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Recovery device for underwater vessel, towing device, recovery system for underwater vessel, and recovery 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
Development of elemental technologies for seafloor mineral processing of seafloor massive sulfides
Blair Thornton, Yasuharu Nakajima, Joji Yamamoto, Tomoko Takahashi, Yuta Yamabe, Gjergj Dodbiba & Toyohisa Fujita, 2019
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2019-96040
Type: conference
Imaging techniques for surveys of gelatinous zooplankton: Holographs, shadowgraphs, laser scanning and 3D reconstructions
D. Lindsay, M. Hidaka, M. Sangekar, J. Nishikawa, R. Hopcroft, B. Thornton, H. Yamamoto & Y. Kawahito, 2019
Type: conference
Micro-ballast dispenser for long endurance underwater mapping platforms
Jose Cappelletto, Miquel Massot-Campos, Adrian Bodenmann, Subhra Kanti Das & Blair Thornton, 2019
DOI: 10.1109/UT.2019.8734317
Type: conference
The effect of physics-based corrections and data augmentation on transfer learning for segmentation of benthic imagery
Jennifer Walker, Adam Prugel-Bennett, Blair Thornton & Takaki Yamada, 2019
DOI: 10.1109/UT.2019.8734463
Type: conference
Sizing drop weights for deep diving submersibles taking into account non-uniform seawater density profiles
Blair Thornton, 2019, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2019.2898070
Type: article
An AUV based method for estimating hectare-scale distributions of deep sea cobalt-rich manganese crust deposits
Umesh Neettiyah, Blair Thornton, Yuya Nishida, Kazuo Ishii, Takumi Sato, Adrian Bodenmann & Tamaki Ura, 2019
Type: conference