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Development and testing of an unmanned surface towing system for autonomous transport of multiple heterogeneous underwater vehicles for seafloor survey
Takeshi Ohki, Hitoshi Kakami, Yuya Nishida, Takeshi Nakatani & Blair Thornton, 2020, Marine Technology Society Journal, 54(5), 61-71
DOI: 10.4031/MTSJ.54.5.10
Type: article
Application of SeaXerocks on habitat mapping for the deep-sea megabenthos around cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts in Arnold Guyot of the northwestern Pacific - from the perspective of "whale's eye view"
A. Iguchi, R. Miwa, T. Koike, M. Ohhara, H. Sugishima, H. Yokooka, T. Fukuhara, M. Suzumura, A. Tsukasaki, Y. Tanaka, N. Iwasaki, B. Thornton, T. Fujii, S. Kato, Y. Igarashi, N. Okamoto & A. Suzuki, 2019
Type: conference
Unmanned diving machine, acoustic communication system, and program
Akihiko Nishitani, Junichi Kojima, Takeshi Nakatani, Takeshi Oki, Yuya Nishida & Blair Thornton, 2019
Type: patent
Deploying device for underwater vessel, towing device, deploying system for underwater vessel, and deploying method for underwater vessel
Kenji Nagahashi, Hiroyuki Fukushima, Hitoshi Kagami, Takeshi Oki, Takeshi Nakatani, Yuya Nishida, Blair Thornton, Kotohiro Masuda & Kazunori Nagano, 2019
Type: patent
Recovery device for underwater vessel, towing device, recovery system for underwater vessel, and recovery method for underwater vessel
Kenji Nagahashi, Hiroyuki Fukushima, Hitoshi Kagami, Takeshi Oki, Takeshi Nakatani, Yuya Nishida, Blair Thornton, Kotohiro Masuda & Kazunori Nagano, 2019
Type: patent
Development of elemental technologies for seafloor mineral processing of seafloor massive sulfides
Blair Thornton, Yasuharu Nakajima, Joji Yamamoto, Tomoko Takahashi, Yuta Yamabe, Gjergj Dodbiba & Toyohisa Fujita, 2019
DOI: 10.1115/OMAE2019-96040
Type: conference
Imaging techniques for surveys of gelatinous zooplankton: Holographs, shadowgraphs, laser scanning and 3D reconstructions
D. Lindsay, M. Hidaka, M. Sangekar, J. Nishikawa, R. Hopcroft, B. Thornton, H. Yamamoto & Y. Kawahito, 2019
Type: conference