TY - BOOK ID - 145923795 TI - Signals and Images in Sea Technologies AU - Moroni, Davide AU - Salvetti, Ovidio PY - 2021 PB - Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - Technology: general issues KW - passive sonar KW - weak target detection KW - robust Capon beamforming KW - large DOA mismatch KW - two-step steering vector estimation KW - free surface recording KW - waves KW - bubbles KW - PIV KW - wave flume experiments KW - Voronoi partition KW - mobile sensor networks KW - wireless sensor networks KW - environmental monitoring KW - marine environment KW - oil spills KW - ship KW - navigation systems KW - dynamic positioning KW - signal filtering KW - signal processing KW - time-frequency representation KW - Kalman filter KW - estimation KW - directional wave spectra KW - distributed jamming technology KW - layout strategy KW - underwater acoustic sensor networks KW - Cramér-Rao bound KW - underwater image enhancement KW - Multi-Scale Retinex KW - parameter optimization KW - no reference image quality assessment UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:145923795 AB - Life below water is the 14th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) envisaged by the United Nations and is aimed at conserving and sustainably using the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development. It is not difficult to argue that signals and image technologies may play an essential role in achieving the foreseen targets linked to SDG 14. Besides increasing the general knowledge of ocean health by means of data analysis, methodologies based on signal and image processing can be helpful in environmental monitoring, in protecting and restoring ecosystems, in finding new sensor technologies for green routing and eco-friendly ships, in providing tools for implementing best practices for sustainable fishing, as well as in defining frameworks and intelligent systems for enforcing sea law and making the sea a safer and more secure place. Imaging is also a key element for the exploration of the underwater world for various scopes, ranging from the predictive maintenance of sub-sea pipelines and other infrastructure projects, to the discovery, documentation, and protection of sunken cultural heritage. The scope of this Special Issue encompasses investigations into techniques and ICT approaches and, in particular, the study and application of signal- and image-based methods and, in turn, exploration of the advantages of their application in the previously mentioned areas. ER -