Oceanology: Proceedings of an international conference (Oceanology International 86), sponsored by the Society for Underwater Technology, and held in [Paperback]

I Navigation.- 1 Modern navigation and positioning techniques.- 2 Equipment for differential GPS.- 3 The application of fast parallel processing to enhance the performance of navigation systems.- 4 Comparisons of dynamic surface positioning systems.- II Environmental Observations.- 5 Oceanographic and remote sensed data bases at national and international level (not submitted for publication).- 6 A review of the ODAP project: 19801985.- 7 Wave measurements at North Atlantic weather stations India and Juliett in the 1970s.- 8 The advantages and problems of using acoustic Doppler current profilers in support of exploration drilling on the West Shetland Continental Shelf.- 9 Utilization of Service Argos for the remote monitoring of oceanographic data acquisition systems.- III Underwater Vehicle Applications.- 10 An advanced underwater towed vehicle for oceanographic measurements.- 11 Methods for reducing ship-induced attitude variations of passive towed bodies.- 12 Long-range underwater acoustic image transmitting system.- 13 Operational aspects of swimming and seabed crawling ROVs for search and salvage of lost dangerous cargo.- 14 The Arcs and Dolphin untethered remotely operated vehicles.- IV Environmental Modelling.- 15 Activities of the WAM (Wave Modelling) Group.- 16 On the application of MIROS data in ocean wave modelling.- 17 Estimating extreme still-water levels and currents offshore.- 18 A forecasting method of typhoon swell.- 19 Numerical wave models as a source of data for marine climatology.- V Geology/Geophysics/Geotechnics.- 20 A new opto-electronic technique for the measurement of seabed sand transport.- 21 RALPHNET: an underwater local area network.- 22 The Benigraph System: results of field trials.- 23 Two-ship undershooting of aproduction platform.- 24 A three-component ocean bottom microprocessor-based seismometer.- VI Wave Directionality.- 25 The wavescan second generation directional wave buoy: from design concepts to field testing.- 26 Fielc*