A panel session identified the challenges and opportunities in emerging technologies such as ocean sampling networks, underwater IOT, resident underwater vehicles, underwater human robot interaction, and ultra-long endurance systems.
Ocean Best Practices OBPS Success Story – GOOS-Endorsed Best Practices
During the last year, Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), working with the OBPS, have developed a process to enable GOOS community best practices to be identified and made available via a search function in the OBPS.
Improving Global and Regional Ocean Observing Through Best Practices and Standards
Why adopting and documenting Best Practices and Standards is important to understanding our Oceans better, and thereby solving problems of the coming Decade.
Inspiring young minds towards Oceanic Engineering – TryEngineering webinar
An Oceanic Engineering webinar was a great opportunity to reach out to young minds who were curious on Ocean-related careers.
AUV-related research articles in April issue of IEEE JOE
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles are a hot topic in oceanic exploration. The April 2020 issue of JOE published 8 articles related to AUVs. A quick look at these articles.
Ocean Decade – Regional Planning Workshop for Northern/Central Indian Ocean countries and ROPME sea area
A Regional Planning Workshop for Northern/Central Indian Ocean countries and ROPME sea area was conducted at the National Institute of Ocean Technology, Chennai.
UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable development – Objectives and Planning (Part 1/2)
Is there a way to reverse ocean health decline and continue to rely on it ? The coming Ocean Decade is an opportunity to seek a positive answer to this question.
Chandrayaan-2 mission moves another step closer to the Moon
Chandrayaan-2 mission moves another step closer to the Moon after it successfully entered the lunar orbit, the official twitter handle of ISRO tweeted.
First set of beautiful images of Earth from Chandrayaan 2 mission released
The first set of images of Earth captured by the Chandrayaan 2 moon-exploration program of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) have been released. The tweets by ISRO’s official handle show the beautiful images taken on August 3rd. Chandrayaan-2 is India’s second foray to the Moon. It was launched on the 22nd of July using the Geosynchronous launch vehicle (GSLV- … Read More
The European Robotics League (ERL) Emergency 2018
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We have seen teams developing AUV robustness and resilience to overcome failures and fostering advancement of state of the art through ERL Emergency competitions.Gabriele Ferri, ERL Emergency 2018 Director Fausto Ferreira, ERL Emergency 2018 Deputy DirectorThis story was first published in the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Beacon Newsletter December 2018, Volume 7, Number 4Origin The European Robotics League (ERL) Emergency … Read More