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Priorities for Future Development
Pages 70-75

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... Oil and gas deposits on shore are being increasingly depleted. Fish and other renewable ocean resources require more intensive monitoring and regulation, as commercial fish stocks are more heavily exploited to feed growing world populations; sustainable development requires better knowledge of the fish populations and their ecological relations.
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From page 71...
... Development Projects to Support Undersea Vehicle Advances Identifying Development Priorities Table 4-1 lists the key vehicle subsystems reviewed in Chapter 2 and summarizes the committee's evaluation of how improvements in each subsystem technology are likely to affect the overall performance of each of the three major classes of vehicle. The committee classified the subsystem technologies as "critical" (improvement would enable important new vehicle capabilities)
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From page 72...
... The committee's intent was to set broad priorities among the major vehicle subsystem technologies to provide general guidance for the allocation of research and development funds. Results: Critical Subsystems with the Greatest Potential for Improving Vehicle Performance The committee finds that three subsystem technology development areas offer the greatest potential for significantly improving the most-needed undersea vehicle data-gathering capability and task performance over the coming 5 to 10year period: ocean sensors, undersea communications, and mission and task-performance control.
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From page 73...
... These efforts should include faulttolerant mission logic, layered control architecture, virtualpresence operator interfaces, and object-based, task-level control. Results: Other Critical Subsystems with High Potential for Improving Vehicle Performance The committee has also determined that there are other critical areas of ocean-unique technology with high potential for improving undersea vehicle performance.
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From page 74...
... The main development goals are improved sensors, guidance and control, navigation, and data processing, as well as higher reliability. Rapid advances in the technology of data processing and control raise the important possibility of hybrid AUVs, with communication links (either acoustic or fiber-optic)
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From page 75...
... They will see increasingly wide applications, paralleling the increasing human dependence on the ocean and its resources. These applications will include offshore oil and gas development and support of operations, telecommunications cable work, and search and recovery missions.
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Key Terms

  • undersea vehicle
  • vehicle performance
  • data processing
  • law enforcement
  • subsystem technologies

  • sampling devices
  • vehicle capabilities
  • data storage
  • mission logic
  • critical subsystems

  • chemical species
  • quantitative information
  • improving vehicle
  • physical sampling
  • user interface

  • sonar performance
  • improved sensors
  • pollution detection
  • subsystem technology
  • offshore oil

  • human operators
  • ocean sensors
  • overall performance
  • vehicle development
  • physical samples

  • vehicle programs
  • enforcement agencies
  • wide levels
  • advanced guidance
  • plate tectonics


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