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Papers

(The TQCC of IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
2023 Index IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering Vol. 48	223
Table of Contents	134
Editorial Farewell From Your Outgoing EiC	88
JOE Call for Papers - Special Issue on Maritime Informatics and Robotics: Advances from the IEEE Symposium on Maritime Informatics & Robotics	76
Multifrequency Phased-Arrays With Dynamic Range Ratio Control for Coastal Monitoring	71
ROV Localization Using Ballasted Umbilical Equipped With IMUs	68
A New Region Ocean Sound Velocity Field Model Considering Variation Mechanisms of Temperature and Salt	67
On the Exploitation of Dual-Polarimetric SAR Measurements to Observe the C33 Iceberg in Antarctica	65
DeepWavelet: A Multimodal Wavelet-Based Network for Sonar–Inertial Odometry in Underwater Robots	60
Modal Group Delay Estimation for Dispersive Modes in Broadband Arctic Tomography	60
Reinforcement Learning-Based Virtual Time Compressed Mirror for Underwater Acoustical Channel Equalization Based on Main Path to Side Path Ratio Criterion	50
Convolutional Neural Networks and Transformers-Based Techniques for Underwater Marine Debris Classification: A Comparative Study	49
Joint Source-Environment Adaptation of Data-Driven Underwater Acoustic Source Ranging Based on Model Uncertainty	48
Robust Chinese Remainder Theorem–Based Synthetic Aperture Sonar Motion Estimation	45
Method for Remote Sensing Oil Spill Applications Over Thermal and Polarimetric Imagery	44
DAPNet: Dual Attention Probabilistic Network for Underwater Image Enhancement	44
Laser Doppler Velocimetry for 3-D Seawater Velocity Measurement Using a Single Wavelength	43
Autonomous Underwater Environment Perceiving and Modeling: An Experimental Campaign With FeelHippo AUV for Forward Looking Sonar-Based Automatic Target Recognition and Data Association	41
A Shared Control Framework With Constrained Optimization and Guiding Force Feedback for Teleoperation of Underwater Electric Manipulator	41
Attentive Neural Processes for Fast Trajectory Prediction in Underwater Acoustic Networks	41
A Recurrent Neural Network-Enhanced Supertwisting Pitch Controller for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines: Nonlinear Synthesis and HIL Validation	39
A Dynamic Ensemble Deep Randomized Neural Network Using Deep Autoregressive Features for Wave Height Forecasting With Missing Values	39
Evaluation of UKF-Based Fusion Strategies for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Multisensor Navigation	38
ADRC-Based Underwater Navigation Control and Parameter Tuning of an Amphibious Multirotor Vehicle	35
Path Selection in Parallel Multihop UVLC Systems Over Turbulence Channels	35

Editorial Presenting Abstracts of Accepted/Published JOE Papers at MTS/IEEE OCEANS Conferences	35
Design and Evaluation of the Gimbal System of Yardbird-BB Ocean Bottom Seismograph	34
Multistatic Tracking With the Precision Kalman Filter	31
Object Modeling From Underwater Forward-Scan Sonar Imagery With Sea-Surface Multipath	31
Navigation Without Localization Using Stable Cycles	31
MISU: Multi-Input Swin-UNet	31
Interference Cancellation for UWA Random Access Data Packet Transmission	30
Autonomous Ship Collision Avoidance in Restricted Waterways Considering Maritime Navigation Rules	30
An Efficient and Robust Underwater Image Compression Scheme Based on Autoencoder	29
Vector Quantized Underwater Image Enhancement With Transformers	29
HoloOcean: A Full-Featured Marine Robotics Simulator for Perception and Autonomy	28
Robust Multiping Forward-Looking Sonar Coherent Detection	28
A Deep Learning Model for Marine Mammal Call Classification	28
GNSS-A Ranging Model With Acoustic Delay Corrections Achieving Centimeter-Level-Precision Positioning	28
A Physics-Based Inversion of Multibeam Sonar Data for Seafloor Characterization	27
Table of Contents	27
Super Permutation Frequency-Shift-Keyed Underwater Acoustic Communication	26
Current Trends and Advances in Quantum Navigation for Maritime Applications: A Comprehensive Review	26
Time-Series Compensation Method for Hydrofoil Planing Attitude Stability Control of Hybrid Aquatic-Aerial Robot	26
