INMARTECH 2023 Symposium Presentations

Presentations and final documents from the 2023 INMARTECH meeting on June 20-22, 2023 at the Unidad de Technologica Marina (UTM) in Barcelona, Spain.

Meeting Agenda & Attendance:

• INMARTECH 2023 Technical Program
• INMARTECH 2023 Participant List

Presentations:

Tuesday 20th June 2023

• Many-to-many sensor data collection with MQTT (E. Stevens) Scripps. USA
• Practical Cybersecurity Compliance for the US Academic Research Fleet (W. Drake & R.Kiser) INDIANA UNIV. USA
• UTM Data Centre services useful for technicians. (S.Diez) UTM-CSIC
• Mapping Equipment. (M. Lobecker) KONGSBERG DISCOVERY
• The Multibeam Advisory Committee and Ocean Mapping Community Wiki (K. Jerram) CCOM-UNH. USA
• Improving Data quality with the HydroOffice suite and MAC assessment tools (G. Masetti). CCOM-UNH. USA & DANISH HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE (K Jerram) CCOM-UNH. USA
• Extending the Boundaries of Remote & Autonomous Operations (G. West) SONARDYNE
• Effectively sharing large winches between institutions (D. Fishichella) WHOI. USA
• Compact Winch Handling System. (T.Ringstadt). ENTEC. NORWAY
• HiPAP Family Products. (J. Mart). KONSGBERG DISCOVERY
• Development of the CTD Modem – “From Dial-up to Broadband” (T. Goodwin) CSIRO. ASTRALIA
• Building hyper-realistic underwater virtual models for investigations using neural radiance fields (NeRF) and unmanned underwater vehicles (H. Ludvigsen) SPAC NORWAY
• A Flexible Shipboard CCTV System (T. Young) UNIV HAWAII
• Recent Projects NIOZ (Y Witte) NIOZ. NETHERLANDS
• Ocean Sonics Smart digital hydrophone array for research vessels – case studies with RV Investigator and RSV Nuyina (J.Guo) OCEANSONICS. CANADA

Wednesday 21st June 2023

• Towards an Armada strategy – sensor, platforms and data flow. (Y.Ladroit) KONGSBERG DISCOVERY
• Increasing glider capabilities at NOC Unmanned vehicles (B.Alsup) NOC. UK
• EIVA ROTVs: Stabilized sensor platforms for studying the water column and underwater topography. (S. Steimetz) EIVA DENMARK
• Shipboard ADCP Acquisition, Processing and Monitoring with UHDAS (A. Frambach) UNIV HAWAII
• ROV and AUV Solutions for Unparalleled Underwater Filming and Exploration (B. King) BOX FISH RESEARCH. NEW ZEALAND
• NIOZ fleet Renewal (Y Witte) NIOZ. NETHERLANDSS
• NOC ́s New Tethered Underwater Vehicle MPUS. (E. Mutlu) NOC UK
• RVIDAS- Novel Additions to OpenRVDAS on the R/V Investigator. (E. Pietraroia) CSIRO. AUSTRALIA
• HiSeasNet – Evolution of Satellite Connectivity for the US Academic Research Fleet (T.Lockwood) UCSD. USA
• Performance evaluation of a combined ADCP-scientific echosounder system (C.Molina) Nortek Group .NORWAY
• Coastal Observatory Xunta de Galizia. (C. Almécija). CETMAR. SPAIN
• Vertical Microstructure Profilers within National Marine Facilities (NMF) (B.Platt) NOC.UK

Thursday 22nd June 2023

• Dredging for Rocks (J. Manger) SCRIPPS. USA
• The NSF Marine Rock and Sediment Sampling Facility (P. Walczak) OREGON STATE UNIV. USA
• OBS clock synchronization from ambient seismic noise. (R. Cabieces). ROA. SPAIN
• Fix and Mobile Platforms for Real Time Data (S.Andrade) ALAKALUF. CHILE
• Origin ADCPs – Delivering in situ customization, optimization and access (M. Barnett) SONARDYNE
• Seatex Products (J.L. Guilabert) KONGSBERG DISCOVERY
• NSF’s Regional Class Research Vessels: Technology Overview (D. Baley) OREGON STATE UNIV. USA
• Unique challenges of operating in Polar Regions. (E. Roth). UNIV. ALASKA. USA
• Falkor (Too)- A New Global Research Vessel (S.Alesandrini). SCHMIDT OCEAN. USA
• Fish out of water: Options for moving your vehicle to and from deck (J. Koch) UNIV HAWAII
• HUGIN family / USV (A. Gran) KONGSBERG DISCOVERY
• UNOLS – Shared resources across an extended Fleet (A. Doyle) UNOLS. USA

