE RELATIVE TO THE SEA BOTTOM BY MEANS OF THE STEREOSCOPIC IMAGES PROCESSING ........................................................ 1223 Goi, V. ; Gatsenko, A. ; Shestopalov, G. ; Sporyshev, M. ; Tolstonogov, A. ; Scherbatyuk, A. P.

BENCHMARKING USING UWSIM, SIMURV AND ROS: AN AUTONOMOUS FREE FLOATING DREDGING INTERVENTION CASE STUDY ........................................................................................................... 1228 Fernandez, J. J. ; Perez, J. ; Penalver, A. ; Sales, J. ; Fornas, D. ; Sanz, P. J.

TOWARDS FULLY AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES IN ASW SCENARIOS: AN ADAPTIVE, DATA DRIVEN AUV MISSION MANAGEMENT LAYER ............................................................... 1235 Ferri, G. ; Munafo, A. ; Goldhahn, R. ; Lepage, K.

TECHNOLOGIES BEING DEVELOPED IN INDIA FOR UTILIZSATION OF OCEAN RESOURCES................................................................................................................................................................... 1244 Atmanand, M. A. ; Jalihal, P. ; Ramesh, S. ; Vedachalam, N. ; Ramadass, G. A.

PROJECT “V-FIDES”: AN INNOVATIVE, MULTI PURPOSE, AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER PLATFORM .................................................................................................................................................................... 1253 Novi, M. ; Pacini, F. ; Paoli, G. ; Saviozzi, G. ; Ballini, G. ; Caiti, A. ; Di Corato, F. ; Fenucci, D. ; Grechi, S. ; Reggiannini, R. ; Carrai, F.

SIMULATION OF MULTIMODAL OPTICAL AND ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS IN UNDERWATER NETWORKS...................................................................................................................................... 1262 Campagnaro, F. ; Favaro, F. ; Guerra, F. ; Sanjuan Calzado, V. ; Zorzi, M. ; Casari, P.

BLUE WHALES (BALENOPTERA MUSCULUS) IN THE CANAL MORALEDA AND GOLFO CORCOVADO, CHILE.................................................................................................................................................. 1269 Bocconcelli, A. ; Hickmott, L. ; Landea Briones, R. ; Howes, G. ; Sayigh, L.

IN-SITU PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF SATELLITE COMMUNICATION IN THE HIGH NORTH ............................................................................................................................................................................ 1278 Rodseth, O. J. ; Kvamstad-Lervold, B. ; Dac Ho, T.

PREDICTION OF THE ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERFERENCE DUE TO ANTENNA SYSTEMS IN NON-METALLIC VESSELS.................................................................................................................................... 1284 Ustuner, F. ; Demirel, E. ; Baran, E. ; Gokdogan, I. H. ; Cosar, C.

PROJECT “V-FIDES”: FREE FLOODED VEHICLE FOR DEEP SEA EXPLORATION ................................... 1291 Pacini, F. ; Paoli, G. ; Perillo, M. ; Rossetti, F. ; Di Fazio, A. ; Sgro`, G. ; Nardini, L.

GLIDER-BASED SEABED CHARACTERIZATION USING NATURAL-MADE AMBIENT NOISE ................ 1296 Nielsen, P. L. ; Siderius, M. ; Muzi, L.

THE ISMAR HIGH FREQUENCY COASTAL RADAR NETWORK: MONITORING SURFACE CURRENTS FOR MANAGEMENT OF MARINE RESOURCES ............................................................................ 1303 Corgnati, L. ; Mantovani, C. ; Griffa, A. ; Bellomo, L. ; Carlson, D. F. ; Magaldi, M. G. ; Berta, M. ; Pazienza, G. ; D'Adamo, R.

CREATING 360° UNDERWATER VIRTUAL TOURS USING AN OMNIDIRECTIONAL CAMERA INTEGRATED IN AN AUV ........................................................................................................................ 1311 Bosch, J. ; Ridao, P. ; Ribas, D. ; Gracias, N.

SEAFLOOR MASSIVE SULFIDE DEPOSITS: CONTINUING EFFORTS TOWARD A GLOBAL ESTIMATE OF SEAFLOOR MASSIVE SULFIDES.................................................................................................. 1318 Hannington, M. D. ; Jamieson, J. ; Petersen, S.

FROM THE SEAFLOOR TO THE SEA SURFACE: A TECHNICAL SOLUTION FOR THE CABLED EMSO-SN1 OBSERVATORY IN THE WESTERN IONIAN SEA .......................................................... 1321 Sparnocchia, S. ; Borghini, M. ; Durante, S. ; Meccia, V. ; Giordano, A. ; Biasini, G.

AN INNOVATIVE CLEANING TOOL FOR UNDERWATER SOFT CLEANING OPERATIONS .................... 1326 Gundogdu, H. T. ; Dede, M. I. C. ; Taner, B. ; Ridolfi, A. ; Costanzi, R. ; Allotta, B.

AN UNDERWATER STEREO VISION SYSTEM: FROM DESIGN TO DEPLOYMENT AND DATASET ACQUISITION ............................................................................................................................................ 1334 Oleari, F. ; Kallasi, F. ; Rizzini, D. L. ; Aleotti, J. ; Caselli, S.

ON THE USE OF INFORMATION-CARRYING BASED ROUTE PROTOCOL IN REAL UWSN DEPLOYMENTS WITH HIGH TRAFFIC LOAD...................................................................................................... 1340 Lie, A. ; Trandem, O. ; Knudsen, F. T. ; Reinen, T. A. ; Alvsaaker, M.

COMPUTER VISION IN UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTS: A MULTISCALE GRAPH SEGMENTATION APPROACH................................................................................................................................... 1350 Kallasi, F. ; Rizzini, D. L. ; Oleari, F. ; Aleotti, J.

OPTIMIZATION OF SURVEILLANCE VESSEL NETWORK PLANNING IN MARITIME COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS BY FUSING METOC & AIS VESSEL TRAFFIC INFORMATION ............................................................................................................................................................. 1356 Fabbri, T. ; Vicen-Bueno, R. ; Grasso, R. ; Pallotta, G. ; Millefiori, L. M. ; Cazzanti, L.

PROACTIVE MARINE INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING........................ 1363 Moroni, D. ; Pieri, G. ; Salvetti, O. ; Tampucci, M.

MODEL SCALE INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF DIFFERENT SPEED REDUCTION STRATEGIES ON CAVITATING PROPELLER RADIATED NOISE.................................................................... 1368 Tani, G. ; Viviani, M. ; Rizzuto, E.

ENABLING FAULT RECOVERY AND ADAPTATION IN MINE-COUNTERMEASURES MISSIONS USING ONTOLOGIES .............................................................................................................................. 1376 Papadimitriou, G. ; Saigol, Z. ; Lane, D. M.

DESIGN OF WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER (WEC): A PROTOTYPE INSTALLED IN SICILY .................... 1383 Viola, A. ; Franzitta, V. ; Curto, D. ; Trapanese, M. ; Di Dio, V. ; Cipriani, G. ; Boscaino, V. ; Corpora, M. ; Raimondi, F. M.

HIGH RESOLUTION, THREE DIMENSIONAL MODELING OF THE CIRCULATION IN THE GULF OF LA SPEZIA (NORTHWESTERN MEDITERRANEAN) ......................................................................... 1388 Porciello, L. ; Magaldi, M. G. ; Griffa, A. ; Borghini, M. ; Barbolini, M. ; Ferro, F.

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD AND SUB-LOOK PROCESSING IN SHIP DETECTION BY SAR........................... 1396 Renga, A. ; Daniela Graziano, M. ; Moccia, A. ; D'Errico, M.

A SHIPPING NOISE PREDICTION TOOL ................................................................................................................ 1404 Soares, C. ; Zabel, F. ; Jesus, S. M.

BARENTS SEA MONITORING WITH A SEA EXPLORER GLIDER ................................................................... 1411 Field, M. ; Beguery, L. ; Oziel, L. ; Gascard, J. C.

SENSORIZED BUOY FOR OIL SPILL EARLY DETECTION................................................................................ 1416 Moroni, D. ; Pieri, G. ; Salvetti, O. ; Tampucci, M. ; Domenici, C. ; Tonacci, A.

AZIMUTH AMBIGUITY SPATIAL CORRELATION COMPOSITE (ASCC): A NOVEL METHOD FOR GHOST ENHANCEMENT IN SAR IMAGES.................................................................................................... 1421 Gemme, L. ; Dellepiane, S. ; Vernazza, G.

ROS MULTI-AGENT STRUCTURE FOR AUTONOMOUS SURFACE VEHICLES ........................................... 1426 Conte, G. ; Scaradozzi, D. ; Sorbi, L. ; Panebianco, L. ; Mannocchi, D.

SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA MINING FOR MARITIME SITUATIONAL AWARENESS ................................. 1432 Fernandez Arguedas, V. ; Mazzarella, F. ; Vespe, M.

POSITIONING OF SUBSEA MODULES USING AN AUTOMATED ROV ........................................................... 1440 Henriksen, E. H. ; Gjersvik, T. B. ; Thorkildsen, B.

