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#Indian Ocean | Development

#University of Western Australia | Deep ocean research | Discovering new species | Assessing marine biodiversity | Mapping the ocean floor | Charting deep-sea habitats | Specialising in abyssal (3,000-6,000 m) and hadal (6,000-11,000 m) depths

#Minderoo Foundation | Research centre to increase understanding about the deepest parts of the ocean | Expeditions to explore the hadal zones (6000m+) of the Indian Ocean | Assessing biodiversity, habitats, genetic connectivity, evolutionary adaptation and anthropogenic impacts | Increasing the seafloor mapping of the Western Australian Exclusive Economic Zone and the wider east Indian Ocean

#Indian Ocean Research Group Inc. (IORG) | Research relevant to the Indian Ocean

#RIO Research Centre Indian Ocean | Serving as a hub for scientific work within the region of the Indian Ocean

#ZSL & Bertarelli Foundation | Researching Indian Ocean

#Indian Ocean World Centre | McGill University research about Indian Ocean

#Columbia Climate School | Indian Ocean Projects

#Stanford University | Indian Ocean Research

#High seas treaty | International Union for Conservation of Nature | Biodiversity protection | International Seabed Authority | Marine environment threats pollution from coastal infrastructure and dumping | Marine protected areas

#Energy security | Indo Pacific energy forum | U.S. | Japan | India | Australia | International Energy Agency

#Rosetti Superyachts | Emocean | Fully custom superyacht | Custom designed wine cellar | Italian shipyard | Speaking with subcontractors | Rosetti Marino Group | Hydro Tec | Priorities included spending long periods on board regardless of sea conditions | Pushing the use of space to the limit | 793 gallons of refrigerator and freezer space for long term provisions | Virtuous circle where all parties felt free to throw on the table new ideas and concepts to incorporate in the design | Selecting the best contractor for each element | Exploration oriented projects

#Monte Fino E Class Explorer | Global demand for expedition style cruising in an eco-friendly way | Kha Shing | Taiwan | Developed using fluid dynamics | Eco efficient cruising across long distances | Octoplex tablet for monitoring and operating systems

#Sea Machines | Navigation and collision avoidance system | Electronic charts | Controlling steering and propulsion | Collision avoidance | Networked cameras to detect, track, geolocate, and classify objects | Human on the loop scheme

#Sunway University | Studying the shared culture of countries surrounding the Indian Ocean

#Australian Institute of Marine Science | Indian Ocean marine science

#Indian Ocean Rim Association | Regional forum

#Western Australian Department of Fisheries | Fisheries research

#Mercom India | Hydrogen Harnessed from Ocean Water research

#Maritime India | Hydrogen derived from Ocean Renewable Energy Resources

#Ministry of Power, Government of India | Hydrogen produced by way of electrolysis of water using Renewable Energy

#European Geosciences Union | Plastics in the Indian Ocean

#Frontiers | Potential Plastic Accumulation Zones in the Indian Coastal Seas

#CeScube | Chemical Pollution in Indian Ocean

#World Bank | A healthy Indian Ocean feeds, protects, and connects all South Asians

#University of Oxford | High resolution model to quantify the sources of plastic debris accumulating on beaches across the Seychelles and other island states in the western Indian Ocean

#UNESCO | Plastic debris on Aldabra Atoll

#Sky News | Aldabra atoll plasric carbage in the Indian Ocean

#IUCN | Western Indian Ocean plastic tap

#Science Daily | Microplastics in the Indian Ocean

#Conservation | Seychelles is becoming overwhelmed by marine plastic

#International Whaling Commission | Treaty to tackle plastic pollution

#United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) | Marine Plastic Pollution

#India Ministry of Environment | Indian Ocean projects

#Wildlife Institute of India | Marine plastic pollution migitation

#Data Cosmos | MultiSatellite Data Platform | Open Cosmos

#Azure Funding | Boat Loans

#AST Space Mobile | AST n Science | Building space based cellular broadband network to be accessible by standard smartphones | 4G/5G connectivity everywhere on the planet | Automatic roaming from land networks to a space network | Connectivity anywhere without having to invest in expensive, specialized hardware

#Commonwealth | Asia | Brunei | India | Malaysia | Maldives | Pakistan | Singapore | Sri Lanka

#Heesen | Acquire yachts that are already under construction | Platform concept | Proven engineering platform | Tested hulls | Semi custom series | Unique exterior design | Ability to personalise the yacht | Reducing both delivery time and costs | Producing in lines | Exclusivity is guaranteed | Production numbers of each platform are limited | Ability to build completely different yachts using an identical platform

#Doyle Sails | Sail solutions | Cruising | Main sales | Head sales | Code sales | Downwind sales

#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) | Maritime monitoring

#General Atomics | Air to Air Laser Communication System | Crosslinks from aircraft to other platforms such as unmanned aircraft, maritime vessels, and space systems