Experimental Evaluation of a Real-Time FPGA Platform for Multichannel Coherent Acoustic Communication	26
Cross Evaluation of Waveform Modulation Schemes Using Postexperimental Field Data	25
WDUIE: Wavelet Decoupling Network for Underwater Image Enhancement	25
Signals-of-Opportunity-Based Hydrophone Array Shape and Orientation Estimation	25
Parameter Estimation by Alternating Reconstruction and Sensation for Sonar System	24
EROAS: 3-D Efficient Reactive Obstacle Avoidance System for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using 2.5-D Forward-Looking Sonar	24
Underwater Image Enhancement With Reinforcement Learning	23
A Ship Tracking Method in Inland Waters Based on Fusion of Video and AIS Data	23
Improved Adaptive High-Order Sliding Mode-Based Control for Trajectory Tracking of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles	22
Hybrid AC Shipboard Microgrid Time Delayed LFC and AVR Controllers Tuning Through Gazelle Optimization Algorithm and Real-Time HIL Implementation	22
Unsupervised Multiple Representation Disentanglement Framework for Improved Underwater Visual Perception	22
Editorial Hello From Your New EiC	21
A High-Responsivity Subsurface Buoy System With a Fiber-Optic Acoustic Vector Sensor for Continuous Low-Frequency Acoustic Monitoring in the Deep Ocean: Development and Sea Trials	21
Gain Assessment of Environmental-Informed Subarray Processing: The ALMA 2017 Example	20
Texture-Based Seafloor Characterization Using Gaussian Process Classification	20
A Lightweight Real-Time Sidescan Sonar Image Detection Model Based on a Multiscale Fusion Module	20
Underwater Surface Normal Reconstruction via Cross-Grained Photometric Stereo Transformer	19
Coherence-Based Inversion of Pulse-Echo Data for Ocean Sound Speed Estimation	19
Design and Analysis of Large-Scale Contra-Rotating Offshore Vertical-Axis Turbines	19
PLLS-360°: A 360-Degree Underwater LiDAR Imaging System	19
A Reinforcement Learning Paradigm of Configuring Visual Enhancement for Object Detection in Underwater Scenes	19
On the Optimized Use of Nonorthonormality Constraints for the Quasi-Static INS Alignment of Autonomous Underwater and Surface Vehicles	19
SA-MPC: Situational Awareness-Driven Model Predictive Control via Vision-SBES Fusion for Robust Underwater Obstacle Avoidance	19
Self-Adversarial Generative Adversarial Network for Underwater Image Enhancement	18
Single Receiver Underwater Localization of an Unsynchronized Periodic Acoustic Beacon Using Synthetic Baseline	18
Seabed Wide-Angle Reflection Coefficient and Source Radiation Pattern Measurements From a Low-Frequency Multibeam Sonar	18
Efficient Data Collection for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks	18
Modeling and Analyzing Water Column Forward Scattering Effect on Airborne LiDAR Bathymetry	18
Enhancing Path Following of Underactuated Water-Cleaning ASVs Using Adaptive MPC: Real-Time Parameter Estimation and Sensitivity Analysis in Dynamic Marine Environments	18
UMono: Physical-Model-Informed Hybrid CNN–Transformer Framework for Underwater Monocular Depth Estimation	18
Fleet-Size Scaling of AUVs: Revisiting the Range Equation	18

CCCSIN: Color Compensation and Cross-Scale Semantic Information-Guided Network for Underwater Image Enhancement	18
Bathymetric Reconstruction From Sidescan Sonar With Deep Neural Networks	17
Table of Contents	17
Seabed Sediment Classification Based on Multibeam Data Using a Multifeature Fusion Algorithm	17
Prescribed Time Prescribed Performance Control for Direct-Drive Wave Energy Conversion System	17
Safe Maneuvering Near Offshore Installations: A New Algorithmic Tool	16
Marine Hydrokinetic Farm Optimization for Coaxial Dual-Rotor Turbines	16
Table of Contents	16
Large-Scale Dense 3-D Mapping Using Submaps Derived From Orthogonal Imaging Sonars	16
Attentional Multidomain Feature Fusion for Underwater Acoustic Signal Classification	16
Temporal Temperature Profile Prediction Using Graph Convolutional Networks and Inverted Echosounder Measurements	15
Experimental Investigation of Wave Energy Converters: Pneumatic Power Absorption in Oscillatory Flows	15
Experimental Investigation of the Optimal Position of Underwater Snake Robots for Energy Harvesting	15