3D REAL-TIME TRACKING, FOLLOWING AND IMAGING OF WHITE SHARKS WITH AN AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE............................................................................................................. 1448 Kukulya, A. L. ; Stokey, R. ; Littlefield, R. ; Jaffre, F. ; Hoyos Padilla, E. M. ; Skomal, G.

CATCHMENT APPROACH TO PASSIVE SAMPLING OF IRISH WATERS ...................................................... 1454 Jones, L. ; Ronan, J. ; McGovern, E. ; McHugh, B. ; Regan, F.

EUROPEAN MARINE OBSERVATION DATA NETWORK — EMODNET PHYSICS ...................................... 1461 Novellino, A. ; D'Angelo, P. ; Benedetti, G. ; Manzella, G. ; Schaap, D. ; Gorringe, P. ; Pouliquen, S. ; Rickards, L.

DISTRIBUTED MULTI-AUV COOPERATION METHODS FOR UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY ........................................................................................................................................................... 1467 Tsiogkas, N. ; Saigol, Z. ; Lane, D.

MODELING COLORED IMPULSIVE NOISE BY MARKOV CHAINS AND ALPHA-STABLE PROCESSES.................................................................................................................................................................... 1472 Mahmood, A. ; Chitre, M.

FISHING GEAR RECOGNITION FROM VMS DATA TO IDENTIFY ILLEGAL FISHING ACTIVITIES IN INDONESIA....................................................................................................................................... 1479 Marzuki, M. I. ; Garello, R. ; Fablet, R. ; Kerbaol, V. ; Gaspar, P.

EXPERIMENTAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND VALIDATION OF DYNAMICAL CONTACT MODELS OF THE OCEAN GRAZER .................................................................................................... 1484 Van Rooij, M. ; Meijer, H. ; Prins, W. A. ; Vakis, A. I.

INFORMATION FUSION IN NETWORKED UNDERWATER TARGET DETECTION .................................... 1490 Yangze Dong ; Gangqiang Zhang ; Xudong He ; Jiansheng Tang

LOW COST STEREO SYSTEM FOR IMAGING AND 3D RECONSTRUCTION OF UNDERWATER ORGANISMS..................................................................................................................................... 1494 Mazzei, L. ; Corgnati, L. ; Marini, S. ; Ottaviani, E. ; Isoppo, B.

MINING MARITIME VESSEL TRAFFIC: PROMISES, CHALLENGES, TECHNIQUES.................................. 1498 Cazzanti, L. ; Pallotta, G.

VISUAL DIVER DETECTION USING MULTI-DESCRIPTOR NEAREST-CLASS-MEAN RANDOM FORESTS IN THE CONTEXT OF UNDERWATER HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION (HRI)................................................................................................................................................................................. 1504 Gomez Chavez, A. ; Pfingsthorn, M. ; Birk, A. ; Rendulic, I. ; Miskovic, N.

WEATHER ROUTING FOR A WIND DRIVEN HYBRID MERCHANT VESSEL ............................................... 1511 Walther, L. ; Jahn, C. ; Lade, T.

QUADRATIC CHIRP MODULATION FOR UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS .................................................................................................................................................... 1518 Pecci, A. C. ; Laot, C. ; Bourre, A.

EVOLUTION AND PROSPECTS OF UNDERWATER ROBOT COMPETITION IN JAPAN ............................ 1525 Arima, M. ; Ishii, K. ; Ura, T. ; Maki, T. ; Kondo, H.

FP7-OCEAN-2013 — SCHEMA: INTEGRATED IN SITU CHEMICAL MAPPING PROBES............................ 1531 Tercier Waeber, M.-L. ; Bakker, E. ; Nardin, C. ; Mongin, S. ; Prado, E. ; Cuartero Botia, M. ; Mazaikoff, B. ; Luxenburger, F. ; Klimant, I. ; Mistlberger, G. ; Mueller, B. ; Van Der Val, P. ; Fighera, M. ; Fernandez Sanchez, J. ; Medina Castillo, A. L. ; Navarro, A. V. ; Schaefer, J. ; Abdou, M. ; Novellino, A. ; D'Angelo, P. ; Confalonieri, F. ; Castellano, M. ; Magi, E. ; Massa, F. ; Povero, P.

UNDERWATER PLACE RECOGNITION IN NOISY STEREO DATA USING FAB-MAP WITH A MULTIMODAL VOCABULARY FROM 2D TEXTURE AND 3D SURFACE DESCRIPTORS .......................... 1536 Enchev, I. ; Pfingsthorn, M. ; Luczynski, T. ; Sokolovski, I. ; Birk, A. ; Tietjen, D.

INFLUENCE OF TEMPERATURE ON SIGNAL ATTENUATION AT MICROWAVES FREQUENCIES UNDERWATER ................................................................................................................................ 1544 Reyes-Guerrero, J. C. ; Ciamulski, T.

MULTI-ROBOT EXPLORATION WITH AUVS ON CLIFFS AND OTHER 3D STRUCTURES WITH A PREDOMINANT ORIENTATION ............................................................................................................... 1548 Rathnam, R. ; Birk, A.

STRUCTURED LIGHT SYSTEM FOR UNDERWATER INSPECTION OPERATIONS..................................... 1555 Lopes, F. ; Silva, H. ; Almeida, J. M. ; Martins, A. ; Silva, E.

VALIDATION OF THE ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK ROUTE PROPAGATION MODEL IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA .............................................................................................................................................. 1561 Millefiori, L. M. ; Pallotta, G. ; Braca, P. ; Horn, S. ; Bryan, K.

EVALUATION OF DETECTION BASED ON STATISTICS AND TEMPLATE MATCHING CLASSIFICATION ON SAS AUV DATA .................................................................................................................... 1567 Jonsson, M. ; Esteki, H.

USING GSTREAMER FOR ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING IN DEPLOYABLE SENSOR NODES ............................................................................................................................................................................. 1574 Otnes, R. ; Eastwood, J. ; Colin, M. E. G. D.

REQUIREMENTS AND DESIGN OF HIGHLY ACCURATE POSITION CONTROL SYSTEM FOR UNDERWATER VISUAL INSPECTION ........................................................................................................... 1580 Hyun-Taek Choi ; Jinwoo Choi ; Yeongjun Lee

NARROWBAND DETECTION OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC SIGNAL UNDER NOISE UNCERTAINTIES .......................................................................................................................................................... 1585 Gurugopinath, S. ; Anand, G. V.

DUAL-TREE COMPLEX WAVELET TRANSFORMATION BASED SAND RIPPLE SUPPRESSION................................................................................................................................................................ 1590 Klemm, R. ; Lehmann, B. ; Kraus, D.

HARDWARE IN THE LOOP SIMULATION OF A DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER GENERATOR FOR OSCILLATING WATER COLUMN WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS ....................................................... 1596 Moretti, G. ; Papini Rosati, G. P. ; Fontana, M. ; Vertechy, R.

NEURAL DYNAMICS AND SLIDING MODE INTEGRATION FOR THE GUIDANCE OF UNMANNED SURFACE VEHICLES .......................................................................................................................... 1603 Di Lecce, N. ; Laschi, C. ; Bibuli, M. ; Bruzzone, G. ; Zereik, E.

PASSIVE ACOUSTIC SURVEILLANCE OF SURFACE VESSELS USING TRIDIMENSIONAL ARRAY ON AN UNDERWATER GLIDER ................................................................................................................ 1609 Tesei, A. ; Been, R. ; Williams, D. ; Cardeira, B. ; Galletti, D. ; Cecchi, D. ; Garau, B. ; Maguer, A.

INVESTIGATION ON THE EFFECTS OF A SAILING SHIP MOTION BY TSUNAMI ..................................... 1617 Shiotani, S. ; Xinzhu Liu ; Chen Chen

UNDERWATER 3D RECONSTRUCTION USING BLUEVIEW IMAGING SONAR........................................... 1622 Guerneve, T. ; Petillot, Y.

A MODULAR AND SCALABLE CONTROL ARCHITECTURE FOR NAVIGATION OF AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES .......................................................................................................... 1629 Lastra, F. J. ; Velasco, F. J. ; Revestido Herrero, E. ; Trujillo Medina, J. A. ; Vega, L. M.

ONLINE DATA SUMMARIES FOR SEMANTIC MAPPING AND ANOMALY DETECTION WITH AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES .............................................................................................. 1635 Kaeli, J. W. ; Singh, H.

DEVELOPMENT OF THE “SEATRAC” MINIATURE ACOUSTIC MODEM AND USBL POSITIONING UNITS FOR SUBSEA ROBOTICS AND DIVER APPLICATIONS ............................................. 1642 Neasham, J. A. ; Goodfellow, G. ; Sharphouse, R.

