Centre for environmental sensing and intelligence
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Doctoral students
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Overview
Core competences of the centre are: • Underwater sensing in extreme environments including hydropower turbines,rivers, coastlines and glaciers. • Real-time signal processing for rugged andreliable multi-modal autonomous sensors. • Data-driven modeling and assimilation ofoutdoor sensor network data with numerical models. • Eco- and ethohydraulic sensing and modelling, with a focus on fish and hydropower. • Underwater multispectral cameras andautomated vision methods for detectionand tracking in adverse environments.
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2023
2022
2021
2020
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Teadusgrupiga seotud publikatsioonid
- Monoli, C., Fuentez-Perez, J. F., Cau, N., Capodaglio, P., Galli, M., Tuhtan, J. A. Land and underwater gait analysis using wearable IMU // IEEE sensors journal (2021) vol. 21, 9, p. 11192-11202.
https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2021.3061623 - Rätsep, M., Parnell, K. E., Soomere, T., Kruusmaa, M., Ristolainen, A., Tuhtan, J. A. Surface vessel localization from wake measurements using an array of pressure sensors in the littoral zone // Ocean engineering (2021) vol. 233, art. 109156.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2021.109156 - Garcia-Vega, A., Fuentes-Perez, J. F., Fukuda, S., Kruusmaa, M., Sanz-Ronda, F. J., Tuhtan, J. A. Artificial lateral line for aquatic habitat modelling: An example for Lefua echigonia // Ecological Informatics (2021) vol. 65, art. 101388.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101388 - Pauwels, I. S., Baeyens, R., Toming, G., Tuhtan, J. A. et al. Multi-species assessment of injury, mortality, and physical conditions during downstream passage through a large Archimedes hydrodynamic screw (Albert Canal, Belgium) // Sustainability (2020) vol. 12, 20, art. 8722, 25 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208722 - Kruusmaa, M., Gkliva, R., Tuhtan, J.A. et al. Salmon behavioural response to robots in an aquaculture sea cage // Royal Society open science (2020) vol. 7, 3, art. 191220, 14 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191220 - Tuhtan, J.A., Nag, S., Kruusmaa, M. Underwater bioinspired sensing: New opportunities to improve environmental monitoring // IEEE instrumentation & measurement magazine (2020) vol. 23, 2, p. 30-36.
https://doi.org/10.1109/MIM.2020.9062685 - Soom, J., Pattanaik, V., Leier, M., Tuhtan, J.A. Environmentally adaptive fish or no-fish classification for river video fish counters using high-performance desktop and embedded hardware // Ecological Informatics (2022) vol. 72, art. 101817, 14 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101817 - Alexander, A., Kruusmaa, M., Tuhtan, J.A. et al. Pressure and inertia sensing drifters for glacial hydrology flow path measurements // The cryosphere (2020) vol. 14, 3, p. 1009-1023.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-1009-2020 - Khan, A.H., Hussmann, K.R., Powalla, D., Hoerner, S., Kruusmaa, M., Tuhtan, J.A. An open 3D CFD model for the investigation of flow environments experienced by freshwater fish // Ecological Informatics (2022) vol. 69, art. 101652, 12 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101652 - Suran, S., Pattanaik, V., Kurvers, R., Hallin, C.A., De Liddo, A., Krimmer, R., Draheim, D. Building global societies on collective intelligence : challenges and opportunities // Digital government : research and practice (2022) vol. 3, 4, art. 31, p. 1-6.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3568169 - Miasayedava, L., McBride, K., Tuhtan, J.A. Automated environmental compliance monitoring of rivers with IoT and open government data // Journal of environmental management (2022) vol. 303, art. 114283, 10 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.114283 - Benigni, H., Schneider, J., Reckendorfer, W., Jaberg, H., Zenz, G., Tuhtan, J. Numerical simulation and experimental verification of downstream fish migration in a Kaplan turbine // IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science ; 774. : IOP Publishing Ltd, 2021. art. 012149.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/774/1/012149 - Rätsep, M., Parnell, K.E., Soomere, T., Kruusmaa, M., Ristolainen, A., Tuhtan, J.A. Using spectrograms from underwater total pressure sensors to detect passing vessels in a coastal environment // Journal of atmospheric and oceanic technology (2020) vol. 37, 8, p. 1353-1363 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-19-0192.1 - Tuhtan, J.A., Kruusmaa, M., Alexander, A., Fuentes-Perez, J.F. Multiscale change detection in a supraglacial stream using surface drifters // River Flow 2020 Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics (Delft, Netherlands, 7-10 July 2020): River Flow 2020, Online, 7-10 July 2020. London : CRC Press, 2020. p. 1483-1492.
