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#Oceanography | Applications
#SEA.AI | Detecting floating objects early | Using thermal and optical cameras to catch also objects escaping conventional systems such as Radar or AIS: Unsignalled crafts or other floating obstacles, e.g., containers, tree trunks, buoys, inflatables, kayaks, persons over board | System computes input from lowlight and thermal cameras, using Machine Vision technology, deep learning capabilities and proprietary database of millions of annotated marine objects | High-resolution lowlight and thermal cameras | Real-time learning of water surface patterns | Searching for anomalies | Distinguishing water from non-water | Comparing anomalies with neural network | Recognize objects by matching combination of filters | Augmented reality video stream combined with map view | Intelligent alarming based on threat level | Detecting persons in water | On-board cameras with integrated image processing | Providing digital understanding of vessel surroundings on water | SEA.AI App on smartphone or tablet
#SailDrone | Oceangoing Autonomous Surface Vehicle
#Data Cosmos | MultiSatellite Data Platform | Open Cosmos
#Navy | Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (CNMOC)
#Bigelow Laboratory For Ocean Sciences In Maine | Independent, nonprofit research institute
#Bermuda Atlantic Time Series Study | Collecting data on hydrographic, chemical, and biological parameters throughout the water column at multiple sites within the Sargasso Sea
#Argo | Collecting information from inside the ocean using a fleet of robotic instruments that drift with the ocean currents and move up and down between the surface and a mid water level | Floats (instruments) spend almost all their life below the surface | Observing ocean data related to climate change
#European Space Agency(ESA) | AIDMAP | AIR SOS | BLUE | DL4PlasticLitter | DOLPHINN | HyperDrone | MARLISAT | MUSS2 | Ocean Scan | Plastic Litter Project
#MDI | High Powered Optical Instruments On Floats
#University Of Technology Sydney In Australia | Research
#OceanCleanup | Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) cleaning and analysis
#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
#General Atomics | Air to Air Laser Communication System | Crosslinks from aircraft to other platforms such as unmanned aircraft, maritime vessels, and space systems
#SatelIoT | IoT connectivity over standard 5G NB-IoT
#WWF | Halting and reversing biodiversity loss | Conserving land, freshwater and ocean globally | Protection of intact ecosystems | Tackling unsustainable production | Eliminating subsidies harmful to nature | Reducing the unsustainable footprint of production and consumption
#Aqualink | Ocean conservation technology | Autonomous Surface Vehicle(ASV) kit | ROS | Pixhawk | NVIDA Jetson GPU | Solar powered smart buoy
#Seakit International | MaxLimer | Uncrewed surface vessel
#ESA | Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer | Ganymede | Callisto | Characterisation of the ocean layers and detection of putative subsurface water reservoirs
#University of California Santa Barbara | High Seas Treaty
#Pew Charitable Trusts | High Seas Treaty
#Marine Conservation Institute | High Seas Treaty
#Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) | High Seas Treaty
#OceanCare | High Seas Treaty
#Center for Oceanic Awareness, Research, and Education (COARE) | High Seas Treaty
#BirdLife International | High Seas Treaty
#IUCN | High Seas Treaty
#World Economic Forum | High Seas Treaty
#High Seas Alliance | High Seas Treaty
#Princeton University | Archeoligical Oceanography
#EuroGOOS | Operational Oceanography
#Intel | Neuromorphic computing
#NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Ocean observations from space | The rate of sea level rise is increasing | NASA Sea Level Change science team | CNES | Annual sea level observations and future projections | Climate change is melting Earth ice sheets and glaciers | Measurements of sea surface height
#U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Radar altimeters producing more precise measurements of sea level | Observations from coastal surface based sources
#CNES | International Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission | Measuring the elevation of nearly all the water on Earth surface | Providing insights into how ocean influences climate change and the water cycle; how a warming world affects water storage in lakes, rivers, and reservoirs | Ka band Radar Interferometer (KaRIn) instrument
#University of Rome, Italy | Thule High Arctic Atmospheric Observatory in Greenland | Dirigibile Italia Arctic Station run by the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in the Svalbard Islands
#World Meteorological Organization | Marine heat waves research
#UK Marine Biological Association | Marine heat waves research
#UN climate science body IPCC | Marine heat waves research
#Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute | Marine heat waves research
#US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Marine heat waves research
#Rio de Janeiro State University in Brazil |Distribution of elements and nutrients that impact quantity and quality of phytoplankton in oceans
#São Paulo University | Bio-optics oceanography
#Maine In-situ Sound & Color Lab at the University of Maine | Statistical technique analyzing several variables—all the colors observed by MODIS—at once
#Advanced Navigation | AI-based marine navigation systems | AI-Based underwater navigation solutions and robotics technology | Hydrography | Underwater acoustic positioning solutions | Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) | Inertial navigation systems (INS) | Sidney, Australia
#SEA.AI App | Detecting floating objects early | Using thermal and optical cameras to catch unsignalled craft, floating obstacles, containers, buoys, inflatables, kayaks and persons over board
#Anybotics | Workforce App | Operate ANYmal robot from device | Set up and review robot missions | Industrial Inspection