OBSERVATIONS OF AMBIENT NOISES INDUCED BY THE INTERNAL SOLITARY WAVES ON THE CONTINENTAL SLOPE OF THE NORTHERN SOUTH CHINA SEA:: AMBIENT NOISES BY ISW IN SCS................................................................................................................................................ 1650 Yiing Jang Yang ; Ramp, S. R. ; Ching-Sang Chiu ; Reeder, D. B. ; Wu, J. C.-H. ; Chi-Fang Chen ; Wen-Der Liang

A RADAR CROSS SECTION AND RADAR PERFORMANCE EVALUATION TOOL FOR THE EARLY STAGE SHIP DESIGN (ESSD) PHASE......................................................................................................... 1654 Cerruti, M. ; Pastorino, M. ; Randazzo, A. ; Perra, F. ; Guagnano, A.

SHADOWING-ANALYSIS-BASED WAVE HEIGHT MEASUREMENT FROM SHIP-BORNE XBAND NAUTICAL RADAR IMAGES ......................................................................................................................... 1659 Xinlong Liu ; Weimin Huang ; Gill, E. W.

USING DIRECT-TOUCH INTERACTION FOR THE VISUAL EXPLORATION OF PROFILING SENSOR DATA............................................................................................................................................................... 1663 Ruth, T. ; Audersch, S. ; Huber, L. ; Von Lukas, U. F. ; Zabel, J.

A BAYESIAN MARINE DEBRIS DETECTOR USING EXISTING HYDROGRAPHIC DATA PRODUCTS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1671 Masetti, G. ; Calder, B. R.

SYSTEM OF DETECTING UNDERWATER THREATS IN SIDE SCAN SONAR IMAGES............................... 1681 Matsuda, Y. ; Ogawa, M. ; Yano, M.

NEXOS SMART ELECTRONIC INTERFACE FOR SENSOR INTEROPERABILITY ....................................... 1685 Toma, D. M. ; Del Rio, J. ; Jirka, S. ; Delory, E. ; Pearlman, J. ; Waldmann, C.

MULTI-BEAM TERRAIN/OBJECT CLASSIFICATION FOR UNDERWATER NAVIGATION CORRECTION................................................................................................................................................................ 1690 Palomer, A. ; Ridao, P. ; Ribas, D. ; Vallicrosa, G.

ON THE PERFORMANCE OF WIDELY LINEAR SC-FDE SYSTEMS FOR UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION................................................................................................................................. 1695 Chang, B. S. ; Souza, R. D. ; Pellenz, M. E.

STATISTICAL METHOD FOR CYCLONE PROBABILISTIC ASSESSMENT.................................................... 1699 De Masi, G. ; Mattioli, M. ; Drago, M.

INVESTIGATING THE MEDITERRANEAN BY SEAFLOOR OBSERVATIONS: THE EASTERN BRANCH OF THE EMSO LIGURIAN SEA NODE ................................................................................................... 1706 Locritani, M. ; Beranzoli, L. ; Carmisciano, C. ; Embriaco, D. ; Muccini, F. ; Favali, P. ; Aguzzi, J. ; Benedetti, A. ; Liggieri, L. ; Ciuffardi, T. ; Cocito, S. ; Delfanti, R. ; Fanelli, E. ; Peirano, A. ; Coelho, E. F. ; Stoner, R. ; Dialti, L. ; Pizzeghello, N. ; Marini, D. ; Martinelli, A. ; Stroobant, M. ; Marini, S. ; Vetrano, A. ; Povero, P. ; Stifani, M.

SYNTHETIC METOCEAN TIME SERIES GENERATION FOR OFFSHORE OPERABILITY AND DESIGN BASED ON MULTIVARIATE MARKOV MODEL ......................................................................... 1712 De Masi, G. ; Bruschi, R. ; Drago, M.

MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO CORROSION ASSESSMENT IN SUBSEA PIPELINES ................... 1718 De Masi, G. ; Gentile, M. ; Vichi, R. ; Bruschi, R. ; Gabetta, G.

UNDERWATER STEREO CALIBRATION UTILIZING VIRTUAL OBJECT POINTS...................................... 1724 Dolereit, T. ; Von Lukas, U. F. ; Kuijper, A.

METRICS OF AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE STUDENT COMPETITIONS............................... 1731 Curtin, T. B.

A INNOVATIVE SEMI-IMMERGIBLE USV (SI-USV) DRONE FOR MARINE AND LAKES OPERATIONS WITH INSTRUMENTAL TELEMETRY AND ACOUSTIC DATA ACQUISITION CAPABILITY .................................................................................................................................................................. 1741 Raimondi, F. M. ; Trapanese, M. ; Franzitta, V. ; Viola, A. ; Colucci, A.

TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL BENTHIC DATA COLLECTION VIA MOBILE ROBOTS: PRESENT AND FUTURE APPLICATIONS ............................................................................................................... 1751 Thomsen, L. ; Purser, A. ; Schwendner, J. ; Duda, A. ; Flogen, S. ; Kwasnitschka, T. ; Pfannkuche, O. ; Wilde, D. ; Rosta, R.

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES FOR SUPPORTING THE RESTORATION OF UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGICAL ARTEFACTS ............................................................................................. 1756 Bruno, F. ; Muzzupappa, M. ; Gallo, A. ; Barbieri, L. ; Galati, D. ; Spadafora, F. ; Davidde Petriaggi, B. ; Petriaggi, R.

A INNOVATIVE LATERALS HYDRO FLOATING TILTING SYSTEMS FOR USV OR SURFACE NAUTICAL VEHICLES ................................................................................................................................................ 1761 Raimondi, F. M. ; Scibilia, N. ; Franzitta, V. ; Viola, A.

UNDERWATER ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEM BASED ON PLUCKED-DRIVEN PIEZOELECTRICS........................................................................................................................................................ 1770 Toma, D. M. ; Del Rio, J. ; Carbonell-Ventura, M. ; Masalles, J. M.

A INNOVATIVE MONITORING UNDERWATER BUOY SYSTEMS (MUNBUS) FOR MARINE AND RIVERS INSTALLATION WITH IR-CAM, INSTRUMENTAL TELEMETRY AND ACOUSTIC DATA ACQUISITION CAPABILITY .................................................................................................... 1775 Raimondi, F. M. ; Trapanese, M. ; Franzitta, V. ; Viola, A.

CALIBRATION METHOD FOR UNDERWATER VISUAL GROUND-TRUTH SYSTEM ................................. 1782 Faria, A. ; Almeida, J. ; Dias, A. ; Martins, A. ; Silva, E.

A ROV FOR SUPPORTING THE PLANNED MAINTENANCE IN UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES........................................................................................................................................ 1788 Bruno, F. ; Muzzupappa, M. ; Lagudi, A. ; Gallo, A. ; Spadafora, F. ; Ritacco, G. ; Angilica, A. ; Barbieri, L. ; Di Lecce, N. ; Saviozzi, G. ; Laschi, C. ; Guida, R. ; Di Stefano, G.

THE FIRST-ORDER BISTATIC HIGH FREQUENCY RADAR SCATTERING CROSS SECTION OF THE OCEAN SURFACE FOR THE CASE OF A FLOATING PLATFORM ................................................... 1795 Yue Ma ; Gill, E. W. ; Weimin Huang

FOREIGN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH VESSELS IN WATERS UNDER PORTUGUESE SOVEREIGNTY OR JURISDICTION ......................................................................................................................... 1799 Ferreira Da Silva, J.

ITERATIVE ADAPTIVE APPROACH TO DOA ESTIMATION WITH ACOUSTIC VECTOR SENSORS......................................................................................................................................................................... 1805 Agarwal, A. ; Kumar, A. ; Agrawal, M.

EMSO EUROPEAN RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED STRATEGY FOR THE OBSERVATION OF THE SEAFLOOR AND THE WATER COLUMN ........................ 1813 Favali, P. ; Beranzoli, L. ; Materia, P. ; Picard, J. B. ; Best, M. M. R. ; Rolin, J.-F. ; Cannat, M. ; Waldmann, C. ; Gillooly, M. ; Hall, P. O. J. ; Lykousis, V. ; Ruhl, H. A. ; Ferre, B. ; Mienert, J. ; De Miranda, J. M. A. ; Namik Cagatay, M. ; De Stigter, H. ; Danobeitia, J. J. ; Delory, E. ; Oaie, G. ; Radulescu, V.

A NOVEL DOUBLE-SIDED LINEAR GENERATOR FOR WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION ........................... 1815 Curcic, M. ; Quaicoe, J. E. ; Bachmayer, R.

THE DYNAMIC COMPACT CONTROL LANGUAGE VERSION 3 ...................................................................... 1822 Schneider, T. ; Petillo, S. ; Schmidt, H. ; Murphy, C.

LEARNING MULTIPLE STRATEGIES TO PERFORM A VALVE TURNING WITH UNDERWATER CURRENTS USING AN I-AUV....................................................................................................... 1829 Carrera, A. ; Palomeras, N. ; Hurtos, N. ; Kormushev, P. ; Carreras, M.

AN IN-SITU, REAL-TIME DEVICE FOR HG MONITORING IN DEEP WATERS............................................. 1837 Saviozzi, G. ; Bartaloni, F. ; Fornai, F. ; Laschi, C. ; Dario, P. ; Pacini, F. ; Mashyanov, N. ; Sholupov, S. ; Pogarev, S. ; Volpi, L. ; Teti, G.

