No. 8 (2009)

Articles

• Small scale underwater change detection

  O. Delaunoy, N. Gracias, R. García

• ASCAT Scatterometer wind data processing

  Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen, Maria Belmonte, Anton Verhoef, Jeroen Verspeek, Jur Vogelzang

• Decorative PVD coatings as an enviromentally clean alternative to chrome plating

  Josep Anton Picas Barrachina, Maria Teresa Baile Puig, Antonio Forn Alonso

• Preparing levels 3 and 4 for the SMOS mission

  Jerôme Gourrion, Baptiste Mourre, Joaquim Ballabrera, Alfredo Aretxabaleta, Antonio Turiel

• Fault tolerant actuation for dorado class, AUVS.

  William Kirkwood, Anderson Will, Christopher J. Kitrick

• Smart sensors monitoring nodes and GIS for dolphins' environment assessment

  O. Postolache, J. Apolonia, N. Beirante, Miguel Pereira, P. Girao

• Pose-based slam with probabilistic scan matching algorithm using a mechanical scanned imaging sonar

  Angelos Mallios, Pere Ridao Rodríguez, Emili Hernández, David Ribas

• Very high-resolution seismo-acoustics in the study of seagrasses. The case of posidonia oceanica (Mediterranean sea)

  Claudio Lo Iacono, Eulàlia Gràcia, Juan José Dañobeitia

• Identification of phytoplankton pigment assemblages using derivative spectroscopy of hyperspectral remote-sensing reflectances

  Elena Torrecilla Ribalta, Jaume Piera Fernández, D. Stramski, R. Reynolds, E. Millán-Nuñez

• Smart sensor interface for sea bottom observatories

  Joaquín del Río Fernández, Yves Auffret, Daniel Toma, Shahram Shariat Panahi, Xavier André, Stéphane Barbot, Eric Menut, Yannick Lenault, Antonio Manuel Lázaro, Oussama Kassem Zein, Joel Champeau, Dominique Kerjean

• Editor's note

  Antonio Manuel Lázaro

• Integration of optical and acoustic sensors for D underwater scene reconstruction.

  N. Hurtós, Xavier Cufí Solè, J. Salvi

• Operational Observatory of the catalan sea (OOCS)

  A. Cruzado, Nixon Bahamón Rivera, R. Bernadello, M.A. Ahumada, D. Donis, G. Cardoso

• Pressure hull design and construction of the manned submersible Ictineu 3

  Álex Alcocer Peñas, Pere Forès i Malleu, Gian Piero Giuffré, Carme Parareda, Adrià Roca, Josep Roca

• Conformity of the quality in the measures

  Albert Garcia Benadí, David Palmero Jiménez, Eva Vaqué Carbonell, Antonio Manuel Lázaro

• The diagonal of the transform: Computationand meaning

  Carine Simon, Juan José Dañobeitia, Antonio Manuel Lázaro

• Eumetcast receiving station integration withinthe satellite image database interface (SAIDIN) system.

  Òscar Chic

• Telecom submarine cables, a business compatible with the environment protection

  Isabel Alcober Tena

• Data communication and control systems implementation in the OBSEA

  Carola Artero Delgado, Marc Nogueras Cervera, Juan José Dañobeitia, Antonio Manuel Lázaro

• Post-processing methods for ocean monitoring fro SAR imagery

  Mª Victoria Tello Alonso, Carlos López Martínez, Jordi Joan Mallorquí Franquet, Francisco J. López Dekker

• Wide-angle reflection and refraction seismic profile from the outer part of the gulf of Cadiz: nearest-seis cruise.

  Sara Martínez-Loriente, Valentí Sallarès, Rafael Bartolomé, Gràcia Eulàlia

• Conductivity cell for water quality monitoring

  Sérgio Ramalho, Helena Geirinhas Ramos, Pedro Ramos Bosch

• The effect of hysteresis on the fluxgate sensor behaviour

  Arturo Lopes Ribeiro

• Otolith growth allometry measurements in the european EEL

  Fabrizio Capoccioni, Corrado Costa, Paolo Menesatti, A. Lombarte, Jacopo Agguzzi, Eleonora Ciccotti

• Electronic upgrades on the second generation of an autonomous and portable cetacean auditory screening system

  Alex Mas, Joan Vicent Castell Balaguer, Joaquín del Río Fernández, Mike van der Schaar, Michel André

• The Ictineu 3 project: A modern manned submersible for scientific research and intervention.

  Álex Alcocer Peñas, Pere Forès i Malleu, Gian Piero Giuffré, Carme Parareda

• A simple approach for modeling impact force parameters for different materials

  Erik Molino Minero, Antonio Manuel Lázaro

• New methodological approach to estimate the turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate

  Rubén Quesada López, M. Lara, Jaume Piera Fernández, Elisa Berdalet Andrés

• Watertight tests for OBSEA equipments in the hyperbaric chamber

  Normandino Carreras Pons, Marc Nogueras Cervera, Alejandro Arbós, Antonio Manuel Lázaro

• Improve reliability using hotelling T2 technique in a liquefied natural gas plant

  Miguel Ángel Gómez Solaetxe, Juan Luis Larrabe Barrena

• Coastal and marine landscape ecology based on marine geospatial data infrastructure for analysis of marine resources and fishing effort

  Leonardo Marotta, Jacopo Aguzzi

• Scientific information resources and bibliometric indicators for the research performance assessment

  Adrià Martin Cantos

• Ant colony optimized planning for unmanned surface marine vehicles

  J.M. Benítez, Juan F. Jiménez, Jose M. Girón-Sierra

• Potential applications of automated video-image analysis in the pelagic and demersal environtment including the deep-sea

  Jacopo Aguzzi, Corrado Costa, Paolo Menesatti, Antonio Manuel Lázaro, Joaquín del Río Fernández

• An automated, real time classification system for biological and anthropogenic sounds from fixed ocean observatories

  Serge Alain Zaugg, Mike van der Schaar, Ludwig Houégnigan, Michel André

• Time-scale slowness adaptive filters

  Sergi Ventosa Rahuet, Carine Simon, M. Schimmel, Juan José Dañobeitia

• Colour calibration for quantitative biological analysis: A novel automated multivariate approach.

  Corrado Costa, Federico Pallottino, Claudio Angelini, Marco Proietti, Fabrizio Capoccioni, Jacopo Aguzzi, Francesca Antonucci, Paolo Menessati

• Securing on the instrument "Plug and work" device drivers

  Jesper Zedlitz, Norbert Luttenberger

• Potential support vector machines for phytoplankton fluorescence spectra classification: comparison with self-organizing maps.

  Ismael F. Aymerich, Jaume Piera Fernández, Johannes Mohr, Aureli Soria-Frisch, Klaus Obermayer

• A multilayer service data acquisition and operation system for oceanographic ships and instrumentation networks

  E. Arilla, D. Afonso, O. Garcia, A. Hernández, J. Olivé, Juan Luis Ruiz, X. Romero, Antonio Sandoval, J.A. Serrano, J. Sorribes, Enric Trullols Farreny, Joaquín del Río Fernández

• Underwater seismometer validation

  Francesc Xavier Roset Juan, Marc Nogueras Cervera, Albert Garcia Benadí

• Design and deployment of Low-Cost Drifting Buoys for coastal monitoring applications

  Francisco J. Gutiérrez, Gabriel Navarro, Raúl García, David Roque, Javier Ruiz

• Modeling for the implementation of feigned protoype for the characterization of communications among nets of wide band PLC and WI-MAX

  José Roberto Ramírez Cervantes, Héctor Enrique Gaona Flores

• ESONET NOE: Status of the project

  Roland Person

• Time stability of ocean bottom seismometers (OBS)

  Shahram Shariat Panahi, Antonio Manuel Lázaro, Francisco Corrêa Alegría

• Evaluation of MBari puck protocol for interoperable ocean observatories

  Joaquín del Río Fernández, Tom O'Reilly, Kent Headley, Duane Edgington, Daniel Toma, Jesper Zedlitz, Frank Johnson, Greg Johnson, Eric Davis, Klaus Schleisiek, Cater Neil, Reo Phillips, Eric Delory, Christoph Waldmann

• Trinocular ystem for 3D motion and dense structure estimation

  Ricard Campos, Jordi Ferrer, Miquel Villanueva, Lluis Magí, Rafael García

• An evaluation of soil moisture downscaling techniques using L.Band Airbone observations

  María Piles, Mercedes Magdalena Vall-Llossera Ferran, Adriano José Camps Carmona, Marco Talone

• Normality test analysis of radiometric signals for radio frequency interference detection

  J. M. Tarongi, A. Camps

• PLOCAN, an Off-shore environmentally sustainable infrastructure to accelerate ocean research, development and innovation at increasing depths.