#LookOut | AI vision system | Synthesized data from charts, AIS, computer vision, and cloud fusing it into one 3D augmented reality view | Connects to existing boat display | Mountable camera system to the top of any boat | Lookout App for laptop, phone or tablet | Infrared vision | Night vision sensor | Spotting small vessels, floating debris, buoys, people in water | Blind spot detection | Backup camera | Temperature breaks, bird cluster locations, underwater structures for anglers | Camera streaming over WiFi to phones and tablets on the boat | Over-the-air (OTA) updates | Marine-grade water-proof enclosure | Integrated with satellite compass | National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) communication standard interface | Multifunction Display (MFD) | Multi-core CPU driving augmented reality compute stack | ClearCloud service | NVIDIA RTX GPU for real-time computer vision | DockWa app
#National Technical University of Athens | MariNeXt deep-learning framework detecting and identifying marine pollution | Sentinel-2 imagery | Detecting marine debris and oil spills on sea surface | Automated data collection and analysis across large spatial and temporal scales | Deep learning framework | Data augmentation techniques | Multi-scale convolutional attention network | Marine Debris and Oil Spill (MADOS) dataset | cuDNN-accelerated PyTorch framework | NVIDIA RTX A5000 GPUs | NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant Program | AI framework produced promising predictive maps | Shortcomings: unbalanced dataset, marine water and oil spills are abundant, foam and natural organic material are less represented
#Scripps Institution of Oceanography | Part of UC, San Diego | Physical, chemical, biological, geological, and geophysical studies of oceans and atmosphere | Fleet of research vessels | Discovered new bacteria in ocean sediments capable of producing antibiotic molecules | Highlighted deep ocean as biomedical resource | Identified Cromwell Current
#National Oceanography Centre (NOC) | Marine science research and technology | Coastal and deep ocean research | Research ships | Autonomous underwater vehicles | Mission to advance oceanographic research and education | UK sites in Southampton and Liverpool
#High Seas Treaty | United Nations
#Open Ocean Robotics | Solar powered autonomous boats | Real time information to protect oceans | Sensors, cameras and communication devices capturing information | Solar powered boats can travel nonstop for months, without producing any greenhouse gas emissions, noise pollution or risk of oil spills | ASVs (Autonomous Surface Vehicle) can monitor for oil spills, detect intentional dumping
#Orca AI | FleetView for fleet operators and management | SeaPod | Artificial intelligence-based maritime navigation assistant, watchkeeper | Automated object detection and prioritization | All marine object detection | Curbing marine mammal strikes | Reducing whale mortality rates
#SeaRobotics | Unmanned Marine Systems & Engineering | Autonomous Surface Vehicles | Sensor suites
#Syracuse University | Model calculatung the amount of free hydrogen gas produced and stored beneath the seafloor | Tectonic spreading rate | Thickness of serpentinized rocks | Serpentinized rocks: greenish-brown-patterned surface resemblung snakeskin -- have been chemically altered by water as lifted up by the spreading tectonic plates in Earth crust | Molecules of free hydrogen gas produced as by-product of serpentinization process | Stacey L. Worman, Lincoln F. Pratson, Jeffrey A. Karson, Emily M. Klein. Global rate and distribution of H2gas produced by serpentinization within oceanic lithosphere
#National Technical University of Athens | MariNeXt deep-learning framework detecting and identifying marine pollution | Sentinel-2 imagery | Detecting marine debris and oil spills on sea surface | Automated data collection and analysis across large spatial and temporal scales | Deep learning framework | Data augmentation techniques | Multi-scale convolutional attention network | Marine Debris and Oil Spill (MADOS) dataset | cuDNN-accelerated PyTorch framework | NVIDIA RTX A5000 GPUs | NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant Program | AI framework produced promising predictive maps | Shortcomings: unbalanced dataset, marine water and oil spills are abundant, foam and natural organic material are less represented
#Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence | AI for the Environment | Robot planning precise action points to perform tasks accurately and reliably | Vision Language Model (VLM) controlling robot behavior | Introducing automatic synthetic data generation pipeline | Instruction-tuning VLM to robotic domains and needs | Predicting image keypoint affordances given language instructions | RGB image rendered from procedurally generated 3D scene | Computing spatial relations from camera perspective | Generating affordances by sampling points within object masks and object-surface intersections | Instruction-point pairs fine-tune language model | RoboPoint predicts 2D action points from image and instruction, which are projected into 3D using depth map | Robot navigates to these 3D targets with motion planner | Combining object and space reference data with VQA and object detection data | Leveraging spatial reasoning, object detection, and affordance prediction from diverse sources | Enabling to generalize combinatorially.| Synthetic dataset used to teach RoboPoint relational object reference and free space reference | Red and ground boxes as visual prompts to indicate reference objects | Cyan dots as visualized ground truth | NVIDIA | | Universidad Catolica San Pablo | University of Washington
#Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara | Building models linking nitrogen and silicon isotope compositions to biological processes and ocean circulation | Investigating how diatoms in Southern Ocean help to decode chemical signals | Providing insight into nutrient cycling and climate interactions from past glacial periods | Research cruise focused on collecting water and particle samples | Study how diatoms build nitrogen and silicon-rich shells | Understandung how isotopic signals are produced and preserved in fossils
#University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography || Investigating diatoms in Southern Ocean | Getting insight into nutrient cycling and climate interactions | Studying how diatoms build nitrogen and silicon-rich shells | Helping scientists build models linking nitrogen and silicon isotope compositions to biological processes and ocean circulation