IMPROVED RANGE ESTIMATION AND UNDERWATER IMAGE ENHANCEMENT UNDER TURBIDITY BY OPTI-ACOUSTIC STEREO IMAGING......................................................................................... 1842 Babaee, M. ; Negahdaripour, S.

IMPROVEMENT OF BLIND MULTICHANNEL RECEIVERS FOR UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS BY DELAY-BASED EQUALIZER INITIALIZATION ...................................................... 1849 Schulz, F.

COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION OF HETEROGENEOUS UNMANNED SYSTEMS USING THE JOINT ARCHITECTURE FOR UNMANNED SYSTEMS (JAUS) STANDARDS ........................... 1856 Incze, M. L. ; Sideleau, S. R. ; Gagner, C. ; Pippin, C. A.

DEVELOPMENT OF AN AUTONOMOUS BUOY SYSTEM FOR AUV ................................................................ 1862 Nishida, Y. ; Kojima, J. ; Ito, Y. ; Tamura, K. ; Sugimatsu, H. ; Kangsoo Kim ; Sudo, T. ; Ura, T.

THE GENERALIZED SINUSOIDAL FREQUENCY MODULATED WAVEFORM FOR CONTINUOUS ACTIVE SONAR ................................................................................................................................. 1868 Hague, D. A. ; Buck, J. R.

AUTONOMOUS & ADAPTIVE OCEANOGRAPHIC FRONT TRACKING ON BOARD AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES .......................................................................................................... 1876 Petillo, S. ; Schmidt, H. ; Lermusiaux, P. ; Yoerger, D. ; Balasuriya, A.

MIMO SONAR SYSTEMS FOR HARBOUR SURVEILLANCE.............................................................................. 1886 Pailhas, Y. ; Petillot, Y.

SPARSITY-DRIVEN PASSIVE TRACKING OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC SOURCES ................................ 1892 Forero, P. A. ; Baxley, P. ; Straatemeier, L.

REINFORCEMENT LEARNING IN A BEHAVIOUR-BASED CONTROL ARCHITECTURE FOR MARINE ARCHAEOLOGY.......................................................................................................................................... 1898 Frost, G. ; Maurelli, F. ; Lane, D. M.

EXTRACTION OF STRIATIONS FROM CONTINUOUS ACTIVE SONAR (CAS) DATA................................. 1903 Schecklman, S. ; Zurk, L. M.

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES FOR REMOTE SAMPLE COLLECTION: ENABLING MARINE RESEARCH ..................................................................................................................................................................... 1910 Bennett, A. ; Barrett, D. ; Preston, V. ; Woo, J. ; Chandra, S. ; Diggins, D. ; Chapman, R. ; Wee, A. ; Zhecan Wang ; Rush, M. ; Kerr, I.

OCEAN MONITORING WITH SAR: AN OVERVIEW ............................................................................................ 1918 Di Martino, G. ; Iodice, A. ; Riccio, D. ; Ruello, G.

MODELING 2-D FORWARD-SCAN SONAR IMAGERY FOR DIFFUSE REFLECTORS ................................. 1923 Aykin, M. D. ; Negahdaripour, S.

REALISTIC EXTENDED TARGET MODEL FOR TRACK BEFORE DETECT IN MARITIME SURVEILLANCE ........................................................................................................................................................... 1931 Errasti-Alcala, B. ; Fuscaldo, W. ; Braca, P. ; Vivone, G.

ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING MODELS FOR OCEAN REMOTE SENSING: OVERVIEW AND GUIDE TO USE.............................................................................................................................. 1940 Di Martino, G. ; Iodice, A. ; Riccio, D. ; Ruello, G.

UNDERWATER RADIO FREQUENCY BASED LOCALIZATION AND IMAGE TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, INCLUDING SPECIFIC COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES, FOR AUTONOMOUS MANIPULATION ........................................................................................................................................................... 1944 Centelles, D. ; Rubino, E. ; Soler, M. ; Marti, J. V. ; Sales, J. ; Marin, R. ; Sanz, P. J.

ON 3-D TARGET RECONSTRUCTION FROM MULTIPLE 2-D FORWARD-SCAN SONAR VIEWS.............................................................................................................................................................................. 1949 Aykin, M. D. ; Negahdaripour, S.

PERFORMANCE OF AN AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE BORNE ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER .............................................................................................................................. 1959 Cusi, S. ; Rodriguez, P. ; Roque, D.

FEELING THE PULSE OF PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF SCIENCE: DOES RESEARCH MAKE OUR HEARTS BEAT FASTER?................................................................................................................................... 1965 Locritani, M. ; Batzu, I. ; Carmisciano, C. ; Muccini, F. ; Talamoni, R. ; La Tassa, H. ; Stroobant, M. ; Guccinelli, G. ; Benvenuti, L. ; Abbate, M. ; Furia, S. ; Benedetti, A. ; Bernardini, M. I. ; Centi, R. ; Casale, L. ; Vannucci, C. ; Giacomazzi, F. ; Marini, C. ; Tosi, D. ; Merlino, S. ; Mioni, E. ; Nacini, F.

EXTENDED TARGET TRACKING APPLIED TO X-BAND MARINE RADAR DATA ...................................... 1973 Vivone, G. ; Braca, P. ; Errasti-Alcala, B.

INTELLIGENT PLANNING WITH PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT FOR AUTONOMOUS SURFACE VEHICLES................................................................................................................................................... 1979 Izzo, P. ; Veres, S. M.

MULTI-TARGET BEARING TRACKING WITH A SINGLE ACOUSTIC VECTOR SENSOR BASED ON MULTI-BERNOULLI FILTER................................................................................................................ 1985 Gunes, A. ; Guldogan, M. B.

FACILITATING MULTI-AUV COLLABORATION FOR MARINE ARCHAEOLOGY ..................................... 1990 Tsiogkas, N. ; Frost, G. ; Monni, N. ; Lane, D.

CALIBRATION OF THE SAMPLING JITTER EFFECT ON WIND DIRECTION MEASUREMENT FROM PLATFORM-BASED HF RADAR .................................................................................. 1994 Wei Wang ; Gill, E. W.

AUTONOMOUS, RETRIEVABLE, DEEP SEA MICROBIAL FUEL CELL.......................................................... 2000 Richter, K. E. ; George, R. ; Hardy, K.

EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATION OF TIME WARPING TO INVERT FOR ARRAY TILT AND MODE SHAPE ON A VERTICAL ARRAY IN A SHALLOW ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT ........................ 2005 Thode, A. M. ; Bonnel, J.

ADJUSTABLE WAVE CHAMBER FOR BETTER OCEAN WAVE ENERGY HARVESTING.......................... 2012 Sateriale, M. ; Sadaat, Y. ; Ghorbani, R.

HIGH DUTY CYCLE (HDC) SONAR PROCESSING INTERVAL AND BANDWIDTH EFFECTS FOR THE TREX'13 DATASET..................................................................................................................................... 2019 Plate, R. ; Grimmett, D.

WAVE ENERGY RESOURCE ASSESSMENT AND RECOVERABLE WAVE ENERGY IN PUERTO RICO AND THE US VIRGIN ISLANDS .................................................................................................... 2029 Garcia, C. ; Canals, M.

THE SECOND GENERATION OF AUTONOMOUS SURFACE VESSELS: OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE FOR AUVS ASSISTANCE AT SEA.............................................................................................. 2034 Brizzolara, S.

LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE OF SEGMENTED BENTHIC MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS............................ 2042 Arias-Thode, Y. M. ; Hsu, L. ; Kagan, J. A. ; Chadwick, D. B.

ACTUATION OF WIND-LOADING TORQUE ON VERTICAL AXIS TURBINES AT MODEL SCALE.............................................................................................................................................................................. 2047 Koukina, E. ; Kanner, S. ; Yeung, R. W.

ROBUST HIERARCHICAL CONTROL STRATEGY FOR HEAVING WAVE ENERGY CONVERTERS ............................................................................................................................................................... 2055 Wahyudie, A. ; Jama, M. A. ; Saed, O.

VARIABLE STRUCTURE INTERACTING MULTIPLE MODEL ALGORITHM FOR SHIP TRACKING USING HF SURFACE WAVE RADAR DATA..................................................................................... 2060 Vivone, G. ; Braca, P. ; Horstmann, J.

VIRTUAL DECOMPOSITION CONTROL FOR AN UNDERWATER VEHICLE CARRYING A NDOF MANIPULATOR ................................................................................................................................................... 2068 Antonelli, G. ; Cataldi, E.

ROBUST SPARSE UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC CHANNEL ESTIMATION METHOD VIA PROJECTED l1-l2 OPTIMIZATION ............................................................................................................................ 2077 Yongwei Wang ; Yixin Yang ; Lingji Xu ; Xiaohui Bai

INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR OCEAN OBSERVATION SYSTEMS WITH DEVELOPMENT, IMPLEMENTATION, TRAINING AND EDUCATION ............................................................................................ 2082 Sivadas, T. K.

