Open AccessUnderwater surveillance of Romanian littoral areas using AUVs - Sea trials results
Author(s) -
Radu-Florin Damian
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/878/1/012001
Subject(s) - underwater , littoral zone , sea trial , marine engineering , environmental science , automatic identification system , computer science , remote sensing , real time computing , oceanography , engineering , geography , geology
One of the many military as well as civilian potential applications regarding autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) is detection, localization, tracking and identification (DLTI) of risk factors in littoral areas. Using AUVs in underwater surveillance involves some specific capabilities like underwater data acquisitions, on-board data processing, underwater and surface communication, autonomy aspects and so on. In order for an AUV to be capable of conducting underwater environment surveillance (detection, monitoring) in littoral areas like harbors, coast objectives, ship anchorage areas, mandatory pass points and also to provide warnings about the presence of underwater and surface dangers in the interest areas, it must be first subject to sea trials. This paper presents the theoretical and experimental approaches and results for the surveillance of Romanian Littoral Areas using an AUV.