An Enhanced DETR Network for Sonar Image Object Detection	15
Joint CFO, Gridless Channel Estimation and Data Detection for Underwater Acoustic OFDM Systems	15
Improved Calculation of the Second-Order Ocean Doppler Spectrum for Sea State Inversion	15
Robust Pitch Control for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines Using LLF-Based Aerodynamic Modeling and Nonsingular Terminal Sliding Mode With Prescribed Performance	15
Testing High Directional Resolution Sea-Spectrum Estimation Methods in View of the Needs of a National Monitoring System	15
Dual-Critic Proximal Policy Optimization for Trajectory Tracking of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Under Time-Varying Dynamics	15
Enhancing Underwater Imagery via Latent Low-Rank Decomposition and Image Fusion	15
The Impact of the Spatial Variability of the Seafloor on Midfrequency Sound Propagation During the Target and Reverberation Experiment 2013	15
Free Surface Elevation Estimator as a Sensor for Wave-Powered Data Buoys	15
Human-in-the-Loop Segmentation of Multispecies Coral Imagery	15
Potential-Game-Driven Formation Control of AUVs: An Inverse-Reinforcement-Learning-Based Solution	14
Contrastive Learning in NMPC Behavior Cloning for Generalized Trajectory Tracking of Marine Vehicles	14
Spherical Harmonic Expansion Model for GNSS/Acoustic Precise Seafloor Positioning	14
Laser-Acoustic Cross-Medium Communication (LACMC) System: Theoretical Channel Model and Experiments	14
Low Computational Complexity RLS-Based Decision-Feedback Equalization in Underwater Acoustic Communications	14
Modeling and Nonlinear Control Design for a Small Hydrobatic Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	14
Transfer Learning and Few-Shot Learning Based Deep Neural Network Models for Underwater Sonar Image Classification With a Few Samples	14
Three Fundamental Decisions in the Evaluation of Autonomous Naval Mine Hunting Operations	13
Secondary Beam Attention Estimation Algorithm	13
Experimental Demonstration of an Autonomous Distributed-Consensus Network for Underwater Passive-Acoustic Detection	13
An Improved YOLOv8-Based Shallow Sea Creatures Object Detection Method	13
NWSP: A Novel Indicator for Ocean–Land Interface Extraction Using Bathymetric LiDAR	13
Effects of Water Surface Waves on a Sound-Millimeter Wave-Based Cross-Medium Wireless Communication System	13
Optimization Design Method of the Umbilical Cable Global Configuration Based on Representative Fatigue Conditions	13
A Fast Array RLS Equalizer for Phase Coherent Underwater Acoustic Communication	13
Experimental Model-Free Trim Control of a Planing Hull With Interceptor	13
LiDAR-Based Autonomous Docking System for Uncooperative Vessels in GNSS-Denied Environments Using a Size-Adaptive Dubins Path	13
Binocular Underwater Measurement With Multicolor Structured Light	13
Underwater Blast Noise Measurements in Very Shallow Water	12
A Dense Subframe-Based SLAM Framework With Side-Scan Sonar	12
A Hyperheuristic Algorithm Based on Evolutionary Strategy for Complex Mission Planning of AUVs in Marine Environment	12
Semantic Segmentation in Underwater Ship Inspections: Benchmark and Data Set	12
Call for papers: Special Issue on IEEE MetroSea 2023	12
Joint Equalization and Self-Interference Cancellation for Underwater Acoustic In-Band Full-Duplex Communication	12
Estimating Scattering Patch Area for a Direction Finding HF Radar	12
Demonstration of Underwater Channel State Information Acquisition in Grand Passage, Nova Scotia	11
Mitigating Structural Fragmentation in Sonar Deconvolution: A Directional Total Variation Approach With FISTA Acceleration	11
System Identification of a Novel Amphibious Cycloidal Propeller Unmanned Underwater Vehicle	11
Occlusion Modeling for Coherent Echo Data Simulation: A Comparison Between Ray-Tracing and Convex-Hull Occlusion Methods	11
Prior-Based Underwater Enhanced Image Quality Assessment Network	11
Modeling of the Electroacoustic Process of Incomplete Spark Discharge in Saline Water-Sparker Source	11
Benchmarking Online Object Trackers for Underwater Robot Position Locking Applications	11
Full-Dimensional Nonlinear Dynamic Analysis for Lift Operation of a DP Crane Vessel	11
