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The Impact of Side-Scan Sonar Resolution and Acoustic Shadow Phenomenon on the Quality of Sonar Imagery and Data Interpretation Capabilities

Remote Sensing, 2023
Side-scan sonar is designed and used for a variety of survey work, in both military and civilian fields. These systems provide acoustic imageries that play a significant role in a variety of marine and inland applications.
Artur Grządziel
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Post‐Release Mortality of European Bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) Discarded From Small‐Scale Estuarine Fishing

Fisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Estuaries provide essential habitats for many fish species, but their confined and accessible nature may increase fish vulnerability to capture, and few empirical studies have quantified the value of restricting net fisheries in such areas.
J. E. Stewart, T. Stamp, P. Davies, A. Hall, T. Robbins, L. Stewart, E. V. Sheehan   +6 more
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Finite Element Simulation of Amphora Dispersion in the 4th Century BC Shipwreck off the Island of Žirje, Croatia: A Case Study in Maritime Archaeology

Heritage
This study presents a finite element-based numerical simulation of a shipwreck scenario at the 4th-century BC underwater archaeological site near the island of Žirje, integrating engineering analysis with archaeological interpretation.
Šimun Sviličić, Smiljko Rudan, Irena Radić Rossi   +2 more
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Historic Wooden Shipwrecks Influence Dispersal of Deep-Sea Biofilms

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Wood arrives on the seabed from natural and anthropogenic sources (e.g., wood falls and wooden shipwrecks, respectively) and creates seafloor habitats for macro-, meio- and microbiota.
Rachel D. Moseley, Justyna J. Hampel, Rachel L. Mugge, Leila J. Hamdan   +3 more
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Unexpected Encounters in Island Worlds: Interactions Between ROC/Taiwan Fishers and Chinese Diaspora Communities in the 20th‐Century Pacific

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Researchers have examined how the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) cultivated relations with Chinese diaspora communities to secure recognition of their government as the true homeland of the Chinese people. However, less attention has been paid to how accidental and contingent encounters between communities ...
Jess Marinaccio
wiley   +1 more source

Le Journal de Hendrik Hamel en Corée (1668) : Un savoir accidentel

Viatica, 2017
Surprisingly, it is thanks to a shipwreck that new knowledge about Korea, a country closed to Europeans, was constituted. Indeed, Hendrik Hamel, who ran aground on the coast of Cheju in 1653, where he remained a prisoner for thirteen years, wrote on the ...
Alain Génétiot
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We All Live in a Virtual Submarine [PDF]

, 2010
Our seas and oceans hide a plethora of archaeological sites such as ancient shipwrecks that, over time, are being destroyed through activities such as deepwater trawling and treasure hunting.
Bale, Kim, Chapman, Paul, Drap, Pierre
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Tudor England and Stewart Scotland Through Spanish Eyes: A Complete Transcription and Translation of Pedro de Ayala's Letter of 1498 to King Ferdinand of Castile and Queen Isabella of Aragon

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a letter, partly in cipher, to report to his king and queen on such matters as Spain's interests in international diplomacy; the characters and ...
Adrian William Jaime, Valeria Tapia Cruz, Mairi Cowan   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing a GIS-Database and Risk Index for Potentially Polluting Marine Sites [PDF]

, 2012
The increasing availability of geospatial marine data provides an opportunity for hydrographic offices to contribute to the identification of “Potentially Polluting Marine Sites” (PPMS).
Alexander, Lee, Calder, Brian R., Masetti, Giuseppe   +2 more
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Artifex Ars Cartographica: Collaboration Between Portuguese Painters and Cartographers in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
wiley   +1 more source