#SatelIoT | IoT connectivity over standard 5G NB-IoT

#Wartsila | Ship command systems | Autonomous Short Sea Shipping | Navigation and DP solutions

#Aqualink | Ocean conservation technology | Autonomous Surface Vehicle(ASV) kit | ROS | Pixhawk | NVIDA Jetson GPU | Solar powered smart buoy

#Intel | Neuromorphic computing

#SpaceX | Satellite to cellular service

#Elroy Air | Autonomous cargo aircraft systems| Vertical take off and landing (VTOL) cargo aircraft | Specially designed aerodynamic modular cargo pods | Commercial logistics | Disaster relief | Firefighting | Humanitarian operations | Replacing difficult ground transportation | Detachable pod | Dropping off cargo | Pickkung up ready to go cargo | Makint deliveries fast | Allowing ground crew to empty or load a pod at their leisure

#UPM | UPM Raflatac Ocean Action | Ocean Action label | Made from ocean bound plastic | Creating a demand for reclaiming plastic waste before it pollutes oceans | Chemically recycled plastic | Material Circularity Indicator (MCI) | Ellen MacArthur Foundation | Granta Design | Orthex | Raw material made from used fishing nets

#Stora Enso | Renewable and recyclable paperboard solutions | Wood fibers in disposable cutlery | Pulp for food packaging | Formed fiber products

#Bahrain Institute for Pearls and Gemstones (DANAT) | Developing characterization tools for the properties of pearls | Explore technologies to assign unique identifiers to individual pearls

#Skymet Weather | Private weather services

#Advanced Navigation | Inertial measurement unit (IMU) | Heading reference system (AHRS) | Acoustic navigation | AI-based acoustic processing techniques | Subsea transponder | Sidney, Australia

#SiLC | Machine Vision solutions with FMCW LiDAR vision | FMCW at the 1550nm wavelength | Eyeonic Vision Sensor platform | Detecting vehicles and various obstacles from long distances | Honda Xcelerator Ventures | Honda Marine

#National Technical University of Athens | MariNeXt deep-learning framework detecting and identifying marine pollution | Sentinel-2 imagery | Detecting marine debris and oil spills on sea surface | Automated data collection and analysis across large spatial and temporal scales | Deep learning framework | Data augmentation techniques | Multi-scale convolutional attention network | Marine Debris and Oil Spill (MADOS) dataset | cuDNN-accelerated PyTorch framework | NVIDIA RTX A5000 GPUs | NVIDIA Academic Hardware Grant Program | AI framework produced promising predictive maps | Shortcomings: unbalanced dataset, marine water and oil spills are abundant, foam and natural organic material are less represented

#Yamaha Marine | 450 hp hydrogen-powered V-8 outboard | Three 6-foot-long cylindrical-shaped hydrogen fuel tanks | H2 machine operates by using hydrogen in its combustion chambers | H2 tanks are positioned low and centrally to enhance stability | H2 tanks size demands rethinking of future boat designs, hulls specifically tailored for hydrogen storage | Hydrogen storage system adds considerable weight to vessel | Volumetric energy density of hydrogen is lower, requiring larger tanks | Partners: Roush Performance, Regulator Marine

#Feadship | Hydrogen-cell superyacht | Double-walled cryogenic tank in dedicated room | 4 tons of hydrogen | Cruising protected marine zones.| Cryogenic storage of liquefied hydrogen in superyacht interior | No regulations for hydrogen storage and fuel-cell systems on superyacht

#Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5) | Developing international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution | Raising awareness about the serious impacts of plastic pollution on both humans and nature | Global bans and phase-outs of the most harmful and problematic plastic products and chemicals | Global product design requirements to ensure all plastic produced is safe to reuse and recycle as part of global non-toxic circular economy

#Allen Institute for Artifical Intelligence | AI for the Environment | Robot planning precise action points to perform tasks accurately and reliably | Vision Language Model (VLM) controlling robot behavior | Introducing automatic synthetic data generation pipeline | Instruction-tuning VLM to robotic domains and needs | Predicting image keypoint affordances given language instructions | RGB image rendered from procedurally generated 3D scene | Computing spatial relations from camera perspective | Generating affordances by sampling points within object masks and object-surface intersections | Instruction-point pairs fine-tune language model | RoboPoint predicts 2D action points from image and instruction, which are projected into 3D using depth map | Robot navigates to these 3D targets with motion planner | Combining object and space reference data with VQA and object detection data | Leveraging spatial reasoning, object detection, and affordance prediction from diverse sources | Enabling to generalize combinatorially.| Synthetic dataset used to teach RoboPoint relational object reference and free space reference | Red and ground boxes as visual prompts to indicate reference objects | Cyan dots as visualized ground truth | NVIDIA | | Universidad Catolica San Pablo | University of Washington