Chris Roman, GSO : Publications

Journal Publications

2011 C. Roman, D. Hebert, ``Concept Tests for a New Wire Flying Vehicle Designed to Achieve High Horizontal Resolution Profiling in Deep Water", J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 28, 1657–1671. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-10-05040.1

2011 C. Roman, G. Inglis and B. McGilvray, "Lagrangian floats as sea floor imaging platforms", Continental Shelf Research, V31 number 15, pp. 1592-1598, doi:10.1016/j.csr.2011.06.019 doi:10.1016/j.csr.2011.06.019 [pdf]

2010 C. Roman and R. Mather, "Autonomous underwater vehicles as tools for deep-submergence archaeology", Proc. IMechE Vol. 224 Part M: J. Engineering for the Maritime Environment, Number 4, pages 327-340 2010

2010 D. L. Valentine, C. M. Reddy, C. Farwell1, T. M. Hill, O. Pizarro, D. Yoerger, R. Camilli, R. K. Nelson, E. E. Peacock, B. A. Clarke, C. Roman, and M. Soloway, ``Asphalt Volcanoes as a Potential Source of Methane to Late Pleistocene Coastal Waters'', Nature Geosciences, V3, pp. 345 - 348.

2010 B. Bingham, B. Foley, R. Camilli, R. Eustice, D. Kourkoumelis, A. Mallios, D. Mindell, C. Roman, D. Sakellariou, H. Singh and T. Theodoulou, "Robotic tools for deep water archaeology: Surveying an ancient shipwreck with an autonomous underwater vehicle." Journal of Field Robotics, 2010. V27, number 6 pp. 702-717.

2009 Kunz, C. and Murphy, C. and Singh, H. and Pontbriand, C. and Sohn, R. and Singh, S. and Sato, T. and Roman, C. and Nakamura, K. and Jakuba, M. and Eustice, R. and Camilli R. and Bailey, J. "Toward extraplanetary under-ice exploration: Robotic steps in the Arctic". Journal of Field Robotics, 26(4):411-429, 2009. [pdf]

2009 Foley, B. and DellaPorta, K. and Sakellariou, D. and Bingham, B. and Camilli, R. and Eustice, R. and Evagelistis, D. and Ferrini, V. and Katsaros, K. and Kourkoumelis, D. and Mallios, A. and Micha, P. and Mindell, D. and Roman, C. and Singh, H. and Switzer D. and Theodoulou, T. "The 2005 Chios ancient shipwreck survey: New methods for underwater archaeology". Hesperia, 78:269-305, 2009. [pdf]

2008 Jakuba, M. and Roman, C. and Singh, H. and Murphy, C. and Kunz, C. and Willis, C and Sato, T and Sohn, R., Long-Baseline Acoustic Navigation for Under-Ice AUV Operations, Journal of Field Robotics, Vol 25(11-12), pages 861-879, 2008. [pdf]

2008 Ferrini, V.L. and M.K. Tivey and S. M. Carbotte and F. Martinez and C. Roman, Variable morphologic expression of volcanic, tectonic, and hydrothermal processes at six hydrothermal vent fields in the Lau back- arc basin, Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, Volume 9, July 2008.

2007 C. Roman and H. Singh, “A Self-Consistent Bathymetric Mapping Algorithm”, Journal of Field Robotics, Feb 2007, pages 26-51.

2007 H. Singh, C. Roman, O. Pizarro, R. Eustice, and A. Can, “Towards High-Resolution Imaging from Underwater Vehicles”, Interna- tional Journal Robotics Research, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 55-74, Jan. 2007 [pdf]

2006 R. A. Armstrong, H. Singh, J. Torres, R. S. Nemethc, A. Can, C. Ro- man, R. Eustice, L. Riggs, G. Garcia-Moliner, “Characterizing the deep insular shelf coral reef habitat of the Hind Bank marine conservation district (US Virgin Islands) using the Seabed autonomous underwater vehicle”, Continental Shelf Research 26 (2006) 194-205. [pdf]

2004 Singh, H., Armstrong, R., Gilbes, F., Eustice, R., Roman, C., Pizarro, O. and Torres, J., “Imaging Coral I: Imaging Coral Habitats with The SeaBED AUV”, The Journal for Subsurface Sensing Technologies and Applications, pp. 25-42, vol 5, no 1, January, 2004.