Applying an Uncrewed Surface Vessel to Measure Under-Pier Bathymetry	11
Robust Wideband Beamspace Adaptive Beamforming for Mainlobe Jamming in Underwater Environment	11
Robust Wake Detection for Enhanced Maritime Monitoring: Transfer Learning Through a Dedicated Multispectral Ship Wake Data Set	11
In Situ Suction Filtration Sampler With Hundreds of Membranes for Deep-Sea Suspensions	11
Safety-Critical Trajectory Generation and Tracking Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles	10
Simulating Marine Snow Images: Pipeline, Data Set, and Benchmark	10
Underwater 3D-Feature-Enhanced Acoustic Imaging	10
Obtaining a Reverberant Tank’s Transfer Function and Its Application to the Calibration of Acoustic Transducers and Recorders	10
2022 List of Reviewers	10
Neural Shape-From-Shading for Survey-Scale Self-Consistent Bathymetry From Sidescan	10
PLUM: A Prompt-Guided Lightweight Unified Model for Enhancement of Multidegraded Underwater Image	10
Adaptive Formation Motion Planning and Control of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	10
Real-Time Sonar Image Simulation for Adaptive Template Matching in Automatic Target Recognition	10
Guest Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Underwater Communications and Networking 2021 (UComms21)	10
A Greedy Depth-Seeking Behavior for Energy-Efficient Transits by an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	10
Analysis and Compensation of Acoustic Rolling Shutter Effect of Acoustic-Lens-Based Forward-Looking Sonar	9
Seismo-Acoustic Sensing on the Beaufort Sea in the 2021 Sea Ice Dynamics Experiment (SIDEx)	9
Model-Guided Deep Learning for Line Segment Detection in Time–Frequency Spectrograms of an Ocean Waveguide	9
Long-Term Evolution of Wave Loads Against Offshore Fixed Monopile Structures on the Irish Atlantic Coast (1900–2010)	9
Multi-USV System Antidisturbance Cooperative Searching Based on the Reinforcement Learning Method	9
Combined Texture Continuity and Correlation for Sidescan Sonar Heading Distortion	9
Fairness-Driven Optimization for NOMA-UWOC Systems With Energy Harvesting Requirements	9
Development of a Novel Deep-Sea Acoustic Measuring Device for Quantifying In Situ Methane Bubble Flux From Cold Seeps at the Seafloor	9
Experiment-Based Modeling and Control of a Floating Wind-Wave Hybrid System for Damping Enhancement	9

Dynamic Mission Reconfiguration and Knowledge Injection for Autonomous Vehicles Decision-Making Frameworks During Field Operations	9
Autonomous Tracking of Salinity-Intrusion Fronts by a Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	9
Coordinate-Rotation-Decoupled 3-D Near-Field Localization for Underwater Electric Dipole Sources	9
Formation Maneuver Control of Marine Vehicles Using Bearing Measurements: A Cooperative Extended State Observer-Based Approach	9
Ocean Sound Speed Profile Measurement Using a Pulse–Echo Technique	9
HG2former: HSV-Gamma Guided Transformers for Efficient Underwater Image Enhancement	9
Parameterized Dynamic Modeling and Spiral Motion Pattern Analysis for Underwater Gliders	9
Buoyancy Optimization for Energy-Efficient Gliding of Autonomous Underwater Gliders	8
Passive Vacuum Regeneration for Suction-Based Marine Adhesion Devices	8
Horizon Picking on Subbottom Profiles Using Wavelet Multiresolution Analysis	8
Cyclostationarity of Communication Signals in Underwater Acoustic Channels	8
Physics-Aware Modal Intensity Modeling for Dynamically Stable Ocean Front Prediction	8
Table of Contents	8
Real Signal DHT-OFDM With Index Modulation for Underwater Acoustic Communication	8
A Ship Radiated Noise Recognition Method Applicable to Incomplete Training Data Sets	8
A Novel Adaptive Initial State Estimation Method for Underwater Bearings-Only Target Tracking	8
A Passive Underwater Acoustic Target Recognition Method Using DiMobNet and ROI	8
Real-Time 3-D Underwater Target Detection With Sparse Labeling Using V-AFDPC and Hybrid Online Learning	8
Multilabel Classification of Heterogeneous Underwater Soundscapes With Bayesian Deep Learning	8
Hydrodynamic Analysis of Payload Bay Berthing for Underwater Vehicles	8
Adaptive Zigzag Mapping of a Patchy Field by a Long-Range Autonomous Underwater Vehicle	8