STUDY ON THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS COASTAL DEFENSE AGAINST EXTREME SEA HAZARDS ATTACKS ................................................................................................................................................... 2091 Liu Defu ; Liu Guilin ; Yu Yifa ; Wang Fengqing

A NEW APPROACH FOR ANALYZING THE VIBRO-ACOUSTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF A SEMI-SUBMERGED CYLINDRICAL SHELL........................................................................................................... 2101 Wang, P. ; Li, T. Y. ; Zhu, X. ; Ye, W. B.

AUV BASED FLUSHED AND BURIED OBJECT DETECTION ............................................................................. 2106 Nikolovska, A.

ASSESSMENT OF UNDERWATER RADIATED NOISE, CAVITATION AND FUEL EFFICIENCY FOR A CHEMICAL TANKER - INFLUENCE OF CPP CONTROL ............................................. 2111 Hallander, J. ; Karlsson, R. ; Johansson, A. T.

SMALL-SIZE ROV LAUNCHED FROM UNDERWATER TV SYSTEM FOR OBSERVATION IN SCIENTIFIC DRILLINGS............................................................................................................................................. 2120 Inoue, T. ; Suzuki, H. ; Ishiwata, J. ; Obiki, M. ; Takasu, K.

COMPUTATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PREDICTION OF PROPELLER CAVITATION NOISE............................................................................................................................................................................... 2125 Lafeber, F. H. ; Bosschers, J. ; Van Wijngaarden, E.

ROBUST PASSIVE DIVER DETECTION IN SHALLOW OCEAN......................................................................... 2134 Hari, V. N. ; Chitre, M. ; Yuen Min Too ; Pallayil, V.

O2A: A GENERIC FRAMEWORK FOR ENABLING THE FLOW OF SENSOR OBSERVATIONS TO ARCHIVES AND PUBLICATIONS....................................................................................................................... 2140 Koppe, R. ; Gerchow, P. ; Macario, A. ; Haas, A. ; Schafer-Neth, C. ; Pfeiffenberger, H.

REAL-TIME CONTINUOUS ACTIVE SONAR PROCESSING .............................................................................. 2146 Canepa, G. ; Munafo, A. ; Micheli, M. ; Morlando, L. ; Murphy, S.

DISTRIBUTED UNDERWATER GLIDER NETWORK WITH CONSENSUS KALMAN FILTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD ESTIMATION...................................................................................................... 2152 Grasso, R. ; Braca, P. ; Fortunati, S. ; Gini, F. ; Greco, M. S.

AN INNOVATIVE LOW COST HYDROKINETIC SITE SELECTION TECHNIQUE FOR COLD CLIMATE REGIONS..................................................................................................................................................... 2159 Birjandi, A. H. ; D'Auteuil, S. ; Ridd, C. ; Bibeau, E. L.

OCEANOGRAPHY OUTREACH AND EDUCATION IN INFORMAL AND NON-FORMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS.................................................................................................................................... 2163 Merlino, S. ; Bianucci, M. ; Evangelista, R. ; Fieschi, R. ; Mantovani, C.

ACOUSTIC DETECTION IMPROVEMENT BY PHASE STUDY OF THE ANALYTICAL CROSSCORRELATION SIGNAL ............................................................................................................................................. 2170 Ollivier, B. ; Maussang, F. ; Sintes, C. ; Garello, R. ; Uzan, L.

DYNAMIC PLACEMENT OF A CONSTELLATION OF SURFACE BUOYS FOR ENHANCED UNDERWATER POSITIONING .................................................................................................................................. 2175 Munafo, A. ; Sliwka, J. ; Alves, J.

REAL-TIME CLOCK SYNCHRONISATION IN UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC NETWORKS ........................... 2181 Vermeij, A. ; Munafo, A.

MULTI-SENSOR ISAR TECHNIQUE FOR TRANSLATIONAL MOTION ESTIMATION................................ 2187 Bucciarelli, M. ; Pastina, D. ; Errasti-Alcala, B. ; Braca, P.

“BLUE PATHS” AND SEACLEANER: ENSURING LONG-TERM COMMITMENT OF CITIZENS IN ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ......................................... 2192 Mioni, E. ; Merlino, S. ; Locritani, M. ; Strada, S. ; Giovacchini, A. ; Stroobant, M. ; Traverso, R.

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NATIONAL ENERGY PROGRAM — GAS HYDRATE EXPLORATION IN TAIWAN ...................................................................................................................................... 2201 Chau-Chang Wang ; Hsin-Hung Chen ; Song-Chuen Chen ; Yunshuen Wang

ADVANCED CFD ANALYSES FOR OFFSHORE WIND POWER INSTALLATIONS........................................ 2207 Bertram, V.

A LOW FIDELITY MATHEMATICAL MODEL OF A BIOMIMETIC AUV FOR MULTIVEHICLE COOPERATION.......................................................................................................................................... 2212 McColgan, J. ; McGookin, E. W. ; Mazlan, A. N. A.

AUV FOR DIVER ASSISTANCE AND SAFETY — DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION .................................. 2222 Stilinovic, N. ; Nad, D. ; Miskovic, N.

ASSESSMENT OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC CHANNEL DURING PAYLOAD DATA EXCHANGE WITH HYDRO-ACOUSTIC MODEMS OF THE S2C SERIES ........................................................ 2226 Kebkal, K. G. ; Kebkal, O. G. ; Petroccia, R.

INNOVATIVE ANTENNA ARRAYS FOR NEXT GENERATION RADAR SYSTEM.......................................... 2231 Poli, L. ; Carlin, M. ; Rocca, P. ; Oliveri, G. ; Massa, A.

HIGH-ACCURACY LOW-COST RTK-GPS FOR AN UNMANNNED SURFACE VEHICLE............................. 2236 Matias, B. ; Oliveira, H. ; Almeida, J. ; Dias, A. ; Ferreira, H. ; Martins, A. ; Silva, E.

A MODELING STUDY ON RESIDENCE TIME IN THE YOUNGSAN RIVER ESTUARY, KOREA................ 2240 Chang-Woo Cho ; Yong-Sik Song

MEASUREMENTS AND ANALYSIS OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC NOISE OF FISHING VESSELS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 2245 Hovem, J. M. ; Vagsholm, R. ; Sorheim, H. ; Haukebo, B.

THE IMPACT OF SEA STATE ON HF SURFACE-WAVE RADAR SHIP DETECTION AND TRACKING PERFORMANCES................................................................................................................................... 2251 Maresca, S. ; Braca, P. ; Grasso, R. ; Horstmann, J.

METOC-DRIVEN VESSEL INTERDICTION SYSTEM (MVIS): SUPPORTING DECISION MAKING IN COMMAND AND CONTROL (C2) SYSTEMS ................................................................................... 2256 Loeches, J. ; Vicen-Bueno, R. ; Mentaschi, L.

MARINE LIFE OBSERVATION USING CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHMS ON OCEAN SURFACE PHOTOGRAPHS......................................................................................................................................... 2262 Maussang, F. ; Guelton, L. ; Garello, R. ; Chevallier, A.

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (EIA) OF WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER (WEC) ................... 2266 Viola, A. ; Franzitta, V. ; Curto, D. ; Di Dio, V. ; Milone, D. ; Rodono, G.

UTILIZATION OF VESSEL AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM (AIS) TO ESTIMATE THE EMISSION OF AIR POLLUTANT FROM MERCHANT VESSELS IN A PORT AREA ............................ 2270 Ta-Kang Liu ; Haw-Yang Sheu ; Yen-Ting Chen

A COMPARISON BETWEEN EKF-BASED AND UKF-BASED NAVIGATION ALGORITHMS FOR AUVS LOCALIZATION....................................................................................................................................... 2275 Allotta, B. ; Chisci, L. ; Costanzi, R. ; Fanelli, F. ; Fantacci, C. ; Meli, E. ; Ridolfi, A. ; Caiti, A. ; Di Corato, F. ; Fenucci, D.

FIRST SEA TRIALS OF HROV THE NEW HYBRID VEHICLE DEVELOPED BY IFREMER ........................ 2280 Brignone, L. ; Raugel, E. ; Opderbecke, J. ; Rigaud, V. ; Piasco, R. ; Ragot, S.

COASTAL FOG DETECTION USING VISUAL SENSING...................................................................................... 2287 Dian Zhang ; Sullivan, T. ; O'Connor, N. E. ; Gillespie, R. ; Regan, F.

OBSERVABILITY ANALYSIS FOR SINGLE RANGE LOCALIZATION ............................................................ 2292 Arrichiello, F. ; De Palma, D. ; Indiveri, G. ; Parlangeli, G.

UNDERWATER COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AT CMRE .................................. 2302 Alves, J. ; Lepage, K. ; Guerrini, P. ; Potter, J. ; Zappa, G. ; Furfaro, T. ; Munafo, A. ; Vermeij, A.

LINEAR SLIDING WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER ................................................................................................ 2309 Chen, H. M. ; Delbalzo, D. R.