1998 Roman, C. and Reinholtz, C., “Robust Course-Boundary Extrac- tion Algorithms for Autonomous Vehicles” IEEE Intelligent Systems & Their Applications, Nov 1998, pp32-39

Conference papers

2011 Roman, C., Inglis, G., Tennant, C., McGilvray, B., ``Shallow water Lagrangian ﬂoats as versatile sensing and imaging platforms'', IROS 2011 Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring (WREM2011) pp. 1-6 [pdf]

2010 Roman, C., Inglis, G., Rutter, J., "Application of structured light imaging for high resolution mapping of underwater archaeological sites", IEEE OCEANS Sydney. [pdf]

2009 Inglis, G. and Roman, C. "Terrain constrained stereo correspondence", IEEE Oceans 2009, Biloxi Mississippi. [pdf]

2009 Schwithal, A. and Roman, C. "Development of a new Lagrangian float for studying coastal marine ecosystems", IEEE Oceans 2009, Bremen Germany. [pdf]

2008 Kunz, C. and Murphy, C. and Camilli, R. and Singh, H. and Eustice, R. and Roman, C. and Jakuba, M. and Willis, C. and Sato, T. and Nakamura, K. and Sohn, R., "Deep Sea Underwater Robotic Exploration in the Ice-Covered Arctic Ocean with AUVs", International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sept 2008 [pdf]

2007 Roman, C., Gregory, T., Martic, E., Sanguinetti, A. and Drummond, J. “Preliminary model tests for the design of a gliding deep water ele- vator” IEEE Oceans 2007, Oct 3-5 Vancouver BC.

2007 Roman, C. and Camilli, R. “Design of a gas tight water sampler for AUV operations” IEEE OES Oceans Europe 2007, June 19-21 Aberdeen Scotland.

2006 Roman, C. and Singh, H. “Consistency Based Error Evaluation for Deep Sea Bathymetric Mapping with Robotic Vehicles” IEEE Interna- tional Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2006, Orlando.

2005 Singh, H., Roman, C., Pizarro, O., and Eustice, R. “Advances in High Resolution Imaging from Underwater Vehicles” 12th International Symposium of Robotics Research, San Francisco, 2005 [pdf]

2005 Roman, C. and Singh, H., “Improved vehicle based multibeam bathymetry using sub-mapping and SLAM” IEEE Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS), 2005.

2004 Roman, C. and Singh, H., “Micro-bathymetric mapping using acoustic range images” IEEE OCEANS November 2004.

2002 H. Singh, R. Eustice, C. Roman, and O. Pizarro, “The SeaBED AUV – A Platform for High Resolution Imaging”. In Proceedings of Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Showcase, Southampton Oceanography Centre, UK, September 2002.

2001 Roman, C. and Singh, H., “Estimation of error in large area under- water photomosaics using vehicle navigation data”. OCEANS, 2001 MTS/IEEE Vol 3 Pages 1849-1853

2000 Roman, C., Pizarro, O., Eustice, R. and Singh, H., “A New Au- tonomous Underwater Vehicle for Imaging Research”, OCEANS 2000 IEEE, vol 1, pp 153-156

2000 Singh, H., Roman, C., Whitcomb, L. L. and Yoerger, D. R., “Advances in Fusion of High Resolution Underwater Optical and Acoustic Data” Proceedings, 2000 Int. Symposium on Underwater Technology, Tokyo Japan, pp 206-211

Scientific magazine articles

2012 Brennan, M., Davis, D., Roman, C., Buynevich, I., Catsambis, A., Kofahl, M., Merrigan, M., Tuzan, T., Duman, M., Urkmex, D., Vaughn, I., Turanli. T., ``Coastal Exploration of the Southern Black Sea off Eregli and Sinop, Turkey'', in Bell, K. L. C., Elliot, K., Martinez, C. and Fuller, S. eds. 2012 New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus and NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer 2011 Field Season. Oceanography 25(1), supplement, 72pp.

