By J.E. Watson and O. Zielinski (Eds.)
Using optical method, instrumentation and photonics units for imaging, imaginative and prescient and optical sensing is of accelerating significance in realizing our marine atmosphere. Subsea optics could make an incredible contribution to the security and sustainable administration of ocean assets and give a contribution to tracking the reaction of marine structures to weather switch. this significant e-book presents an authoritative evaluation of key ideas, applied sciences and their applications.
The booklet is split into 3 components. the 1st half offers a normal creation to the foremost techniques in subsea optics and imaging, imaging applied sciences and the improvement of ocean optics and color research. half reports using subsea optics in environmental research. An advent to the ideas of underwater mild fields is via an summary of colored dissolved natural topic (CDOM) and an evaluate of nutrition within the water column. This part concludes with discussions of the houses of subsea bioluminescence, destructive algal blooms and their effect and at last an summary of optical strategies for learning suspended sediments, turbulence and combining within the marine atmosphere. half 3 stories subsea optical platforms applied sciences. A basic review of imaging and visualisation utilizing traditional images and video leads onto complex suggestions like electronic holography, laser line-scanning and range-gated imaging in addition to their use in managed commentary systems or international remark networks. This part additionally outlines recommendations like Raman spectroscopy, hyperspectral sensing and imaging, laser Doppler anemometry (LDA) and particle picture velocimetry (PIV), optical fibre sensing and LIDAR structures. ultimately, a bankruptcy on fluorescence methodologies brings the quantity to a close.
With its individual editor and foreign crew of members, Subsea optics and imaging is a regular reference for these getting to know, constructing and utilizing subsea optical applied sciences in addition to environmental scientists and companies excited about tracking the marine environment.
- Provides an authoritative evaluate of key ideas, applied sciences and their applications
- Outlines the most important techniques in subsea optics and imaging, imaging applied sciences and the improvement of ocean optics and color analysis
- Reviews the homes of subsea bioluminescence, destructive algal blooms and their impact
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Using optical technique, instrumentation and photonics units for imaging, imaginative and prescient and optical sensing is of accelerating significance in knowing our marine atmosphere. Subsea optics could make an immense contribution to the safety and sustainable administration of ocean assets and give a contribution to tracking the reaction of marine structures to weather switch.
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From conventional two-dimensional (2D) to three-dimensional (3D) imaging; from sensing of environmental parameters such as ocean colour (Chapter 3) to seafloor mapping; from studies of optical properties to understanding the nature of propagation of light in water (Chapter 4); or from monitoring of plankton or suspended particles (Chapter 9) and fish populations studies, subsea imaging and sensing have vital roles to play. Techniques such as Raman spectroscopy (Chapter 16) and hyperspectral sensing (Chapter 20) have improved our understanding of light and its interaction with biogeochemical water constituents.
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Such sensors can be integrated into autonomously or remotely controlled observation platforms or global observation networks (Chapter 19). More recently, linked networks of observation platforms allowed data from dozens of sensors to be combined; the whole field of data acquisition and visualisation and subsea optical communications is crucial to our developments. From conventional two-dimensional (2D) to three-dimensional (3D) imaging; from sensing of environmental parameters such as ocean colour (Chapter 3) to seafloor mapping; from studies of optical properties to understanding the nature of propagation of light in water (Chapter 4); or from monitoring of plankton or suspended particles (Chapter 9) and fish populations studies, subsea imaging and sensing have vital roles to play.