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Øyvind T. Ødegaard (Sivilingeniør/B.Eng.Hons.) is a senior engineer in NIVA's oceanography section. He was educated at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in Offshore Engineering with Electrical and Electronic Engineering and has further specialization from NTNU in, among other things, signal processing, marine acoustics, robotics, and ecological cybernetics.
Øyvind's work experience from industry, the university sector, and the institute sector involves interdisciplinary R&D on sensors, sensor platforms, methodology, and data processing within physical oceanography, marine biology, and commercial hydrographic surveying. He has special expertise in the configuration, operation, positioning/navigation, measurement uncertainty, processing, and visualization of data from uncrewed underwater vehicles (AUV and ROV) and surface vehicles (USV). Additionally, he has several years of experience in electrical design, programming, technical documentation, testing, troubleshooting, failure probability calculation, and assessment of technical safety for marine control systems.
In NIVA Øyvind has participated in projects such as:
SeaBee (NFR project 296478): Testing, configuration, and operation of Maritime Robotics USV. Development of georeferencing and visualization software for fluorometer, sonar, and CT payload sensors. Maintenance, upgrades, documentation, and publication.
NorSOOP (NFR project 269922): Building, installation, configuration, and testing of Ferrybox control and logging electro cabinets. Calibration, validation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of instruments, samplers, and data transfer systems.
NAUTILOS (EU Horizon 2020 grant agreement 101000825): Modification, documentation, lab testing, and field testing of chl a and eDNA filter samplers for use in FerryBox systems. Integration and field testing of newbuild chl a / CDOM LIDAR on Maritime Robotics USV.
Oil2Fish: Teaching technical aspects of aquaculture to representatives from 12 engineering companies in Agder, aimed at knowledge/tech transfer from the oil, gas and maritime industries to the aquaculture sector.
Øyvind's work experience from industry, the university sector, and the institute sector involves interdisciplinary R&D on sensors, sensor platforms, methodology, and data processing within physical oceanography, marine biology, and commercial hydrographic surveying. He has special expertise in the configuration, operation, positioning/navigation, measurement uncertainty, processing, and visualization of data from uncrewed underwater vehicles (AUV and ROV) and surface vehicles (USV). Additionally, he has several years of experience in electrical design, programming, technical documentation, testing, troubleshooting, failure probability calculation, and assessment of technical safety for marine control systems.
In NIVA Øyvind has participated in projects such as:
SeaBee (NFR project 296478): Testing, configuration, and operation of Maritime Robotics USV. Development of georeferencing and visualization software for fluorometer, sonar, and CT payload sensors. Maintenance, upgrades, documentation, and publication.
NorSOOP (NFR project 269922): Building, installation, configuration, and testing of Ferrybox control and logging electro cabinets. Calibration, validation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of instruments, samplers, and data transfer systems.
NAUTILOS (EU Horizon 2020 grant agreement 101000825): Modification, documentation, lab testing, and field testing of chl a and eDNA filter samplers for use in FerryBox systems. Integration and field testing of newbuild chl a / CDOM LIDAR on Maritime Robotics USV.
Oil2Fish: Teaching technical aspects of aquaculture to representatives from 12 engineering companies in Agder, aimed at knowledge/tech transfer from the oil, gas and maritime industries to the aquaculture sector.