2012 Bell, K. C., Nomikou, P., Carey, S., Stathopoulou, E., Polymenakou, P., Godelitsas, A., Roman, C,. and Parks, M., ``Continued Exploration of the Santorini Volcanic Field and Cretan Basin, Aegean Sea'', in Bell, K. L. C., Elliot, K., Martinez, C. and Fuller, S. eds. 2012 New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus and NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer 2011 Field Season. Oceanography 25(1), supplement, 72pp.

2012 Carey, S., Bell, K. C., Maroni, M., Rosi, M., Baker, E., Roman, C., Pistolesi, M., Kelly, J., ``Submaine Volcanism in the Straits of Sicily'', in Bell, K. L. C., Elliot, K., Martinez, C. and Fuller, S. eds. 2012 New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus and NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer 2011 Field Season. Oceanography 25(1), supplement, 72pp.

2012 Roman, C., Inglis, G., Vaughn, I., Smart, C., Douillard, B., Williams, S., ``The Development of High-Resolution Seafloor Mapping Techiniques'', in Bell, K. L. C., Elliot, K., Martinez, C. and Fuller, S. eds. 2012 New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus and NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer 2011 Field Season. Oceanography 25(1), supplement, 72pp.

2011 C. Roman, G. Inglis, J. I. Vaughn, S. Williams, O. Pizarro, A. Friedman and D. Steinberg, "Development of High-Resolution Underwater Mapping Techniques", in Bell, K.L.C., and S.A. Fuller, eds. 2011. New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus 2010 Field Season. Oceanography 24(1), supplement, 40 pp. [pdf]

2011 S. Carey, K. L. Croff Bell, P. Nomikou, G. Vougioukalakis, C. Roman,K. Cantner, K. Bejelou, M. Bourbouli, and J. Fero Martin, "Exploration of the Kolumbo Volcanic Rift Zone", in Bell, K.L.C., and S.A. Fuller, eds. 2011. New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus 2010 Field Season. Oceanography 24(1), supplement, 40 pp. [pdf]

2011 T. Shank, S. Herrera, W. Cho, C. Roman, and K. L. Croff Bell, "Exploration of the Anaximander Mud Volcanoes", in Bell, K.L.C., and S.A. Fuller, eds. 2011. New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus 2010 Field Season. Oceanography 24(1), supplement, 40 pp. [pdf]

2011 M. L. Brennan, D. Coleman, C. Roman, T. Turanli, D. Davis, A. Catsambis, J. Moore, M. Merrigan, B. Bajdek, D. Whitesell and R. Ballard, "Maritime History of ANZAC Cove", in Bell, K.L.C., and S.A. Fuller, eds. 2011. New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus 2010 Field Season. Oceanography 24(1), supplement, 40 pp. [pdf]

2011 M. L. Brennan, T. Turanli, B. Buxton, K. L. Croff Bell, C. N. Roman, M. Kofahl, O. Koyagasioglu, D. Whitesell, T. Chamberlain, R. Sullivan and R. Ballard, "Landscape Imaging of the Southeast Aegean Sea", in Bell, K.L.C., and S.A. Fuller, eds. 2011. New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus 2010 Field Season. Oceanography 24(1), supplement, 40 pp. [pdf]

Presented posters and abstracts

2012 Cornillon. P., Farmer, D., Roman, C., Ginis, I., Grilli, S., ``An air-sea flux experiment for 2030'', Ocean Sciences 2012, Salt Lake City

2012 Croff Bell, K., Ballard, R. D., Coleman, D., Roman, C., Brenna, B., ``New Frontiers in Ocean Exploration: The E/V Nautilus Exploration Program'', Ocean Sciences 2012, Salt Lake City

