Bio-geochemical processes in the upper water-column driven by physical and biological forcings such as fronts, internal waves, wind-driven upwelling, plumes, blooms and anoxic zones, cover large spatial and temporal scales, from hundreds of Sq km across hours to weeks. To observe and characterize such dynamic ocean phenomena we need multiple platforms across differing levels of synopticity. To enable this, we have leveraged the efforts at LSTS in Porto to work towards building a system of systems, which can be used to control heterogenous robotic assets across space and time. This is ongoing work and builds on our efforts on onboard autonomy and the lab’s dominant strength in networked robotics. This effort has recently moved to include the use of Small Satellites (SmallSat) as space borne single sensor instruments looking at the ocean across multiple orbital planes. This has resulted in starting a SmallSat project based on a strategic roadmap to chart out the build up of such vehicles to augment in-situ observations, across biological (optical) and physical measurements.
Publications
José Pinto and Maria Costa and Renato Mendes and Keila Lima
and Paulo Dias and João Pereira and Manuel Ribeiro
and Renato Campos and Maria Paola Tomasino and
Catarina Magalhães and Francisco L\`opez
Castej\`on and Javier Gilabert and Adriana
M. Santos Ferreira and José C. B. da Silva and
Paulo Relvas and Trent Lukaczyk and Kay Arne
Skarpnes and Emlyn Davies and Alexander Chekalyuk
and Bruno Loureiro and Ian G. Brosnan and Jing Li
and João Borges de Sousa and Kanna Rajan,
Coordinated Robotic Exploration of Dynamic Open Ocean Phenomena,
M. J. Costa and J. Pinto and P. S. Dias and
J. Pereira and K. Lima and M. Ribeiro and
J. B. Sousa and T. Lukaczyk and R. Mendes and
M. P. Tomasino and C. Magalhães and I. Belkin
and F. Lopez-Castejon and J. Gilabert and
K. Skarpnes and M. Ludvigsen and Kanna Rajan and Z. Mirmalek and A. Chekalyuk,
Field Report: Exploring Fronts with Multiple Robots,
Ferreira, António Sérgio and Costa, Maria and Py, Frédéric
and Pinto, José and Silva, Mónica A. and Nimmo-Smith, Alex
and Johansen, Tor Arne and de Sousa, João Borges and Rajan, Kanna,
Advancing multi-vehicle deployments in oceanographic field experiments,
Sousa, Lara L. and López-Castejón, Francisco and Gilabert, Javier and Relvas, Paulo and Couto, Ana and Queiroz, Nuno and Caldas, Renato and Dias, Paulo Sousa and Dias, Hugo and Faria, Margarida and Ferreira, Filipe and Ferreira, António Sérgio and Fortuna, João and Gomes, Ricardo Joel and Loureiro, Bruno and Martins, Ricardo and Madureira, Luis and Neiva, Jorge and Oliveira, Marina and Pereira, João and Pinto, José and Py, Frederic and Queirós, Hugo and Silva, Daniel and Sujit, P. B. and Zolich, Artur and Johansen, Tor Arne and de Sousa, João Borges and Rajan, Kanna,
Integrated Monitoring of Mola mola Behaviour in Space and Time,
J. B. de Sousa and J. Pereira and J. Pinto and Paulo Claro Lourenfo and João Madaleno Galocha and J. Fontes and M. Silva and K. Rajan and T. A. Johansson and J. Alves and A. Munafò and K. Pelekanakis and R. Petroccia and M. Carreiro Silva and M. Incze,
Rapid Environmental Picture Atlantic exercise 2015: A field report,
K. Rajan and J. Gilabert and T.A. Johansen and J. Sousa,
A Case for Ocean Observing SmallSats,
K. Rajan and T.A. Johansen and A. S\oresen and R. Birkeland,
A Roadmap for a SmallSat Program,
André G.C. Guerra and Frederico Francisco and Jaime Villate and Fernando Aguado Agelet and Orfeu Bertolami and Kanna Rajan,
On small satellites for oceanography: A survey,