Publications

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Research outputs

Autonomous underwater vehicle “BOSS-A” for acoustic and visual survey of manganese crusts
Yuya Nishida, Kenji Nagahashi, Takumi Sato, Adrian Bodenmann, Blair Thornton, Akira Asada & Tamaki Ura, 2016, Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 28(1), 91-94
DOI: 10.20965/jrm.2016.p0091
Type: article
Application of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for in-situ measurement of metal grade for seafloor mineral processing
Yasuharu Nakajima, Blair Thornton & Takumi Sato, 2016
DOI: 10.23919/oceans.2015.7404482
Type: conference
Development of an autonomous underwater vehicle for survey of cobalt-rich manganese crust
Yuya Nishida, Kenji Nagahashi, Takumi Sato, Adrian Bodenmann, Blair Thornton, Akira Asada & Tamaki Ura, 2016
DOI: 10.23919/OCEANS.2015.7404606
Type: conference
Generation of 137Cs surface distribution maps using dense measurement transects of a towed gamma-ray spectrometer
Kosuke Murata, Blair Thornton, Kazunori Nagano & Seiki Ohnishi, 2016
DOI: 10.23919/oceans.2015.7404517
Type: conference
Identification of manganese crusts in 3D visual reconstructions to filter geo-registered acoustic sub-surface measurements
Umesh Neettiyah, Takumi Sato, Mehul Sangekar, Adrian Bodenmann, Blair Thornton, Tamaki Ura & Akira Asada, 2016
DOI: 10.23919/oceans.2015.7404471
Type: conference
Wide area 3D visual reconstructions to survey the distribution of macrobenthos in deep-sea hydrothermal vent systems
Blair Thornton, Adrian Bodenmann, Ryota Nakajima, Stefan B. Williams, Oscar Pizarro & Ken Takai, 2016
Type: conference
Deep-sea laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and its application to hydrothermal mineral surveys in the Okinawa Trough
Blair Thornton, Tomoko Takahashi, Takumi Sato, Tetsuo Sakka, Toshihiko Ohki & Koichi Ohki, 2016
Type: conference