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Scientists making waves with wireless ocean monitoring

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 18, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The Great Barrier Reef and other sensitive environments could in future be managed with the help of a marine wireless network developed by University of Queensland (UQ)-led research.





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New research suggests changes in underwater data communications

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 14, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An NJIT professor, who has discovered new communication channels in underwater environments and invented a technique to communicate data through these channels, will be honored later this month by the New Jersey Inventors ...


Toward cheap underwater sensor nets

Toward cheap underwater sensor nets

Technology / Engineering

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UC San Diego computer scientists are one step closer to building low cost networks of underwater sensors for real time underwater environmental monitoring. At the IEEE Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop ...


Swedish Agency Develops Underwater Wireless Technology

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created Oct 09, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (20) | comments 0

The Swedish Defense Research Agency, FOI has developed an underwater wireless technology that has been tested for accurately predicting weather conditions, sea pollution and earthquakes. The new technology is a vast improvement ...


Introducing Tassie's underwater robot – 'Searise'

Introducing Tassie's underwater robot – 'Searise'

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 06, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A miniature CSIRO submarine being used to study the health of Tasmania’s waterways has officially been named ‘Searise’.


Biologically inspired sensors can augment sonar, vision system in submarines

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 21, 2007 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

To find prey and avoid being preyed upon, fish rely on a row of specialized sensory organs along the sides of their bodies, called the lateral line. Now, a research team led by Chang Liu at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ...


Flying Underwater, Staying Dry

Flying Underwater, Staying Dry

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created Oct 20, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (21) | comments 5

Rutgers physical oceanographer Scott Glenn and his students are flying a submersible robot glider, the Scarlet Knight, across the Atlantic – very slowly, underwater, and without getting wet.


Robot plumbs Wisconsin lake on way to Antarctica, jovian moon

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 11, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A University of Illinois at Chicago scientist will lead a team testing a robotic probe in a polar-style, under-ice exploration that may have out-of-this world applications. But the team will keep to a venue that's much closer ...


Researchers Develop Flow Sensors Based on Blind Fish Hair Structures

Researchers Develop Flow Sensors Based on Blind Fish Hair Structures

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A blind fish that has evolved a unique technique for sensing motion may inspire a new generation of sensors that perform better than current active sonar.


NASA-funded robotic sub finds bottom of world's deepest sinkhole

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created May 31, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (29) | comments 0

[B]Carnegie Mellon researchers use sonar to map, demystify El Zacatón[/B] A robotic vehicle designed for underwater exploration plunged repeatedly into the depths of Mexico’s mysterious El Zacatón sinkhole in late May, fin ...


NASA mission explores world's deepest sinkhole

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created May 14, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 0

A NASA-funded expedition, including researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, will begin searching for the submerged bottom of Mexico’s El Zacatón sinkhole with a robotic submarine the week of May ...



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