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Resolution and coverage - The best of both worlds in the BioCam 3D Visual Mapping Project
Geraint West, Adrian Bodenmann, Darryl Newborough & Blair Thornton, 2020, Journal of Ocean Technology, 15(3), 67-76
Type: article
Identification of microplastics in a large water volume by integrated holography and Raman spectroscopy
Takahashi Takahashi, Zonghua Liu, Thangeval Thevar, Nicholas Burns, Sumeet Mahajan, Dhugal Lindsay, John Watson & Blair Thornton, 2020, Applied Optics, 59(17), 5073-5078
DOI: 10.1364/AO.393643
Type: article
Deep-sea robotic survey and data processing methods for regional-scale estimation of manganese crust distribution
Umesh Neettiyah, Blair Thornton, Mehul Sangekar, Yuya Nishida, Kazuo Ishii, Adrian Bodenmann, Takumi Sato, Tamaki Ura & Akira Asada, 2020, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 46(1), 102-114
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2020.2978967
Type: article
Underwater vehicle, expansion recovery system for underwater vehicle, and expansion recovery method for underwater vehicle
Kenji Nagahashi, Hiroyuki Fukushima, Hitoshi Kagami, Takeshi Oki, Takeshi Nakatani, Yuya Nishida, Blair Thornton, Kotohiro Masuda & Kazunori Nagano, 2020
Type: patent
Application of SeaXerocks on habitat mapping for the deep-sea megabenthos around cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts in Arnold Guyot of the northwestern Pacific - from the perspective of "whale's eye view"
A. Iguchi, R. Miwa, T. Koike, M. Ohhara, H. Sugishima, H. Yokooka, T. Fukuhara, M. Suzumura, A. Tsukasaki, Y. Tanaka, N. Iwasaki, B. Thornton, T. Fujii, S. Kato, Y. Igarashi, N. Okamoto & A. Suzuki, 2019
Type: conference
Unmanned diving machine, acoustic communication system, and program
Akihiko Nishitani, Junichi Kojima, Takeshi Nakatani, Takeshi Oki, Yuya Nishida & Blair Thornton, 2019
Type: patent
Deploying device for underwater vessel, towing device, deploying system for underwater vessel, and deploying method for underwater vessel
Kenji Nagahashi, Hiroyuki Fukushima, Hitoshi Kagami, Takeshi Oki, Takeshi Nakatani, Yuya Nishida, Blair Thornton, Kotohiro Masuda & Kazunori Nagano, 2019
Type: patent