COGNITIVE AUTONOMOUS DIVING BUDDY (CADDY): AUV DESIGN REQUIREMENTS FOR DIVERS SAFETY ........................................................................................................................................................... 2315 Egi, S. M. ; Balestra, C. ; Pieri, M. ; Cialoni, D. ; Thomas, G. ; Marroni, A.

THE WIDELY SCALABLE MOBILE UNDERWATER SONAR TECHNOLOGY (WIMUST) PROJECT: AN OVERVIEW ......................................................................................................................................... 2320 Al-Khatib, H. ; Antonelli, G. ; Caffaz, A. ; Caiti, A. ; Casalino, G. ; Bielic De Jong, I. ; Duarte, H. ; Indiveri, G. ; Jesus, S. ; Kebkal, K. ; Pascoal, A. ; Polani, D.

A HYBRID FVTD-PO APPROACH FOR THE CHARACTERIZATION OF ANTENNAS ON LARGE PLATFORMS IN NAVAL APPLICATIONS................................................................................................ 2325 Cerruti, M. ; Pastorino, M. ; Randazzo, A.

“BREAKING THE SURFACE” — INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELD-TRAINING FOR EXPERTS, END-USERS AND STUDENTS........................................................................................................ 2330 Vukic, Z. ; Miskovic, N. ; Vasilijevic, A.

DEXROV: ENABLING EFFECTIVE DEXTEROUS ROV OPERATIONS IN PRESENCE OF COMMUNICATION LATENCY .................................................................................................................................. 2334 Gancet, J. ; Urbina, D. ; Letier, P. ; Ilzkovitz, M. ; Weiss, P. ; Gauch, F. ; Chemisky, B. ; Antonelli, G. ; Casalino, G. ; Indiveri, G. ; Birk, A. ; Pfingsthorn, M. F. ; Calinon, S. ; Turetta, A. ; Walen, C. ; Guilpain, L.

HEAT TRANSFER CHARACTERISTIC OF A HYDROTHERMAL ENERGY CONVERTER.......................... 2340 Yu Xie ; Shi-Jun Wu ; Can-Jun Yang ; Shuang-Shuang Fan

VESSELS TRAFFIC ESTIMATION THROUGH IMAGE PROCESSING APPLIED TO ACQUISITIONS BY HYDROPHONES ....................................................................................................................... 2345 Petroni, A. ; Biagi, M. ; Colonnese, S. ; Cusani, R. ; Scarano, G.

NEMO: AN ARCHITECTURE FOR SOFTWARE COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH IN THE MARITIME DOMAIN ................................................................................................................................................... 2349 Vermeij, A. ; Furfaro, T. C. ; Alves, J.

PROPERTIES OF CIRCULAR SPARSE ARRAYS FOR UNDERWATER, BROADBAND, HIGH FREQUENCY SOURCE LOCALIZATION ................................................................................................................ 2355 Vettori, G. ; Ussi, P.

INTEGRATING EXPERT SYSTEM CLIPS INTO DUNE FOR AUV CONTROL ................................................ 2364 Teubler, T. ; Liang Shuang ; Hellbruck, H.

COOPERATIVE FORMATION CONTROL IN THE SCOPE OF THE EC MORPH PROJECT: THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS .................................................................................................................................. 2370 Caldeira Abreu, P. ; Bayat, M. ; Botelho, J. ; Gois, P. ; Gomes, J. ; Pascoal, A. ; Ribeiro, J. ; Ribeiro, M. ; Rufino, M. ; Sebastiao, L. ; Silva, H.

INDIAN NATIONAL STUDENT AUV COMPETITION: A SUCCESS STORY .................................................... 2377 Atmanand, M. A. ; Venkatesan, R. ; Sundar, R. ; Kadiyam, J.

MULTI-PURPOSE OFFSHORE PLATFORMS ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING, SAFETY AND SECURITY, A JOINT STRATEGY FROM THE FP7 TROPOS, NEXOS AND PERSEUS PROJECTS ...................................................................................................................................................................... 2383 Delory, E. ; Quevedo, E. ; Alcaraz Real-Arce, D. ; Barrera, C. ; Hernandez, J. ; Llinas, O. ; Lockhart, T. ; Gadel, M.

COOPERATION BETWEEN AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE MANIPULATIONS SYSTEMS WITH MINIMAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE .................................................................................. 2387 Simetti, E. ; Casalino, G. ; Manerikar, N. ; Sperinde, A. ; Torelli, S. ; Wanderlingh, F.

DESIGN OF A SOFTWARE STRUCTURE AND A MISSION HANDLER FOR COOPERATIVE MARINE ROBOTS ......................................................................................................................................................... 2393 Eckstein, S. ; Glotzbach, T. ; Ament, C.

EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS OF DELAY-TOLERANT NETWORKING IN UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC CHANNEL USING S2C MODEMS WITH EMBEDDED SANDBOX ON-BOARD .......................... 2399 Kebkal, V. ; Kebkal, K. ; Kebkal, O. ; Komar, M.

UNDERWATER HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MAPPING AND MONITORING OF SEABED HABITATS ................................................................................................................... 2405 Tegdan, J. ; Ekehaug, S. ; Hansen, I. M. ; Sandvik Aas, L. M. ; Steen, K. J. ; Pettersen, R. ; Beuchel, F. ; Camus, L.

GUARD1: AN AUTONOMOUS SYSTEM FOR GELATINOUS ZOOPLANKTON IMAGE-BASED RECOGNITION.............................................................................................................................................................. 2411 Marini, S. ; Corgnati, L. ; Mazzei, L. ; Ottaviano, E. ; Isoppo, B. ; Aliani, S. ; Conversi, A. ; Griffa, A.

RANGE, VELOCITY AND IMMERSION ESTIMATION OF A MOVING TARGET IN A WATERFILLED TANK WITH AN ACTIVE SONAR SYSTEM............................................................................................. 2418 Mours, A. ; Mars, J. I. ; Ioana, C. ; Josso, N. F. ; Doisy, Y. ; Roux, P.

CONTROL SYSTEM FOR LONG-RANGE SURVEY HYBRID-DRIVEN UNDERWATER GLIDER ........................................................................................................................................................................... 2424 Zhier Chen ; Jiancheng Yu ; Aiqun Zhang ; Sanming Song

LOCALIZATION OF UNDERWATER TONE NOISE SOURCES BY A SMALL APERTURE CIRCULAR ARRAY ...................................................................................................................................................... 2430 Lingji Xu ; Yixin Yang ; Yongwei Wang ; Hu Yang

THE DEBUT OF AEOLUS, THE AUTONOMOUS MODEL SAILBOAT OF ETH ZURICH.............................. 2434 Tranzatto, M. ; Liniger, A. ; Grammatico, S. ; Landi, A.

SEABED CLASSIFICATION USING A SINGLE BEAM ECHOSOUNDER .......................................................... 2440 Ferretti, R. ; Fumagalli, E. ; Caccia, M. ; Bruzzone, G.

GESTURE-BASED LANGUAGE FOR DIVER-ROBOT UNDERWATER INTERACTION ................................ 2445 Chiarella, D. ; Bibuli, M. ; Bruzzone, G. ; Caccia, M. ; Ranieri, A. ; Zereik, E. ; Marconi, L. ; Cutugno, P.

COOPERATIVE CONTROL AND NAVIGATION IN THE SCOPE OF THE EC CADDY PROJECT ........................................................................................................................................................................ 2454 Abreu, P. ; Bayat, M. ; Botelho, J. ; Gois, P. ; Pascoal, A. ; Ribeiro, J. ; Ribeiro, M. ; Rufino, M. ; Sebastiao, L. ; Silva, H.

BEHAVIOUR ANALYSIS OF DEEP OCEAN WATER DISCHARGED IN A SMALL PORT ............................ 2459 Tabeta, S. ; Kato, T. ; Arii, Y. ; Iseki, K. ; Kurahashi, M. ; Ouchi, K. ; Shibuya, M.

OPTICAL MAPPING WITH THE ARIANE HROV AT IFREMER: THE MATISSE PROCESSING TOOL ............................................................................................................................................................................... 2464 Arnaubec, A. ; Opderbecke, J. ; Allais, A.-G. ; Brignone, L.

THE MORPH PROJECT: ACTUAL RESULTS ......................................................................................................... 2470 Kalwa, J. ; Carreiro-Silva, M. ; Fontes, J. ; Brignone, L. ; Ridao, P. ; Birk, A. ; Glotzbach, T. ; Caccia, M. ; Alves, J. ; Pascoal, A.

BIOFOULING PROTECTION BY ELECTRO-CHLORINATION ON OPTICAL WINDOWS FOR OCEANOGRAPHIC SENSORS AND IMAGING DEVICES .................................................................................... 2478 Laurent, D. ; Kada, B. ; Karenn, B. ; Jean-Yves, C. ; Mathieu, D. ; Bertrand, F. ; Celia, G. ; Gerard, G. ; Yves, L. B. ; Michel, P. ; Emmanuel, R.

