Special issue on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring

A special issue of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine

Introduction

Robotic systems are increasingly being utilised as fundamental data gathering tools by scientists allowing new perspectives and greater understanding of the planet and its environmental processes.  Today’s robots are already exploring our deep oceans, tracking harmful algal blooms and pollution spread, monitoring climate variables, and even studying remote volcanoes.

With increased awareness of the ability of robots to collect scientifically relavant information, new opportunities are arising for large-scale environmental monitoring that will push the frontiers of robotic and natural sciences. Addressing these opportunities will present significant challenges in field robotics research, stimulating new findings in the direction of robotic systems more able  to perceive, plan, move and actuate in natural environments.

These new environmental monitoring robots with increased autonomy, endurance, planning and sensing capabilities will be expected to interact in teams and within other data gathering networks for efficient and precise measurement of environmental processes at scales never before seen. This special issue in Robotics for Environmental Monitoring seeks contributions on recent developments and applications in key areas of the advancing field of environmental robotics.

Scope, description and more information

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

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Important dates
Call for papers September 16, 2010
Deadline for paper submission July 01, 2011
First review November 01, 2011
Final review December 01, 2011
Publication March 2012

Guest editors

Lino Marques

Guest editor

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