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Thornton Blair - Mapping in the Background: Seafloor Imaging using Fleets of Low-Cost Benthic Drifters

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Lead researchers

Professor Blair Thornton

Professor of Marine Autonomy
Research interests
  • seafloor 3D visual reconstruction: development of deep-sea imaging hardware and processing pipelines for calibration, localisation and 3D mapping of the seafloor with full-field uncertainty characterisation 
  • automated interpretation of data: development of AI methods for rapid scalable interpretation of seafloor imagery
  • robotics: development of low-cost, long endurance seafloor imaging floats and highly intelligent and manoeuvrable robotic imaging platform for visual survey of complex environments
Connect with Blair

Email: B.Thornton@soton.ac.uk

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