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Title: |
A Smart Multimodal Innovative Model For Marine Environmental
Monitoring |
Authors: |
Alessandro Tonacci, Giovanni Lacava, Marco Andrea Lippa,
Lisa Lupi, Giovanni Pioggia,
Lavinio Gualdesi, Claudio
Domenici, Michele Cocco |
Published in: |
(2015).ECMS 2015 Proceedings edited
by: Valeri M. Mladenov, Grisha Spasov, Petia Georgieva, Galidiya Petrova, European
Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2015 ISBN:
978-0-9932440-0-1 29th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Albena (Varna), Bulgaria,
May 26th – 29th,
2015 |
Citation
format: |
Alessandro
Tonacci, Giovanni Lacava,
Marco Andrea Lippa, Lisa Lupi,
Giovanni Pioggia, Lavinio
Gualdesi, Claudio Domenici, Michele Cocco (2015).
A Smart Multimodal Innovative Model
For Marine Environmental Monitoring, ECMS 2015 Proceedings edited by: Valeri M. Mladenov, Petia Georgieva, Grisha Spasov, Galidiya Petrova European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2015-0455 |
DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2015-0455 |
Abstract: |
Hydrocarbon pollution represents one of
the most serious issues for the health and entirety of the extremely fragile
marine ecosystem, thus, the strategies for its
monitoring have been grown in number and complexity in the last decades.
Therefore, the realization of systems able to detect the presence of
pollutants in the marine environment has become extremely complex, involving
different figures and integrated know-hows. This
paper presents an innovative model for the real-time assessment of pollutants
on sea surface based on a network of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), also able to sail the sea surface, equipped with
sensors, capable of detecting volatile organic compounds (VOCs)
produced by hydrocarbons. In particular, within this context, an AUV equipped
with an E-Nose-like system is proposed, with the sensors employed that were
characterized both on laboratory bench and at sea. The results obtained
confirmed the feasibility of the approach proposed as well as a good
reliability of the data acquired, confirming the likely employment of this
system within an integrated marine monitoring tool. |
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