S3: New technologies

(G. Meinecke et al., Bremen)

During the past decade the increasing use of advanced sampling techniques in the marine geosciences is clearly obvious. The use of remote and autonomous vehicles is in demand by scientific users in order to perform the required quality of scientific experiments in the ocean and at the seafloor. Powerful remotely operated vehicles have the ability to place video-controlled heavy instruments directly on scientific target locations; manipulators can control and operate the experiments and the HDTV cameras can monitor the experiment in perfect quality. The intention of this short course will be to focus on these specific types of vehicles and platforms, for instance ROV, AUV, Remotely Operated Drill and Crawler. It is planned to report the fundamental status of different kinds of vehicles, but also to illustrate the potential in their scientific use. In addition, even the consequences of the use of these advanced techniques in terms of demands for the crew and carrier systems will be explained briefly.