DESIGN OF AN OBSTACLE DETECTION SYSTEM FOR MARINE AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES ................ 2488 Sorbara, A. ; Odetti, A. ; Bibuli, M. ; Zereik, E. ; Bruzzone, G.

A NOVEL TACTILE SENSOR FOR UNDERWATER APPLICATIONS: LIMITS AND PERSPECTIVES ............................................................................................................................................................. 2496 Muscolo, G. G. ; Cannata, G.

A MULTI-DEPTH SENSORISED MICRO SAMPLING SYSTEM .......................................................................... 2503 Saviozzi, G. ; Buselli, E. ; Stefanini, C. ; Laschi, C. ; Dario, P.

AUV-BASED CHARACTERIZATION OF EMF EMISSIONS FROM SUBMERGED POWER CABLES ........................................................................................................................................................................... 2510 Dhanak, M. ; An, E. ; Coulson, R. ; Frankenfield, J. ; Ravenna, S. ; Pugsley, D. ; Valdes, G. ; Venezia, W.

AUTOMATED MICRO LOOP FLOW REACTOR TECHNOLOGY TO MEASURE NUTRIENTS IN COASTAL WATER: STATE OF THE ART AND FIELD APPLICATION....................................................... 2516 Bodini, S. ; Sanfilippo, L. ; Savino, E. ; Moscetta, P.

SEAMODEM: A LOW-COST UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC MODEM FOR SHALLOW WATER COMMUNICATION ...................................................................................................................................................... 2523 Cario, G. ; Casavola, A. ; Lupia, M. ; Rosace, C.

BEAMFORMING WITH NONSINUSOIDAL SIGNAL FOR GRATING LOBES SUPPRESSION IN UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC IMAGING .................................................................................................................... 2529 Hu Yang ; Hang Chen ; Lingji Xu

A PROCEDURE TO ENSURE A GOOD QUALITY OF SIGNALS RECORDED BY MULTIDISCIPLINARY SEAFLOOR OBSERVATORIES....................................................................................... 2534 Embriaco, D. ; Giovanetti, G. ; De Caro, M. ; Monna, S. ; Marinaro, G. ; Beranzoli, L. ; Favali, P. ; Iafolla, V.

A NONLINEAR COMPLEMENTARY FILTER FOR UNDERWATER NAVIGATION USING INERTIAL MEASUREMENTS..................................................................................................................................... 2539 Di Corato, F. ; Caiti, A. ; Fenucci, D. ; Grechi, S. ; Novi, M. ; Pacini, F. ; Paoli, G.

OPTIMAL AIDED INERTIAL NAVIGATION, AUGMENTED WITH INTER-SENSORS SELFCALIBRATION............................................................................................................................................................... 2545 Di Corato, F. ; Novi, M. ; Pacini, F. ; Paoli, G. ; Caiti, A. ; Fenucci, D. ; Grechi, S.

WHITE SHARK STRIKE ON A LONG-RANGE AUV IN MONTEREY BAY....................................................... 2551 Stanway, M. J. ; Kieft, B. ; Hoover, T. ; Hobson, B. ; Klimov, D. ; Erickson, J. ; Raanan, B. Y. ; Ebert, D. A. ; Bellingham, J.

PASSIVE SYNTHETIC APERTURE ARRAY TO IMPROVE NOISE MAPPING OF A MOVING SHIP.................................................................................................................................................................................. 2558 Oudompheng, B. ; Nicolas, B. ; Lamotte, L.

UNDERWATER VEHICLES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN COASTAL AREAS.................... 2564 Ludvigsen, M. ; Thorsnes, T. ; Hansen, R. E. ; Sorensen, A. J. ; Johnsen, G. ; Lagstad, P. A. ; Odegard, O. ; Candeloro, M. ; Nornes, S. M. ; Malmquist, C.

DEAIS PROJECT: DETECTION OF AIS SPOOFING AND RESULTING RISKS ............................................... 2570 Ray, C. ; Iphar, C. ; Napoli, A. ; Gallen, R. ; Bouju, A.

RELATIONSHIPS AMONG VERNIER-METHOD AND OTHER DIRECTION-OF-ARRIVAL ESTIMATORS................................................................................................................................................................. 2576 Sintes, C. ; Foote, K. G. ; Llort-Pujol, G.

AN OCEAN CURRENT TURBINE SYSTEM WITH INDUCTION GENERATOR AND POWER ELECTRONIC CONTROL ........................................................................................................................................... 2582 Xiros, N. I. ; Vanzwieten, J. H. ; Sultan, C. ; Tzelepis, V.

PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION OF THE ALTERNATING LANDMARK NAVIGATION BY MULTIPLE AUVS THROUGH SEA EXPERIMENTS.............................................................................................. 2592 Matsuda, T. ; Maki, T. ; Sato, Y. ; Sakamaki, T.

DATA ANALYSIS OF SIMULATED HYDROFOIL OSCILLATIONS IN A STEADY FLOW FIELD USING INTELLIGENT HIGHER-ORDER STATISTICAL PROCESSING.............................................. 2601 Belibassakis, K. A. ; Politis, G. K. ; Xiros, N. I. ; Tsarsitalidis, V. ; Aktosun, E.

PERFORMANCE OF MICRO-MODEM PSK SIGNALING WITH A MOBILE TRANSMITTER DURING THE 2010 MACE EXPERIMENT................................................................................................................ 2610 Freitag, L. ; Singh, S.

SECFUN: SECURITY FRAMEWORK FOR UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC SENSOR NETWORKS.................. 2617 Ateniese, G. ; Capossele, A. ; Gjanci, P. ; Petrioli, C. ; Spaccini, D.

NUMERICAL MODELLING OF CONTROL STRATEGIES AND ACCUMULATOR EFFECT OF A HYDRAULIC POWER TAKE-OFF SYSTEM ........................................................................................................ 2626 Verbrugghe, T. ; Kortenhaus, A. ; De Rouck, J.

A CRITICAL SURVEY ON MARSUPIAL ROBOTIC TEAMS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING OF WATER BODIES ......................................................................................................................... 2636 Marques, F. ; Lourenco, A. ; Mendonca, R. ; Pinto, E. ; Rodrigues, P. ; Santana, P. ; Barata, J.

NEURAL NETWORKS FOR THE LOCALIZATION OF BIOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE AT NEUTRINO DEEP SEA TELESCOPE................................................................................................. 2642 Houegnigan, L. ; Van Der Schaar, M. ; Pla Caro, P. ; Solsona Berga, A. ; Sole Carbonell, M. ; Andre, M.

SPARSE CHANNEL ESTIMATION AND EQUALIZATION FOR UNDERWATER FILTERED MULTITONE .................................................................................................................................................................. 2652 Silva, L. ; Gomes, J.

FIRST IN-FIELD EXPERIMENTS WITH A “BILINGUAL” UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC MODEM SUPPORTING THE JANUS STANDARD .................................................................................................. 2660 Petroccia, R. ; Cario, G. ; Lupia, M. ; Djapic, V. ; Petrioli, C.

SEAPERCH: HOW A START-UP HANDS-ON ROBOTICS ACTIVITY GREW INTO A NATIONAL PROGRAM................................................................................................................................................ 2667 Nelson, S. G. ; Cooper, K. B. ; Djapic, V.

WAKE MEASUREMENT BEHIND A LOADED VERTICAL AXIS HYDROKINETIC TURBINE IN FIELD TEST .............................................................................................................................................................. 2670 Birjandi, A. H. ; Shahsavarifard, M. ; Hamta, A. ; Bibeau, E. L. ; Neufeld, D.

TOWARDS REAL-TIME QUANTIFICATION OF SEAWATER COMPOSITION USING LASERINDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY............................................................................................................ 2674 Sato, T. ; Thornton, B. ; Takahashi, T. ; Sakka, T. ; Ohki, T. ; Ohki, K.

UNDERWATER IMAGE STITCHING BASED ON SIFT AND WAVELET FUSION .......................................... 2681 Meimei Chen ; Rui Nian ; Bo He ; Shuqi Qiu ; Xuefei Liu ; Tianhong Yan

IOOS-CARICOOS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF A TROPICAL COASTAL OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEM .................................................................................................................................................. 2685 Morell, J. M. ; Canals, M. F. ; Capella, J. E. ; Aponte, L. D. ; Corredor, J. E. ; Watlington, R. ; Garcia, C.

COMPARISON OF OFDM AND SINGLE-CARRIER SCHEMES FOR DOPPLER TOLERANT ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS .............................................................................................................................. 2689 Arikan, T. ; Riedl, T. ; Singer, A. ; Younce, J.

SOUND TRANSMISSION LOSS CORRECTION DUE TO HYDROPHONE FLUCTUATION WITH PROPAGATION MODEL ................................................................................................................................. 2696 Yang Wu ; Hangfang Zhao ; Wen Xu

MOTION CONTROL OF DOCKING AUV IN CURRENTS..................................................................................... 2702 Shuangshuang Fan ; Yuanxin Xu ; Bo Li ; Chenzhan Liu ; Wen Xu

A UNIFIED FRAMEWORK FOR MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT AND BISTATIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR PROCESSING ................................................................................................... 2709 Wen Xu ; Feng Sun ; Shuangshuang Fan ; Xiang Pan

A RESEARCH COORDINATION NETWORK FOR OCEAN OBSERVATIONS ................................................. 2713 Pearlman, J. ; Chavez, F. ; Wiliams, A. ; Houtman, B. ; Simmons, S.

