THESAURUS: Techniques for Underwater Exploration and Archeology through Swarms of Autonomous Vehicles
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2011
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
The THESAURUS project (2011-2013) is financed by Regione Toscana (Italy) in the framework of the FAS program 2007-2013 under Deliberation CIPE (Italian government) 166/2007. The overall goal of THESAURUS project is to develop multidisciplinary methodologies and technologies to detect, catalogue and document underwater artifacts and wreckage with archaeological and ethno-anthropological value. In particular, specially designed Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) will be used to systematically explore the sea floor in a cooperative way, by collecting and analyzing in real time heterogeneous data from acoustic, optical and magnetic sensors with the aim of promptly detecting objects of interest. Data recorded from AUVs missions will also be analyzed and integrated off-line, by building large-scale sea-floor maps and 3D reconstructions for granting virtual access to underwater sites.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:PE/VAST/VAST11S/013-016,
booktitle = {VAST: International Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology and Intelligent Cultural Heritage - Short and Project Papers},
editor = {Franco Niccolucci and Matteo Dellepiane and Sebastian Pena Serna and Holly Rushmeier and Luc Van Gool},
title = {{THESAURUS: Techniques for Underwater Exploration and Archeology through Swarms of Autonomous Vehicles}},
author = {Allotta, Benedetto and Caiti, Andrea and Tampucci, Marco and Cocco, Michele and Colombo, Carlo and Daviddi, Walter and Gualdesi, Lavinio and Monica, Denise La and Moroni, Davide and Pieri, Gabriele and Salvetti, Ovidio},
year = {2011},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-905673-86-9},
DOI = {10.2312/PE/VAST/VAST11S/013-016}
}