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Mapping Coastal Elevations and Water Depths Using Unmanned Vehicles ...
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The use of commercially available unmanned vehicles has become increasingly common in coastal areas. To encourage their increased use at NOAA ...
NOAA Evaluates Capabilities of Unmanned Surface Vehicle
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This week, the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) is partnering with the Office of Coast Survey, the Office of Marine and Aviation ...
Guidelines for Bathymetric Mapping and Orthoimage Generation using sUAS ...
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The absence of accurate, contemporary, or detailed bathymetric data in nearshore coastal waters impedes coastal research, conservation, disaster ...
Guidelines Published for Mapping Nearshore Coastal Seafloor Using ...
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Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS)—also known as drones—outfitted with cameras and coupled with advanced photogrammetry techniques, such as ...
NCCOS | About the Data - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Imagery of the seafloor was collected using remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and drop camera systems due to the range of depths involved (20-900m) ...
NCCOS Tests Drones to Map Coastline and Nearshore Waters
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The researchers collected thousands of water depth soundings using an autonomous surface vehicle (ASV). This information will be used to validate the ...
Scientists Test Improved Laser Scanning and Imaging Capabilities for ...
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Recently, NCCOS was joined by partners in tests to evaluate the performance of a new laser/imaging sensor in a REMUS 600 Autonomous Underwater Vehicle ...
NOAA Evaluates Using Drones to Map Coastline and Nearshore Waters
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Drones, also known as small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS), tested in St Croix: DJI S900 (left), 3DR Solo (middle), and DJI Mavic (right). Credit ...
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Collects Imagery to Evaluate Coral ...
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The team recently completed the first missions using new micro-sized autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). These AUVs are four-feet long ...
Enhancing Third-generation Environmental Sample Processor for HAB Toxin ...
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Monitoring the increase in cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (HABs) in nearshore environments is challenging. Recent development of a long-range ...
Characterization of mesophotic coral/sponge habitats and fish ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/characterization-mesophotic-coralsponge-habitats-fish-assemblages-regions-pulley-ridge-tortugas-rov-dives-rv-walton-smith-cruises-2012-2015/
This report summarizes the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) surveys during four cruises from 2012 to 2015 which characterizes the mesophotic coral reef ...
Uncrewed Systems for Mapping - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal ...
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Uncrewed Systems for Mapping Uncrewed systems, or more commonly UxS, encompass a wide array of vehicle types—aerial, terrestrial, or marine (surface ...
Using Unoccupied Aerial Systems to Collect Dolphin Health Data
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Using the UAS “SnotBot” with petri dishes attached to capture the blow exhalations of dolphins. Credit: NOAA. Tamanend’s bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops ...
Researchers Develop Drone-based System to Detect Marine Debris ...
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Unmanned Aerial Systems, or drones, offer this capability. Polarized light reflected from human-made objects often differs from natural objects, such ...
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science - NCCOS
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Mapping Coastal Elevations and Water Depths Using Unmanned Vehicles (Drones) Coral Monitoring and Assessment. Monitoring coral reef ecosystems ...
Successful Preliminary UAS Flights Collect Dolphin-blow Microbiome ...
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Collecting samples from the blow, or exhalations, of large whales using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), i.e. drones, is nothing new. However ...
Characterizing Spatial Distributions of Deep-sea Corals and ...
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What We Did This study had three main components: We compiled a database of presence-absence observations of deep-sea corals and chemosynthetic ...
Toxic Algal Blooms and Nutrients from Sewage - NCCOS Coastal Science ...
coastalscience.noaa.gov/news/high-tech-armada-links-toxic-algal-blooms-nutrients-sewage-southern-california/
In April 2014, NCCOS-funded scientists deployed two Environmental Sample Processors, two research vessels, five autonomous underwater vehicles, and ...
Spawning Success: Scientists Witness Rare Mesophotic Coral Reproduction ...
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The team collected S. exserta fragments using a remotely operated vehicle during expeditions in the Gulf in 2021 and 2022, then cared for them in ...
Habitat Mapping and Characterization - NCCOS - National Centers for ...
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Habitat Mapping and Characterization Maps that depict and characterize the physical features and arrangement of seafloor habitats are the foundation ...