2011 C. Roman, G. Inglis, C. Smart, I. Vaughn and S. Carey, ``High resolution sea floor bathymetry using high frequency multibeam sonar and structured light laser imaging", AGU Fall Meeting, OS11C-07, San Fransisco CA

2008 R. Ballard, B. Buxton, K. Croff, D. Coleman, M. Brennan, K. Cantne r, C. Roman, D. Piechota, D. Davis, A.Catsamis, S. Voronov, “B yzantium beneath the Black Sea, The Deepwater Investigation of Two Byzantine Shi pwrecks”, Archaeological Institute of America meeting, January 3-8 2007, Chica go IL. [pdf]

2006 C. Roman, V. Ferrini, “High-Resolution Mapping in Manus Basin”, AGU 2006, San Francisco.

2006 H. Sigurdsson, S. Carey, M. Alexandri, G. Vougioukalakis, K. Croff, C. Roman, et al, “Marine Investigations of Greece’s Santorini Volcanic Field”, EOS, Transactions of the AGU, vol 87, no 34, pp 337, 22 August 2006.

2005 C. Roman, R, Reves-Sohn. H. Singh, S. Humphris, “Self Consistent Bathymetric Mapping Using Sub-maps: Survey Results From the TAG Hydrothermal Structure” AGU 2005, San Francisco.

2005 V. Ferrini, D. Fornari, T. Shank, D. Kelly, M, Tivey, S. Carbotte, D. Glickson C. Roman, A. Sterling, “High-Resolution sonar surveying at the Ridge2000 Integrated Study Sites: techniques and strategies for improved microbathymetric mapping” Ridge2000 Workshop, 2005

2004 H. Singh, A. Can, R. Eustice, S. Lerner, N. McPhee, O. Pizarro, and C. Roman, “SeaBED AUV offers new platform for high-resolution imaging”, EOS, Transactions of the AGU, vol 85, no 31, pp 289,294- 295, August 2004.

2004 C. Roman, “Underwater Terrain Reconstruction Using Sonar Data Taken from Multiple Vantage Points” SLAM (Simultaneous Mapping and Localization) summer school Toulouse France,

2002 C. Roman, H. Singh, “Multiscalar, multisensor search and survey with hovering AUVs”, 2nd MIT Conference on Technology, Archeology and the Deep Sea, MIT, April, 2002. Invited Presentation.

2001 R. Eustice, O. Pizarro, C. Roman, and H. Singh. “UWIT: Underwater Image Toolbox and Mosaicking in Matlab”. CenSSIS Research and Industrial Collaboration Conference, Boston, MA, December 2001.

2001 H. Singh, R. Eustice, C. Roman, O. Pizarro, and N. McPhee. “A Short Summary of SeaBED and Some Data Highlights”. CenSSIS Research and Industrial Collaboration Conference, Boston, MA, December 2001.

Student Posters

2011 G. Inglis, C. Smart, C. Roman and S. Carey, ``Detection of diffuse sea floor venting using structured light imaging", AGU Fall Meeting, OS11B-1473, San Fransisco CA [pdf]

2011 C. Smart, D. P. Whitesell, C. Roman and S. Carey, ``Remote Analysis of Grain Size Characteristic in Submarine Pyroclastic Deposits from Kolumbo Volcano, Greece", AGU Fall Meeting, OS13A-1501, San Fransisco CA [pdf]

2011 G. Inglis, I. Vaughn, C. Smart, and C. Roman, "Development of high resolution sea floor mapping tools and techniques", Discovery @ URI Research, Scholarship and Innovation, April [pdf]

2010 G. Inglis and C. Roman, ``Terrain constrained stereo correspondence'', IEEE OCEANS Sydney, May 2010

2010 B. McGilvray and C. Roman, ``Control System Performance and Efficiency for a Mid-Depth Lagrangian Profiling Float'', IEEE OCEANS Sydney, May 2010

Book chapters

2008 "Archaeological Oceanography", R. Ballard editor. Section on seafloor mapping.