Making Underwater Gliders Useful to Navy Operations

Abstract

The investigators' goal is to develop the capabilities of autonomous underwater gliders to be maintained and piloted at sea for periods of several months and to exploit this capability to address fundamental questions in ocean science.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2008
Accession Number
ADA534069

Entities

People

  • Daniel L. Rudnick
  • Russ E. Davis

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Autonomous Vehicles
  • Diving
  • Diving Equipment
  • Information Operations
  • Internal Waves
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Recovery Vehicles
  • Regions
  • Standards
  • Underwater Gliders
  • Unmanned Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy