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Exploring Space-Time Tradeoffs in Autonomous Sampling for Marine Robotics

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In the coastal ocean, biological and physical dynamics vary on spatiotemporal scales spanning many orders of magnitude. At large spatial (O(100km)) and temporal (O(weeks to months)) scales, traditional shipboard and moored measurements are very effective at quantifying mean and varying oceanic properties. At scales smaller than the internal Rossby radius (O(10km) for typical coastal stratification at mid-latitude), horizontal, vertical and temporal inhomogeneity is the rule rather than the exception.

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    Rishi Graham, Frédéric Py, Thom Maughan & Kanna Rajan

  2. Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

    Jnaneshwar Das

  3. Dept. of Marine Sciences, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, USA

    Drew Lucas

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Graham, R., Py, F., Das, J., Lucas, D., Maughan, T., Rajan, K. (2013). Exploring Space-Time Tradeoffs in Autonomous Sampling for Marine Robotics. In: Desai, J., Dudek, G., Khatib, O., Kumar, V. (eds) Experimental Robotics. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 88. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00065-7_55

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