https://doi.org/10.1201/b22619 - Fuentes-Pérez, J., Sanz-Ronda, F.J., Tuhtan, J.A. An open surface drifter for river flow field characterization // Sensors (2022) vol. 22, 24, art. nr. 9918.
https://doi.org/10.3390/s22249918 - Peious, S.A., Suran, S., Pattanaik, V., Draheim, D. Enabling sensemaking and trust in communities : an organizational perspective // iiWAS2021: The 23rd International Conference on Information Integration and Web Intelligence : November 29-December 1, 2021, Linz, Austria : proceedings. : Association for Computing Machinery, 2021. p. 95-103 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3487664.3487678 - Suran, S., Pattanaik, V., Draheim, D. CommunityCare : tackling mental health issues with the help of community // iiWAS2020 : The 22st International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services, November 30 - December 2, 2020, Chiang Mai, Thailand : [Proceedings]. New York : Association for Computing Machinery, 2020. art. 3429114, p. 377-382.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3428757.3429114 - Bensing, K., Tuhtan, J.A., Toming, G., Khan, A.H., Lehmann, B. Fish body geometry reduces the upstream velocity profile in subcritical flowing waters // Aquatic sciences (2022) vol. 84, 3, p. 1-14 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00027-022-00863-6 - Stoltz, U., Geiger, F., Tuhtan, J. A. Influence of operation modes and fish behavior on fish passage through turbines // IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science ; 774. : IOP Publishing Ltd, 2021. art. 012125.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/774/1/012125 - Costa, M.J., Godinho, F., Romao, F., Fuentes-Perez, J.F., Tuhtan, J., Pinheiro, A.N., Boavida, I. The relevance of fluid-body interactions for habitat selection of two Iberian cyprinids during hydropeaking // Proceedings 39th IAHR World Congress. : IAHR, 2022. p. 1454−1459.
https://doi.org/10.3850/IAHR-39WC2521711920221269 - Kruusmaa, M., Moktefi, A., Tuhtan, J. On the shoulders of giants : colourful argument trees for academic writing // Diagrammatic representation and inference : 11th International Conference, Diagrams 2020, Tallinn, Estonia, August 24–28, 2020 : proceedings. Cham : Springer, 2020. p. 520-524. (Lecture notes in computer science ; 12169, Lecture notes in artificial intelligence ; 12169).
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54249-8_48 - Tsubaki, R., Fuentes-Perez, J.F., Kawamura, S., Tuhtan, J.A., Sumitomo, K. Bedload transport measurement in a Japanese gravel river using synchronized hydrodynamic and hydroacoustic pressure sensing // River Flow 2020 Proceedings of the 10th Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics (Delft, Netherlands, 7-10 July 2020): River Flow 2020, Online, 7-10 July 2020. London : CRC Press, 2020. p. 1476-1482.
https://doi.org/10.1201/b22619 - Benigni, H., Schneider, J., Reckendorfer, W., Schiffer, J., Tuhtan, J., Leithner, S., Zenz, G., Meusburger, P. Numerical simulation and experimental verification of downstream fish migration in a bulb turbine // 31st IAHR Symposium on Hydraulic Machinery and Systems 26/06/2022 - 01/07/2022 Trondheim, Norway. Vol. 1079. : IOP Publishing Ltd, 2022. 10 p. : ill. (IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science).