Posters 

1. Science capabilities of Vessels operated by WHOI (S.Fuller) WHOI.USA
2. ADCP Troubleshooting Operation (A. Heather) WHOI.USA
3. Ruggedized Demersal Trawl Net Mounted SBE19 Plus V2 CTD System (H.Engel). DFFE. SOUTH AFRICA
4. Compact Winch Handling System. (T.Ringstadt). ENTEC. NORWAY
5. A tale of two ships. (M. Worship). DFFE. SOUTH AFRICA
6. UTM-CSIC Data Service CDI Generator (E.Martínez) UTM-CSIC. SPAIN
7. Lander Deployment System (D. Huijsman) NIOZ. NETHERLANDS
8. 3D-T: Half a cubic hectometer mooring array of 3000 temperature sensors in the deep sea (R.Bakker) NIOZ. NL
9. The UNOLS Community (A. Doyle) UNOLS. USA
10. Development of a Low-Cost Deep-Sea Advanced High Autonomy Time-Lapse Camera. (JM Rodríguez) IEO-CSIC. SPAIN
11. Continuous GNSS logging for future science research with RV ISABU, KIOST in transit (Y. Park, H. Sok Kim), KIOST. REPUBLIC OF KOREA
12. A Multisampler for mesopelagic nets (A. Castellón) UTM-CSIC. SPAIN
13. Eurofleets + Joint Research Activities: Equipment innovations for deep sea operations from vessels (A. Castellón) UTM- CSIC. SPAIN
14. A sensor robot for monitoring multiple units in a marine mesocosm setup (J. Goes) VLIZ. BELGIUM
15. Applicability of aquavoltaics in an offshore multi-use setting in the Adriatic Sea (N.Vladimir) FBS.CROATIA
16. Fix and Mobile Platforms for Real Time Data (S.Andrade) ALAKALUF. CHILE
17. Highlighting the decommissioning of R/V Oceanus, including how used sensors were distributed to the US Academic Research Fleet, and how ship cyber infrastructure is now used for training on land. (S. Richards). OREGON STATE UNIV. USA
18. Research Vessel Based Hydrophone-Array Applications. (J.Guo) OCEANSONICS. CANADA
19. ASED – Acoustic Sediment Meter (Y.De Hoo) NIOZ. NETHERLANDS

WORKSHOPS & DEMOS

WORKSHOP 1: MAC ASSESSMENT TOOLS

Kevin Jerram (CCOM-UNH / JHC)

Giuseppe Masetti (CCOM-UNH/JHC & Danish Hydrographic Office)

This workshop with the Multibeam Advisory Committee will demonstrate software tools for assessing multibeam hardware health and performance. The MAC will highlight examples of common challenges experienced in recent Sea Acceptance and Quality Assurance Testing. Technicians are invited to bring questions to the workshop for discussion, provide data examples from recent field programs

up, and share their expertise through the Ocean Mapping Community Wiki https://mac.unols.org/resources/

WORKSHOP 2: SHIPBOARD ADCP PROCESSING WITH CODAS, TUTORIAL

Jules Hummon (Univ. Hawaii- UH Currents Group)

Andrew Frambach (Univ. Hawaii – UH Currents Group)

This tutorial will introduce the open-source shipboard ADCP processing software, “CODAS”, developed at the University of Hawaii. Examples of data processing using VmDAS LTA (STA) and ENR data will be shown, along with editing, calibration, and visualization. Participants are not expected to download any software prior to this tutorial. Documentation for CODAS is here: https://currents.soest.hawaii.edu/docs/adcp_doc/index.html

WORKSHOP 3: Marine Facilities Planning working group (MFP)

Miguel Angel Ojeda (UTM-CSIC)

This workshop will deal with the use MFP (Marine Facilities Planning) by marine technicians and how this tool could help them with the daily tasks such instrument logistics, personnel logistic and cruise organization.

WORKSHOP 4: OCEANSONICS

Jackie Gou (OCEANSONICS)

This workshop will be focused on the Basics of hydrophone: hardware, software and field

development tips. Hydrophone applications. Case studies on deploying hydrophone (arrays) to get best acoustic data from the following development platforms /Research vessels, Buoy, ROV, Glider, AUV, Seabed Mounted lander). SATURN and also a case study on Underwater Noise from vessel, to develop ISO standard on URN