Browsing Graduate Theses by Subject "/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering."
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Analysis of 2-axis pencil beam sonar microbathymetric measurements of mine burial at the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)The changing state of warfare has driven the US Navy's area of operations closer to shore into littoral coastal waters. Mine Warfare has been proven as an extremely effective means of battlespace control in these waters. ... -
Design considerations for engineering Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have been established as a viable tool for Oceanographic Sciences. Being untethered and independent, AUVs fill the gap in Ocean Exploration left by the existing manned submersible and ... -
Evaluation of transport relative to the tidal mixing front on Southern Georges Bank
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)As part of Phase III of the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank program, drogued drifters and dye tracer were released into the pycnocline on the southern flank of Georges Bank to measure advective and diffusive transport relative ... -
Horizontal linear array sensor localization and preliminary coherence measurements from the 2001 ASIAEX South China Sea experiment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This thesis examines data collected in the South China Sea (SCS) component of the 2001 Asian Seas International Acoustic Experiment (ASIAEX), where a fixed Horizontal Linear Array (HLA) was deployed to study transverse ... -
Investigations of scalar transfer coefficients in fog during the Coupled Boundary Layers and Air Sea Transfer experiment : a case study
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)The uncertainty in the determination of the momentum and scalar fluxes remains one of the main obstacles to accurate numerical forecasts in low to moderate wind conditions. For example, latent heat fluxes computed from ... -
Lossy compression and real-time geovisualization for ultra-low bandwidth telemetry from untethered underwater vehicles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Oceanographic applications of robotics are as varied as the undersea environment itself. As underwater robotics moves toward the study of dynamic processes with multiple vehicles, there is an increasing need to distill ... -
Single Transponder Range Only Navigation Geometry (STRONG) applied to REMUS autonomous under water vehicles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)A detailed study was conducted to prove the concept of an iterative approach to single transponder navigation for REMUS Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). Although the concept of navigation with one acoustic beacon is ... -
Variable buoyancy system metric
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Over the past 20 years, underwater vehicle technology has undergone drastic improvements, and vehicles are quickly gaining popularity as a tool for numerous oceanographic tasks. Systems used on the vehicle to alter buoyancy, ... -
Verification of numerical models for hydrothermal plume water through field measurements at TAG
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Hydrothermal vents discharge superheated, mineral rich water into our oceans, thereby providing a habitat for exotic chemosynthetic biological communities. Hydrothermal fluids are convected upwards until they cool and reach ...
