Best Practices Guide for AUV Polar Operations


Definitions

The following definitions are used on this site, and may have different meanings elsewhere.
AUV Autonomous Underwater Vehicle is an untethered, underwater vehicle which is programmed to carry out a pre-planned or supervised mission.
Hybrid Mission Ice-Based Mission with a termination at a ship, or vice-versa.
Ice Based Mission an AUV mission that originates from a hole in the ice and terminates at the same or another ice hole.
Sea-Based Mission an AUV mission which originates and terminates from a ship located near the ice shelf.

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