Publications

Our key publications

Research outputs

3D visual mapping and in situ plasma spectroscopy for seabed survey

Blair Thornton, 2018

Type: conference

Learning in the deep: combining machine learning and automated deep-sea photography

Jennifer Walker, Blair Thornton, Adam Prugel-Bennett, Veerle Huvenne & Henry Ruhl, 2018

Type: conference

Quantitative methods for compensation of matrix effects in LIBS signals of solids

Tomoko Takahashi & Blair Thornton, 2017, Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy, 138, 31-42

DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2017.09.010

Type: article

Generation of high‐resolution three‐dimensional reconstructions of the seafloor in color using a single camera and structured light

Adrian Bodenmann, Blair Thornton & Tamaki Ura, 2017, Journal of Field Robotics, 34(5), 833–851

DOI: 10.1002/rob.21682

Type: article

Continuous growth of hydrogenetic ferromanganese crusts since 17 Myr ago on Takuyo-Daigo Seamount, NW Pacific, at water depths of 800-5500 m

Akira Usui, Keisuke Nishi, Hisaaki Sato, Yoshio Nakasato, Blair Thornton, Teruhiko Kashiwabara, Ayaka Tokumaru, Aya Sakagu, Kyoko Yamaoka, Shingo Kato, Shota Nitahara, Katsuhiko Suzuki, Koichi Iijima & Tetsuro Urabe, 2017, Ore Geology Reviews, 87, 71-87

DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.09.032

Type: article

Automatic extraction of thickness information from sub-surface acoustic measurements of manganese crusts

Umesh Neettiyah, Blair Thornton, Mehul Sangekar, Kazuo Ishii, Takumi Sato, Adrian Bodenmann & Tamaki Ura, 2017

DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2017.8084917

Type: conference

A real-time chemical analysis of rocks at the bottom of the deep-sea Development of a quantitative analytical method

Tomoko Takahashi, Blair Thornton, Takumi Sato, Toshihiko Ohki, Koichi Ohki & Tetsuo Sakka, 2017

DOI: 10.1299/jsmermd.2016.1A2-16b2

Type: conference