  Joaquín Hernández Brito, Eric Delory, Octavio Llinás

• Experimental electronic instrument for a hydraulic towing winch

  Perfecto Mariño Espiñeira, Fernando Machado, Francisco Poza

• Incoherent versus coherent matched mode processing for shallow water source localisation using a single hydrophone

  B. Nicolas, G. Le Touzé, C. Soares, S. Jesus, J.I. Mars

• Overview of existing instrumentation relevant for ocean observatories

  Anders Tengberg

• Sea-Ice remote sensing with GNSS reflections

  Estel Cardellach, María Belmonte Rivas, Fran Fabra Cervellera, Oleguer Nogués Correig, Santiago Oliveras, Serni Ribó Vedrilla

• Fish telemetry and positioning from an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV)

  Thomas M. Grothues, Joseph A. Dobarro

• Towards the ecological dredger

  Sergio Rodríguez, Alberto Lago, Aritz Villodas, Artzai Picón

• ICZM TEchnologies for integrating data and support decision making

  Leonardo Marotta

• Application of geometric-morphometric, hypersdectral imaging and molecular makers to the study of depth-driven diferences in populations of decapods (crustacea)

  Jacopo Aguzzi, Corrado Costa, Juan Batista Company, Francesca Antonucci, Federico Pallottino, Paolo Menesatti, Emiliano Canali, Stefano Giorgi, Claudio Angelini, Valerio Ketmaier

• Autonomous vehicle development for ver

  Spartacus Gomáriz Castro, Jordi Prat Tasias, Alejandro Arbós, O. Pallares, Carlos Viñolo

• Cabling, connectors and splices structure for the OBSEA. Expandable subsea observatory.

  Josep Santamaria Català, Marc Nogueras Cervera, Antonio Manuel Lázaro

• SMOS: ESA'S Water Mission

  Jordi Font, Francisco Torres Torres

• The NEMO project status

  Mario Sedita, Rosanna Cocimano

• Architecture for the real-time monitoring of noise pollution and marine mammal activity

  Mike van der Schaar, Serge Alain Zaugg, Ludwig Houégnigan, Joan Vicent Castell Balaguer, Michel André

• Classification of mathematical models to compute useful in the treatment of irrigation district mexico 03

  Héctor Enrique Gaona Flores

• Seafloor observatories from experiments and projects to the european permanent underwater network EMSO

  Paolo Faviali, Laura Beranzoli

• Automated viedo-image analysis for the analysis of the behaviou of deep-water lobsters (nephrops norvegicus).

  Sergi Pons, Jacopo Aguzzi, Jaume Piera Fernández

• HF radar monitoring initiative in Barcelona coastline: currents and wave measurements

  Neus Tarafa Güell, Jordi Velo Pitarch, Vicente Fernández López

• Imaging techniques to study the effects of low frequency sounds on cephalopods spp.

  Marta Solé Carbonell, Antonio Lombarte, Manel López Bejar, Àlex Mas, Michel André

• Cetacean ultrastructural cochlear imaging through scanning electron microscopy

  María Morell Ybarz, Marc Lenoir, Jean-Luc Puel, Thierry Jauniaux, Eduard Degollada, Michel André

• Robust and accurate monitoring of Guadalquivir estuary waters: a high-resolution and low-maintenance system for water quality and hydrodynamics

  Francisco J. Gutiérrez, Gabriel Navarro, David Roque, Raúl García, José Luis Fernández, Miguel Ángel Losada, Javier Ruiz

• A 3D real-time algorithm based on array processing for the localization of cetaceans

  Ludwig Houégnigan, Serge Alain Zaugg, Mike van der Schaar, Michel André

• Obsea web: Design and implementation

  Alberto Hidalgo Castro, Iris Santamaria Motis, Josep Santamaria Català

• Dynamic effect of quasi-geostrophic turbulence on ocean surface as derived from satellite imagery

