Efficient and timely data collection in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs) for Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) applications remains a significant challenge due to the inherent limitations of the underwater environment. This paper presen...
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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) play a central role in marine observation, inspection, and monitoring missions, where effective trajectory planning is essential for ensuring safe operation, reliable sensing, and efficient data transfer. In real...
Marine environmental monitoring provides crucial information and support for the exploitation, utilization, and protection of marine resources. With the rapid development of information technology, the development of three-dimensional underwater acou...
In underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs), medium access control (MAC) is an important issue because of its potentially significant effect on the network performance. However, designing a suitable MAC protocol for the UASN is challenging because...
Underwater acoustic channels are characterized by long propagation delay, limited available bandwidth and high energy costs. These unique characteristics bring challenges to design media access control (MAC) protocol for underwater acoustic sensor ne...
Compressed sensing (CS) has become a powerful tool to process data that is correlated in underwater sensor networks (USNs). Based on CS, certain signals can be recovered from a relatively small number of random linear projections. Since the battery-d...
The autonomous underwater glider has attracted enormous interest for underwater activities, especially in long-term and large-scale underwater data collection. In this paper, we focus on the application of gliders gathering data from underwater senso...
Sensory data collection is one of the most important concerns in underwater sensor networks (USNs). Because full connectivity cannot be guaranteed, mobile data gathering with autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) is widely used in sparse three-dimens...
Oceanographic data collection, disaster prevention, aided navigation, critical observation sub-missions, contaminant screening, and seaward scanning are just a few of the submissions that use underwater sensor hubs. Unmanned submerged vehicles (USVs)...
The Underwater Internet of Things (IoUT) shows significant future potential in enabling a smart ocean. Underwater sensor network (UWSN) is a major form of IoUT, but it faces the problem of reliable data collection. To address these issues, this paper...
The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) holds significant promise for developing a smart ocean. In recent years, there has been swift progress in data collection methods using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) within underwater acoustic sensor n...
In this paper, we target solving the data gathering problem in underwater wireless sensor networks. In many underwater applications, it is not quick to retrieve sensed data, which gives us the opportunity to leverage mobile autonomous underwater vehi...
Sensor technology has matured enough to be used in any type of environment. The appearance of new physical sensors has increased the range of environmental parameters for gathering data. Because of the huge amount of unexploited resources in the ocea...
Deploying a multi-hop underwater acoustic sensor network (UASN) in a large area brings about new challenges in reliable data transmissions and survivability of network due to the limited underwater communication range/bandwidth and the limited energy...
The underwater conditions of the coastal ecosystem require careful monitoring to anticipate potential environmental hazards. Moreover, the unique characteristics of the marine underwater environment have presented numerous challenges for the advancem...
Underwater wireless technologies demand to transmit at higher data rate for ocean exploration. Currently, large coverage is achieved by acoustic sensor networks with low data rate, high cost, high latency, high power consumption, and negative impact...
With the advent of the Internet of Underwater Things, smart things are deployed in the ocean space and establish underwater wireless sensor networks for the monitoring of vast and dynamic underwater environments. When events are found to have possibl...
Underwater robotics produces diverse and complex streams of sensor, image, video, and navigational data under challenging environmental conditions, creating obstacles for seamless integration and interpretation. This paper introduces ROVON (Remotely...
To monitor the underwater sound and pressure waves generated by anthropogenic activities such as underwater blasting and pile driving, an autonomous system was designed to record underwater acoustic signals. The underwater sound recording device (USR...
Underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) play a crucial role in subsea operations like marine exploration and environmental monitoring. A major challenge for UWSNs is achieving effective and energy-efficient data collection, particularly in deep-sea mining...
Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have become a popular research topic due to the challenges of underwater communication. The existing mechanisms for collecting data from UWSNs focus on reducing the data redundancy and communication energy...
With the booming development of marine exploration technology, new studies such as the oceanix city, smart coastal city, and underwater smart cities have been proposed, and the Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) has received a lot of attention. Dat...
The motion-control precision of a shallow-sea underwater robot is seriously affected by external disturbances such as wind, waves and ocean currents. Due to the lack of a specialized disturbance-sensor system, the disturbance force and torque cannot...
Most applications of underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) demand reliable data delivery over a longer period in an efficient and timely manner. However, the harsh and unpredictable underwater environment makes routing more challenging as compa...
In underwater sensor networks, nodes are usually sparsely arranged, and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are often used to collect data by moving. However, it is a key problem for AUVs to shorten the path as much as possible to guarantee whole-n...
