IN33C:
Robot-Assisted Measurement of Geophysical Information Posters


Session ID#: 9186

Session Description:
The personal robotics movement has resulted in a diffusion of low-cost robot platforms into geophysical domains such as hydrology, volcanology, and environmental science. Land, sea, and aerial robots have become new methods of sensing and sense-making for investigators because they allow access to locations that may have been previously unreachable. The flexible payloads of these robots permit geophysical information gathering at spatial and temporal scales that extend beyond the more fixed resolutions of traditional remote sensing platforms. The synthesis and integration of these data sets is expected to generate higher resolution physically based models that will enable better understanding and prediction of various system dynamics. This session will provide an interdisciplinary forum to discuss current and needed advances for field robot-based technologies focused towards geophysical applications. Contributions are invited from investigators who are developing and deploying novel robot platforms and/or payloads for any type of geophysical information gathering.
Primary Convener:  Joshua Peschel, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Convener:  Branko Kerkez, University of Michigan, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Chair:  Joshua Peschel, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Joshua Peschel, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • NS - Near Surface Geophysics
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0933 Remote sensing [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring [HYDROLOGY]
9805 Instruments useful in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]
9810 New fields (not classifiable under other headings) [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A new Concept for High Resolution Benthic Mapping and Data Aquisition: MANSIO-VIATOR (59075)
Sascha Floegel, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
A Robotic Communications Gateway for Ocean Observations (Invited) (65828)
John A Orcutt1, Jonathan Berger2, Gabi Laske3 and Jeff Babcock1, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States, (2)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States
An airborne robotic platform for mapping thermal structure in surface water bodies (Invited) (70157)
Sally E Thompson1, Michaella Chung1, Carrick Detweiler2 and John-Paul Ore2, (1)University of California Berkeley, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Computer Science and Engineering, Lincoln, NE, United States
Adaptive, real-time hypoxia measurements using an autonomous boat (83602)
Branko Kerkez1, Brandon Preclaro Wong2, Laura Balzano3, John Lipor4 and Donald Scavia3, (1)University of Michigan, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)Portland State University, Portland, United States
Canopy Measurements with a Small Unmanned Aerial System (84307)
Joshua Peschel, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Waterway-View Imaging with a Small Unmanned Surface System (86480)
Sierra Noelle Young, North Carolina State University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Raleigh, NC, United States and Joshua Peschel, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Ground-Based Robotic Sensing of an Agricultural Sub-Canopy Environment (86525)
Adam Burns, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and Joshua Peschel, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States

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