ENABLING PERSISTENT AUTONOMY FOR UNDERWATER GLIDERS THROUGH TERRAIN BASED NAVIGATION................................................................................................................................................... 2717 Stuntz, A. ; Liebel, D. ; Smith, R. N.

DESIGN ANALYSIS OF A SELF STABILIZING UNDERWATER SUB-SURFACE INSPECTION ROBOT USING HYDRODYNAMIC GROUND EFFECT......................................................................................... 2727 Bhattacharyya, S. ; Asada, H. H. ; Triantafyllou, M. S.

REMOTE PIPELINE INTEGRITY ASSESSMENT AND FLOW ASSURANCE USING WIDEBAND SONAR TECHNOLOGY ........................................................................................................................ 2734 Pailhas, Y. ; Brown, K. ; Valeyrie, N. ; Capus, C.

EVALUATION OF POSITION ESTIMATION OF AUV TRI-TON 2 IN REAL SEA EXPERIMENTS.............................................................................................................................................................. 2738 Sato, Y. ; Maki, T. ; Mizushima, H. ; Matsuda, T. ; Sakamaki, T.

ENHANCING AUTONOMY: FAULT DETECTION, IDENTIFICATION AND OPTIMAL REACTION FOR OVER — ACTUATED AUVS ........................................................................................................ 2744 Caiti, A. ; Di Corato, F. ; Fabiani, F. ; Fenucci, D. ; Grechi, S. ; Pacini, F.

UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC MODEM WITH STREAMING VIDEO CAPABILITIES ...................................... 2750 Martins, M. S. ; Cabral, J. ; Lopes, G. ; Ribeiro, F.

AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC EXPLORATION OF CORAL REEFS USING A VISUAL ATTENTION-DRIVEN STRATEGY FOR DETECTING AND TRACKING REGIONS OF INTEREST....................................................................................................................................................................... 2757 Maldonado-Ramirez, A. ; Abril Torres-Mendez, L.

3D-BELIEF SPACE PLANNING FOR UNDERWATER MOBILE GRASPING .................................................... 2762 Zereik, E. ; Gagliardi, F. ; Bibuli, M. ; Bruzzone, G. ; Caccia, M. ; Bonsignorio, F.

DEEPRULER: DESIGN, EXECUTE AND EVALUATE PATH-FOLLOWING FOR ROBOTIC UNMANNED VEHICLES AND EXPERIMENT REPEATABILITY ....................................................................... 2768 Sorbara, A. ; Ranieri, A. ; Zereik, E. ; Bibuli, M. ; Bruzzone, G. ; Caccia, M.

THE ITALIAN CONTRIBUTION TO THE EMSO LIGURIAN SEA NODE: THE ROLE OF THE LIGURIA CLUSTER OF MARINE TECHNOLOGIES............................................................................................. 2775 Grossi, L. ; Martinelli, A. ; Marini, D. ; Stroobant, M. ; Lescio, D. ; Beranzoli, L. ; Favali, P. ; Carmisciano, C.

EXPERIMENTS IN MULTI-VEHICLE OPERATIONS: THE RAPID ENVIRONMENTAL PICTURE ATLANTIC EXERCISE 2014 ..................................................................................................................... 2780 Borges De Sousa, J. ; Pereira, J. ; Alves, J. ; Galocha, M. ; Pereira, B. ; Lourenco, C.

NEXT-GENERATION TECHNOLOGY FOR OCEAN RESOURCES EXPLORATION (ZIPANGUIN-THE-OCEAN) PROJECT IN JAPAN ..................................................................................................................... 2787 Urabe, T. ; Tsujimoto, T. ; Ura, T. ; Hotta, H.

A METHOD FOR EVALUATING THE SHIP EQUILIBRIUM POINT USING 3D MESHES DEVELOPED FOR EMBEDDED DEVICE................................................................................................................. 2792 Calabrese, F. ; Cataldo, M. ; De Pascalis, A. ; Mancarella, L. ; Ostuni, L. ; Zizzari, A. A.

SEACONDITIONS: PRESENT AND FUTURE SEA CONDITIONS FOR SAFER NAVIGATION (WWW.SEA-CONDITIONS.COM) .............................................................................................................................. 2798 Lecci, R. ; Coppini, G. ; Creti, S. ; Turrisi, G. ; D'Anca, A. ; Palazzo, C. ; Aloisio, G. ; Fiore, S. ; Bonaduce, A. ; Mannarini, G. ; Kumkar, Y. ; Ciliberti, S. A. ; Federico, I. ; Agostini, P. ; Bonarelli, R. ; Martinelli, S. ; Marra, P. ; Scalas, M. ; Tedesco, L. ; Rollo, D. ; Cavallo, A. ; Tumolo, A. ; Monacizzo, T. ; Spagnulo, M. ; Pinardi, N. ; Fazioli, L. ; Olita, A. ; Cucco, A. ; Sorgente, R. ; Tonani, M. ; Drudi, M.

EFFICIENT SEAFLOOR CLASSIFICATION AND CABLE ROUTE DESIGN USING AN AUV....................... 2804 Sheng-Wei Huang ; Chen, E. ; Jen-Hwa Guo

RECENT R&D ACTIVITIES ON UNDERWATER VEHICLES IN KOREA FOR OCEAN EXPLORATION AND OBSERVATION...................................................................................................................... 2812 Pan-Mook Lee ; Bong-Huan Jun ; Phil-Yeob Lee ; Woong-Seo Kim ; Son-Cheol Yu

THE WORLD ROBOTIC SAILING CHAMPIONSHIP, A COMPETITION TO STIMULATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AUTONOMOUS SAILBOATS................................................................................................ 2820 Le Bars, F. ; Jaulin, L.

EVINS: A FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPMENT OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC SENSOR NETWORKS AND POSITIONING SYSTEMS........................................................................................................... 2825 Kebkal, O. ; Kebkal, V. ; Kebkal, K.

NOISE MITIGATION WITH BALLOON ARRAYS DURING PILE DRIVING ACTIVITIES IN THE UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENT ..................................................................................................................... 2831 Yu-Hang Wu ; Tien-Siang Ling ; Wei-Shien Hwang ; Chi-Fang Chen

ESTABLISHMENT OF A ROBUST UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC REPEATER WITH APPLICATIONS IN UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC TRANSMISSION AND DETECTION .................................. 2835 Chi-Fang Chen ; Kai-Jen Hsiao ; Sheng-Yu Chuang ; Chia-Lu Hu

FULL SCALE MEASUREMENT OF UNDERWATER RADIATED NOISE FROM A COASTAL TANKER .......................................................................................................................................................................... 2840 Johansson, A. T. ; Hallander, J. ; Karlsson, R. ; Langstrom, A. ; Turesson, M.

IMPROVED CAPABILITY, RELIABILITY, AND PRODUCTIVITY FOR UNDERWATER GEOPHYSICAL MAPPING OF UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE ............................................................................... 2850 Foley, J. ; Jennings, D. ; Fonda, R. ; Jacobson, J. ; Miele, M.

THE IEEE OCEANIC ENGINEERING SOCIETY (OES) AND PROMOTION OF OCEANIC STEM SPORT COMPETITIONS ................................................................................................................................. 2856 Collins, J. S.

INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION IN CONGESTED UNDERSEA ENVIRONMENTS........................................ 2859 McGee, J. ; Catipovic, J. ; Schoenecker, S. ; Swaszek, P.

UNDERSEA REMOTE SENSING WITH ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATIONS WAVEFORMS ........................... 2867 Meyer, M. G. ; Rotker, N. A.

DEVELOPING A MODEL FOR HORIZONTAL ARRAY COHERENCE IN THE PRESENCE OF RANDOM LINEAR INTERNAL WAVES ................................................................................................................... 2873 Rouseff, D. ; Lunkov, A. A.

AUTONOMOUS NETWORKED ANTI-SUBMARINE WARFARE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AT CMRE ........................................................................................................................................ 2877 Lepage, K. D. ; Goldhahn, R. ; Alves, J. ; Strode, C. ; Braca, P. ; Ferri, G. ; Munafo, A. ; Oddone, M. ; Sildam, J. ; Baralli, F. ; Biagini, S. ; Canepa, G. ; Colombo, M. ; Grandi, V. ; Grenon, G. ; Mazzi, M. ; Micheli, M. ; Parisi, G. ; Saia, P. ; Vermeij, A. ; Zappa, G.

USING MULTIBEAM ECHOSOUNDER DATAFOR A GIS-READY SEAFLOOR CHARACTERIZATION IN THE ADRIATIC SEA .................................................................................................... 2883 Tassetti, A. N. ; Malaspina, S. ; Punzo, E. ; Fabi, G. ; Mancini, A. Author Index