https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1079/1/012101 - Boavida, I., Santos, J.M., Costa, M.J., Leite, R., Portela, M.M., Godinho, F., Leitao, P., Mota, R., Tuhtan, J., Pinheiro, A. The EcoPeak4Fish Project : an integrated approach to support self-sustaining fish populations downstream hydropower plants // Proceedings 39th IAHR World Congress. : IAHR, 2022. p. 1434-1438.
https://doi.org/10.3850/IAHR-39WC2521711920221160 - Ristolainen, A., Kalev, K., Tuhtan, J., Kuusik, A., Kruusmaa, M. Hydromorphological classification using synchronous pressure and inertial sensing // IEEE transactions on geoscience and remote sensing (2018) vol. 56, 6, p. 3222-3232 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2018.2795641 - Ristolainen, A., Tuhtan, J. A., Kruusmaa, M. Continuous, near-bed current velocity estimation using pressure and inertial sensing // IEEE sensors journal (2019) vol. 19, 24, p. 12398 - 12406 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2019.2937954 - Schmidt, M.B., Tuhtan, J.A., Schletterer, M. Hydroacoustic and pressure turbulence analysis for the assessment of fish presence and behavior upstream of a vertical trash rack at a run-of-river hydropower plant // Applied sciences (2018) vol. 8, 10, art. 1723, 20 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.3390/app8101723 - Muhammad, N., Fuentes-Perez, J.F., Tuhtan, J.A., Toming, G., Musall, M., Kruusmaa, M. Map-based localization and loop-closure detection from a moving underwater platform using flow features // Autonomous robots (2019) vol. 43, 6, p. 1419-1434 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10514-018-9797-3 - Fuentes-Pérez, J.F., Tuhtan, J.A., Eckert, M., Kruusmaa, M. et al. Hydraulics of vertical-slot fishways: nonuniform profiles // Journal of hydraulic engineering (2019) vol. 145, 2, p. 06018020-1 - 06018020-6 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)HY.1943-7900.0001565 - Schletterer, M., Kuzovlev, V.V., Zhenikov, Y.N, Tuhtan, J.A. et al. Fish fauna and fisheries of large European rivers: examples from the Volga and the Danube // Hydrobiologia (2018) vol. 814, 1, p. 45-60 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3370-5 - Fuentes-Perez, J.F., Meurer, C., Tuhtan, J.A., Kruusmaa, M. Differential pressure sensors for underwater speedometry in variable velocity and acceleration conditions // IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering (2018) Vol. 43, 2, p. 418-426 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1109/JOE.2017.2767786 - Tuhtan, J.A., Fuentes Perez, J.F., Toming, G., Schneider, M., Schwarzenberger, R., Schletterer, M., Kruusmaa, M. Man-made flows from a fish's perspective : autonomous classification of turbulent fishway flows with field data collected using an artificial lateral line // Bioinspiration & biomimetics (2018) vol. 13, 4, art. 046006, 17 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/aabc79 - Costa, M.J., Fuentes-Perez, J.F., Boavida, I., Tuhtan, J.A. et al. Fish under pressure : Examining behavioural responses of Iberian barbel under simulated hydropeaking with instream structures // PLoS ONE (2019) vol. 14, 1, art. e021111525, 25 p. : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211115 - Alfredsen, K., Haas, C., Tuhtan, J., Zinke, P. Brief Communication : mapping river ice using drones and structure from motion // The cryosphere (2018) vol. 12, 2, p. 627-633 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-627-2018 - Fuentes-Pérez, J.F., Eckert, M., Tuhtan, J.A., Ferreira, M.T., Kruusmaa, M., Branco, P. Spatial preferences of Iberian barbel in a vertical slot fishway under variable hydrodynamic scenarios // Ecological engineering (2018) vol. 125, p. 131-142 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2018.10.014 - Fuentes-Perez, J.F., Silva, A.T., Tuhtan, J.A, Garcia-Vega, A., Carbonell-Baeza, R., Musall, M., Kruusmaa, M. 3D modelling of non-uniform and turbulent flow in vertical slot fishways // Environmental modelling & software (2018) vol. 99, p. 156-169 : ill.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.09.011