Editor's note

Antonio Manuel Lázaro

Conformity of the quality in the measures

Albert García Benadí, David Palmero Jiménez, Eva Vaqué i Carbonell, Antonio Manuel Lázaro

Design and deployment of Low-Cost Drifting Buoys for coastal monitoring applications

Francisco J. Gutiérrez, Gabriel Navarro, Raúl García, David Roque, Javier Ruiz

Conductivity cell for water quality monitoring

Ramalho Sérgio, Helena Geirinhas Ramos, Pedro Ramos

Decorative PVD coatings as an enviromentally clean alternative to chrome plating

Josep Anton Picas Barrachina, Maite Baile Puig, Antonio Forn Alonso

Cabling, connectors and splices structure for the OBSEA. Expandable subsea observatory.

Josep Santamaria Català, Marc Nogueras Cervera, Antonio Manuel Lázaro

Watertight tests for OBSEA equipments in the hyperbaric chamber

Normandino Carreras Pons, Marc Nogueras Cervera, Alejandro Arbós Martos, Antonio Manuel Lázaro

Power supply control of the OBSEA seafloor observatory

Xavier Palou, Marc Nogueras Cervera, Antonio Manuel Lázaro

Smart sensors monitoring nodes and GIS for dolphins' environment assessment

Octavian Postolache, J. Apolonia, N. Beirante, Miguel Pereira, P. Girao

Experimental electronic instrument for a hydraulic towing winch

Perfecto Mariño Espiñeira, Fernando Machado, Francisco Poza

A permanent submarine observatory in alboran and the long term OBS fomar Network. news.

Antonio Pazos, José Martín Davila, Vicenta María Elisa Buforn Peiró, Agustín Udías Vallina

Tempo-Mini: A Custom-designed instrument for real-time monitpring of hydrothermal vent ecosystems

Yves Auffret, Jean-Yves Coail, Laurent Delauney, Julien Legrand, Jacky Dupont, Loic Dussud, Gérard Guyader, Anthony Ferrant, Stéphane Barbot, Agathe Laes, Karen Bucas, Jozée Sarrazin, Pierre-Marin Sarradin

The NEMO project status

Mario Sedita, Rosanna Cocimano

Time stability of ocean bottom seismometers (OBS)

Shahram Shariat Panahi, Antonio Manuel Lázaro, Francisco Corrêa Alegría

Underwater seismometer validation

F. Xavier Roset i Juan, Marc Nogueras Cervera, Albert García Benadí

Data communication and control systems implementation in the OBSEA

Carola Artero Delgado, Marc Nogueras Cervera, Juan José Dañobeitia Canales, Antonio Manuel Lázaro

Pressure hull design and construction of the manned submersible Ictineu 3

Alex Alcocer, Pere Forès, Gian Piero Giuffré, Carme Parareda, Adrià Roca, Josep Roca

Ant colony optimized planning for unmanned surface marine vehicles

J.M. Benítez, Juan F. Jiménez, Jose M. Girón-Sierra

Autonomous vehicle development for vertical submarine observation

Spartacus Gomáriz Castro, Jordi Prat Tasies, Alejandro Arbós Martos, O. Pallares, C. Viñolo

Fault tolerant actuation for dorado class, AUVS.

William Kirkwood, Anderson Will, Christopher Kitts

Small scale underwater change detection

O. Delaunoy, N. Gracias, R. Garcia

Trinocular ystem for 3D motion and dense structure estimation

Ricard Campos, Jordi Ferrer, Miquel Villanueva, Lluis Magí, Rafael garcia

Towards the ecological dredger

Sergio Rodríguez, Alberto Lago, Aritz Villodas, Artzai Picón

Paleoseismology of active faults based on multiscale seismic imaging

Ximena Moreno, Eulàlia Gràcia i Mont, Rafael Bartolomé, Claudio Lo Iacono

Ocean monitoring using GNSS-R techniques and microwave radiometry: The pau instrument concept

Adriano Camps, Xavier Bosch, Isaac Ramos Pérez, Juan Fernando Marchan Hernandez, Enric Valencia Domènech, Nereida Rodriguez Alvarez

Sea-Ice remote sensing with GNSS reflections

Estel Cardellach, María Belmonte Rivas, Fran Fabra, Oleguer Nogués Correig, Santiago Oliveras, Serni Ribó

Preparing levels 3 and 4 for the SMOS mission

Jerôme Gourrion, Baptiste Mourre, Joaquim Ballabrera, Alfredo López de Aretxabaleta, Antonio Turiel

Post-processing methods for ocean monitoring fro SAR imagery

Mª Victoria Tello Alonso, Carlos López Martínez, Jordi Joan Mallorquí Franquet, Francisco J. López Dekker

SMOS: ESA'S Water Mission

Jordi Font, Francesc Torres Torres

Issues in the balancing of the SMOS ocean salinity trieval cost function

Roberto Sabia, Adriano Camps, Marcos Portabella, Marco Talone, Joaquim Ballabrera, Jêrome Gourrion, Alfredo López de Aretxabaleta, C. Gabarró, Jordi Font

ASCAT Scatterometer wind data processing

Marcos Portabella, Ad Stoffelen, María Belmonte Rivas, Anton Verhoef, Jeroen Verspeek, Jur Vogelzang

HF radar monitoring initiative in Barcelona coastline: currents and wave measurements

Neus Tarafa Güell, Jordi Velo Pitarch, Vicente Fernández López

The diagonal of the transform: Computationand meaning

Carine Simón, Juan José Dañobeitia Canales, Antonio Manuel Lázaro

Principal component analysis to compress acquired data offshore

Juan Luis Larrabe Barrena, Miguel Ángel Gómez Solaetxe, Francisco José Álvarez, Elena Gastiasoro, M.Carmen Rey

A software for time series analysis of nortek instruments: TSA_NORTEK_V1

Águeda Vázquez, Miguel Bruno, Rafel Mañanes, Oswaldo López, José Manuel Quijano, Juan Ramón Conforto

New methodological approach to estimate the turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate

Rubén Quesada López, M. Lara, Jaume Piera Fernández, E. Berdalet

Time-scale slowness adaptive filters

Sergi Ventosa Rahuet, Carine Simón, M. Schimmel, Juan José Dañobeitia Canales

An evaluation of soil moisture downscaling techniques using L.Band Airbone observations

María Piles, Mercè Vall·llossera Ferran, Adriano José Camps Carmona, Marco Talone

Colour calibration for quantitative biological analysis: A novel automated multivariate approach.