With the passage of time, the exploitation of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and devices has become more complicated. The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT) is a subset of the IoT in which underwater sensors are used to continually collect data a...
The planet is the most water-rich place because the oceans cover more than 75% of its land area. Because of the unique activities that occur in the depths, we know very little about oceans. Underwater wireless sensors are tools that can continuously...
Sensor placement plays an important role in terrain deformation monitoring systems and has an essential effect on data collection. The difficulty of sensor placement entails obtaining the most adequate and reliable information with the fewest number...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has facilitated services without human intervention for a wide range of applications, including underwater monitoring, where sensors are located at various depths, and data must be transmitted to surface base stations for...
The underwater wireless sensor network (UWSN) is considered a promising technology for collecting valuable data from underwater areas, particularly for aiding military operations and environmental predictions. UWSNs consist of underwater sensor nodes...
Underwater acoustic sensor networks are a promising technology that allow real-time data collection in seas and oceans for a wide variety of applications. Smaller size and weight sensors can be achieved with working frequencies shifted from audio to...
In the last few decades, underwater communication systems have been widely used for the development of navy, military, business, and safety applications, etc. However, in underwater communication systems, there are several challenging issues, such as...
Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) widely used for maritime object detection or for monitoring of oceanic parameters that plays vital role prediction of tsunami to life-cycle of marine species by deploying sensor nodes at random locations. H...
The unique characteristics of underwater environment such as long propagation delay, limited bandwidth, energy-constraint and non-uniform topology are big challenges in designing a routing protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). In...
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs)-assisted mobile data collection in underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) has received significant attention because of their mobility and flexibility. To satisfy the increasing demand of diverse application...
Underwater sensor networks are becoming an important field of research, because of their everyday increasing application scope. Examples of their application areas are environmental and pollution monitoring (mainly oil spills), oceanographic data col...
Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) are critical to a range of applications from oceanographic data collection to submarine surveillance. In these networks, efficient energy management is critical due to the limited power resources of underwa...
The Robotic Vessels as-a-Service (RoboVaaS) project intends to exploit the most advanced communication and marine vehicle technologies to revolutionize shipping and near-shore operations, offering on-demand and cost-effective robotic-aided services....
The monitoring of underwater aquatic habitats and pipeline leakages and disaster prevention are assisted by the construction of an underwater wireless sensor network (UWSN). The deployment of underwater sensors consumes energy and causes delay when t...
The issue of limited energy resources is crucial for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) because these networks operate in remote and harsh environments where access to power sources is limited. Overcoming the energy constraints is necessary...
Adaptive sampling provides an innovative and favorable method of improving the effectiveness of underwater vehicles in collecting data. Adaptive sampling works by controlling an underwater vehicle by using measurements from sensors and states of the...
Underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) have become a hot research topic because of their various aquatic applications. As the underwater sensor nodes are powered by built-in batteries which are difficult to replace, extending the network lifetime is a mo...
This work deals with the installation of two smart in-situ sensors (for underwater radioactivity and underwater sound monitoring) on the Western 1-Mediterranean Moored Multisensor Array (W1-M3A) ocean observing system that is equipped with all approp...
In the past decade, underwater spectral imaging (USI) has shown great potential in underwater exploration for its high spectral and spatial resolution. This proposal presents a stare-type USI system combined with the liquid crystal tunable filter (LC...
Underwater sensor networks play a crucial role in collecting valuable data to monitor offshore aquaculture infrastructures. The number of deployed devices not only impacts the bandwidth for a highly constrained communication environment, but also the...
With the rapid advancement of ocean monitoring technology, the types and quantities of underwater sensors have increased significantly. Traditional single-sensor approaches exhibit limitations in underwater target classification, resulting in low cla...
Underwater sensor networks (UWSN) include a large number of devices and sensors which are positioned in a specific area to carry out monitoring in cooperation with each other as well as data collection. In this paper it has been studied and simulated...
In this article, we present a novel underwater dataset collected from several field trials within the EU FP7 project “Cognitive autonomous diving buddy (CADDY)”, where an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) was used to interact with diver...
Numerous sensors can obtain images or point cloud data on land, however, the rapid attenuation of electromagnetic signals and the lack of light in water have been observed to restrict sensing functions. This study expands the utilization of two- and...
This paper addresses the problem of object recognition from colorless 3D point clouds in underwater environments. It presents a performance comparison of state-of-the-art global descriptors, which are readily available as open source code. The studie...
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