Rapid Environmental Picture Atlantic exercise 2015: A field report

The paper describes the sixth edition of Rapid Environmental Picture Atlantic exercise (REPIS-Atlantic) which took place in July 2015 off the Portuguese islands of Azores to demonstrate coordinated operations of unmanned underwater, surface, and air vehicles contributed by participants coming from Europe and the United States of America. REP-Atlantic is a yearly demonstration exercise targeted at advancing the state of art in networked vehicle systems through large scale experimentation in real-life operational scenarios.

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