Mapping Waves with an Uncrewed Surface Vessel via Gaussian Process Regression

Thomas M. C. Sears,M. Riley Cooper,Joshua A. Marshall,Thomas M. C. Sears,M. Riley Cooper,Joshua A. Marshall

Mobile robots are well suited for environmental surveys because they can travel to any area of interest and react to observations without the need for pre-existing infrastructure or significant setup time. However, vehicle motion constraints limit where and when measurements occur. This is challenging for a single vehicle observing a time-varying phenomenon, such as coastal waves, but the ability ...