Corrado Costa, Federico Pallotino, Claudio Angelini, Marco Proietti, Fabrizio Capoccioni, Jacopo Aguzzi, Francesca Antonucci, Paolo Menesatti

Otolith growth allometry measurements in the european EEL

Fabrizio Capoccioni, Corrado Costa, Paolo Menesatti, Antonio Lombarte, Jacopo Aguzzi, E. Ciccotti

Potential applications of automated video-image analysis in the pelagic and demersal environtment including the deep-sea

Jacopo Aguzzi, Corrado Costa, Paolo Menesatti, Antonio Manuel Lázaro, Joaquín del Río Fernández

Application of geometric-morphometric, hypersdectral imaging and molecular makers to the study of depth-driven diferences in populations of decapods (crustacea)

Jacopo Aguzzi, Corrado Costa, Juan Batista Company, Francesca Antonucci, Federico Pallotino, Paolo Menesatti, Emiliano Canali, Stefano Giorgi, Claudio Angelini, Valerio Ketmaier

Operational Observatory of the catalan sea (OOCS)

A. Cruzado, N. Bahamón, R. Bernadello, M.A. Ahumada, D. Donis, G. Cardoso

Potential support vector machines for phytoplankton fluorescence spectra classification: comparison with self-organizing maps.

Ismael F. Aymerich, Jaume Piera Fernández, Johannes Mohr, Aureli Soria-Frisch, Klaus Obermayer

Robust and accurate monitoring of Guadalquivir estuary waters: a high-resolution and low-maintenance system for water quality and hydrodynamics

Francisco J. Gutiérrez, Gabriel Navarro, David Roque, Raúl García, Jose Luis Fernández, Miguel Ángel Losada, Javier Ruiz

A multilayer service data acquisition and operation system for oceanographic ships and instrumentation networks

E. Arilla, D. Afonso, O. Garcia, A. Hernández, J. Olivé, J.L. Ruiz, X. Romero, A. Sandoval, J.A. Serrano, Jordi Sorribas, Enric Trullols Farreny, Joaquín del Río Fernández

Evaluation of MBari puck protocol for interoperable ocean observatories

Joaquín del Río Fernández, Tom O'Reilly, Kent Headley, Duane Edgington, Daniel Toma, Jesper Zedlitz, Frank Johnson, Greg Johnson, Eric Davis, Klaus Schleisiek, Cater Neil, Reo Phillips, Eric Delory, Christoph Waldman

Obsea web: Design and implementation

Alberto Hidalgo Castro, Iris Santamaria Motis, Josep Santamaria Català

An on-board data management solution

E. Tel, J. Rivera, JM Cabanas, JM Vazquez, S Carballo, R. Minguelez, M. Gallardo, C. Amutio

Geographic information system architecture appplied to oceanographic data acquisition systems

J. Olivé, E. Arilla, D. Afonso, O. Garcia, A. Hernández, J.L. Ruiz, X. Romero, A. Sandoval, J.A. Serrano, Jordi Sorribas

Obsea servers network

Francisco Javier Cadena Muñoz, Marc Nogueras Cervera, Alberto Hidalgo Castro, Jordi Sorribas, Oscar García

Satellite communication systems onboard two spanish oceanografic vessels

D. Afonso, E. Arilla, O. Garcia, A. Hernández, J. Olivé, J.L. Ruiz, X. Romero, A. Sandoval, J.A. Serrano, Jordi Sorribas

Smart sensor interface for sea bottom observatories

Joaquín del Río Fernández, Yves Auffret, Daniel Mihai Toma, Shahram Shariat Panahi, Xavier André, Stéphane Barbot, Eric Menut, Yannick Lenault, Antonio Manuel Lázaro, Oussama Kassem Zein, Joel Champeau, Dominique Kerjean

Electronic upgrades on the second generation of an autonomous and portable cetacean auditory screening system

Àlex Mas, Joan Vicent Castell Balaguer, Joaquín del Río Fernández, Mike van der Schaar, Michel André

Modeling the underwater noise associated to the construction and operation of offshore wind turbines

Joan Vicent Castell Balaguer, Mike van der Schaar, Àlex Mas, Serge Zaugg, Ludwig Houegnigan, Maria Morell, Marta Solé, Michel André

A 3D real-time algorithm based on array processing for the localization of cetaceans

Ludwig Houegnigan, Serge Zaugg, Mike van der Schaar, Michel André

Imaging techniques to study the effects of low frequency sounds on cephalopods spp.

Marta Solé, Antonio Lombarte, Manel López Bejar, Àlex Mas, Michel André

Cetacean ultrastructural cochlear imaging through scanning electron microscopy

Maria Morell, Marc Lenoir, Jean-Luc Puel, Thierry Jauniaux, Eduard Degollada, Michel André

Architecture for the real-time monitoring of noise pollution and marine mammal activity

Mike van der Schaar, Serge Zaugg, Ludwig Houegnigan, Joan Vicent Castell Balaguer, Michel André