  Antonio Turiel

• Potential use of microwavesatellite measurements reconstruct the three-dimensional dynamics of the anic uuper layers

  Jordi Isern i Fontanet, Bertrand Chapron, Patrice Klein, Guillaume Lapeyre

• Ocean monitoring using GNSS-R techniques and microwave radiometry: The pau instrument concept

  Adriano Camps, Xavier Bosch, Isaac Ramos Pérez, Juan Fernando Marchán Hernández, Enric Valencia Domènech, Nereida Rodríguez Álvarez

• 17 years of european altimetric missions and their calibration

  Mònica Roca

• Real time classification of sperm whale clicks and shipping impulses from fixed ocean observatories

  Serge Alain Zaugg, Mike van der Schaar, Ludwig Houégnigan, Michel André

• Power supply control of the OBSEA seafloor observatory

  Xavier Palou, Marc Nogueras Cervera, Antonio Manuel Lázaro

• Obsea servers network

  Francisco Javier Cadena Muñoz, Marc Nogueras Cervera, Alberto Hidalgo Castro, Jordi Sorribas, Oscar García

• Geographic information system architecture appplied to oceanographic data acquisition systems

  J. Olivé, E. Arilla, D. Afonso, O. Garcia, A. Hernández, Juan Luis Ruiz, X. Romero, Antonio Sandoval, J.A. Serrano, Jordi Sorribas

• Integration of a permanent OBS offshore NE Iberian Peninsula to the CAtalan Seismic Network

  C. Olivera, T. Frontera, Juan Jara, X. Goula

• Paleoseismology of active faults based on multiscale seismic imaging

  Ximena Moreno, Eulàlia Gràcia, Rafael Bartolomé, Claudio Lo Iacono

• A permanent submarine observatory in alboran and the long term OBS fomar Network. news.

  Antonio Pazos, José Martín Davila, Vicenta María Elisa Buforn Peiró, Agustín Udías Vallina

• An on-board data management solution

  E. Tel, J. Rivera, JM Cabanas, J. M. Vazquez, S. Carballo, R. Minguelez, M. Gallardo, C. Amutio

• Aneris: Devlopment of an intelligent oceanographic probe with high resolution autonomous sampling and col·lecting capabilities

  V. Cano, N. Pujol, Jaume Piera Fernández, Elena Torrecilla Ribalta, I.F. Aymerich

• Issues in the balancing of the SMOS ocean salinity trieval cost function

  Roberto Sabia, A. Camps, M. Portabella, Marco Talone, J. Ballabrera, J. Gourrion, A.L. Aretxabaleta, Carolina Gabarró Prats, J. Font

• Principal component analysis to compress acquired data offshore

  Juan Luis Larrabe, Miguel Ángel Gómez, Francisco José Álvarez, Elena Gastiasoro, M.Carmen Rey

• Satellite communication systems onboard two spanish oceanografic vessels

  D. Afonso, E. Arilla, O. Garcia, A. Hernández, J. Olivé, Juan Luis Ruiz, X. Romero, Antonio Sandoval, J.A. Serrano, Jordi Sorribas

• Modeling the underwater noise associated to the construction and operation of offshore wind turbines

  Joan Vicent Castell Balaguer, Mike van der Schaar, Àlex Mas, Serge Alain Zaugg, Ludwig Houégnigan, María Morell Ybarz, Marta Solé Carbonell, Michel André

• Aplication of remote senging techniques to the study of internal waves in the strait of Gibraltar

  Águeda Vázquez, Gabriel Navarro, Susana Flecha, Miguel Bruno

• Tempo-Mini: A Custom-designed instrument for real-time monitpring of hydrothermal vent ecosystems

  Yves Auffret, Jean-Yves Coail, Laurent Delauney, Julien Legran, Jacky Dupont, Loic Dussud, Gérard Guyader, Anthony Ferrant, Stéphane Barbot, Agathe Laes, Karen Bucas, Jozée Sarrazin, Pierre Marie Sarradin

• A software for time series analysis of nortek instruments: TSA_NORTEK_V1

  Águeda Vázquez, Miguel Bruno, Rafel Mañanes, Oswaldo López Monzón, José Manuel Quijano, Juan Ramón Conforto

• Seabed seismic coupling - Testing and evaluation problems

  Tim Owen