Robust, scalable simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms support the
successful deployment of robots in real‐world applications. In many cases these platforms …

Advancing the sustainable use and conservation of marine environments is urgent. Tons of
debris including macro-and microplastics generated on land are entering the oceans …

This paper describes insights gained from a decade of autonomous marine systems
development at the University of Sydney's Australian Centre for Marine Robotics. Over the …

Marine ecosystems provide critically important goods and services to society, and hence
their accelerated degradation underpins an urgent need to take rapid, ambitious and …

In this paper we present the LoCO AUV, a Low-Cost, Open Autonomous Underwater
Vehicle. LoCO is a general-purpose, single-person-deployable, vision-guided AUV, rated to …

A new algorithm called the Mondrian detector has been developed for object detection in
high-frequency synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imagery. If a second (low) frequency-band …

Abstract Temperate Mesophotic Ecosystems (TMEs) are stable habitats, usually dominated
by slow-growing, long-lived sessile invertebrates and sciaphilous algae. Organisms …

Cold-water coral (CWC) mounds are biogenic, long-lived morphostructures composed
primarily by scleractinian CWC's and hemipelagic sediments that form complex deep-sea …

Object detection tasks for sonar image confront two major challenges, scarcity of dataset and
perturbation of noise, which cause overfitting to models. The state-of-the-art object detection …

What is benthic habitat mapping, how is it accomplished, and how has that changed over
time? We query the published literature to answer these questions and synthesize the …