Europe Oceans 2005Pub Date : 2005-06-20DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513246
A. Isar, D. Isar, S. Moga, J. Augustin, X. Lurton
{"title":"Multi-scale MAP despeckling of sonar images","authors":"A. Isar, D. Isar, S. Moga, J. Augustin, X. Lurton","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513246","url":null,"abstract":"The sonar images are perturbed by a multiplicative noise called speckle, due to the coherent nature of the scattering phenomenon. The use of speckle reduction filters is necessary to optimize the images exploitation procedures. This paper presents a new speckle reduction method in the wavelets domain using a novel Bayesian-based algorithm, which tends to reduce the speckle, preserving the structural features (like the discontinuities) and textural information of the scene. A blind speckle-suppression method that performs a nonlinear operation on the data, based on a new bishrink filter variant is obtained. Finally, some simulation examples prove the performances of the proposed denoising method. These performances are compared with the results obtained applying state-of-the-art speckle reduction techniques.","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128242675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Europe Oceans 2005Pub Date : 2005-06-20DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513176
Fu-Tai Wang, Shun-Hsyung Chang, J.C.-Y. Lee
{"title":"Hybrid wavelet-Hilbert-Huang spectrum analysis","authors":"Fu-Tai Wang, Shun-Hsyung Chang, J.C.-Y. Lee","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513176","url":null,"abstract":"Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) is a new method pioneered by Huang et al. for non-linear and non-stationary signal analysis. Signals are adaptively decomposed into several zero-mean amplitude modulation-frequency modulation (AM-FM) components. Each AM-FM subsignal has well defined instantaneous frequency (IF) called intrinsic mode functions (IMFs). This paper proposes a wavelet packet based method, to increase the band pass filtering ability of the EMD and this method is illustrated for simulation data of AM-FM signals and the results of IF estimation of signals are shown through both the Hilbert transform and the Teager energy operator (TEO).","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128653756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Europe Oceans 2005Pub Date : 2005-06-20DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513199
M. André, T. Johansson, E. Delory, M. van der Schaar
{"title":"Cetacean biosonar and noise pollution","authors":"M. André, T. Johansson, E. Delory, M. van der Schaar","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513199","url":null,"abstract":"Noise pollution in the marine environment is an emerging but serious concern. Its implications are less well understood than other global threats and largely undetectable to everyone but the specialist. In addition, the assessment of the acoustic impact of artificial sounds in the sea is not a trivial task, certainly because there is a lack of information on how the marine organisms process and analyze sounds and how relevant these sounds are for the balance and development of the populations. Further, this possible acoustic impact not only concerns the hearing systems but may also affect other sensory or systemic levels and result equally lethal for the animal concerned. If we add that the negative consequences of a short or long term exposure to artificial sounds may not be immediately observed one can understood how challenging it is to obtain objective data allowing an efficient control of the introduction of anthropogenic sound in the sea. To answer some of these questions, the choice to investigate cetaceans and their adaptation to an aquatic environment is not fortuitous. Cetaceans, because of their optimum use of sound as an ad-hoc source of energy and their almost exclusive dependence on acoustic information, represent not only the best bio-indicator of the effects of noise pollution in the marine environment, but also a source of data to improve and develop human underwater acoustic technology. Here, we present how the characteristics and performance of the sperm whale mid-range biosonar can be used to develop a mitigation solution based on passive acoustics and ambient noise imaging to prevent negative interactions with human activities by monitoring cetacean movements in areas of interest.","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124216228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Europe Oceans 2005Pub Date : 2005-06-20DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511711
V. Dadic, M. Srdelić, D. Ivanković
{"title":"GIS usage in planning of marine area assignment - case study","authors":"V. Dadic, M. Srdelić, D. Ivanković","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511711","url":null,"abstract":"The key factor for planning of sustainable development of the marine area is definition of their assignment. In the frame of these tasks different classification criteria for usage of the marine areas were defined, taking in account possible conflicts among existed and planned activities and biological diversity principles. Case study for planning of assignment of marine area was made in the Split-Dalmatian County (Croatia). Based on the predefined criteria and actual stage of marine environment more thematic layers were created using GIS tools. In the frame of these activities the most ecologically sensitive marine areas were determined, e.g. areas rich with flora and fauna, areas very important for fish spawning, etc. Based on this analysis optimal assignment of marine area has been proposed. So far, it was proposed eighteen different activities in marine sub-regions of County including protection of some areas.","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114202560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Europe Oceans 2005Pub Date : 2005-06-20DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511780
H. Kondo, T. Maki, T. Ura, T. Sakamaki
{"title":"Observation of breakwaters and their rock mound by AUV \"Tri-Dog 1\" at Kamaishi Bay","authors":"H. Kondo, T. Maki, T. Ura, T. Sakamaki","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511780","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a navigation method for an Autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) operating around structures whose major configuration given in advance. The method consists of a state estimator and a motion controller, enabling localization in the configuration map as well as following pregiven waypoints without any external help. The state estimator is based on a \"particle filter\" where the vehicle's state, horizontal position and heading, is stochastically updated in real time using multisensor data. This method was implemented on the AUV \"Tri-Dog 1\" and experiments were carried out around breakwater caissons at the mouth of Kamaishi bay, Iwate Prefecture in Japan. This is the first time a vehicle has succeeded in fully autonomous observation around breakwater caissons. Mosaics of the foot protection blocks, rock mound and caisson's surface are made from the observed images based on the estimated state of the AUV, to verify the performance of the method.","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"50 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127997246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Europe Oceans 2005Pub Date : 2005-06-20DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513230
D. Clorennec, J. de Rosny, Jérôme Minonzio, C. Prada, M. Fink, T. Folégot, P. Billand, S. Tauvry, S. Hibral, L. Berniere
{"title":"First tests of the DORT method at 12 kHz in a shallow water waveguide","authors":"D. Clorennec, J. de Rosny, Jérôme Minonzio, C. Prada, M. Fink, T. Folégot, P. Billand, S. Tauvry, S. Hibral, L. Berniere","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513230","url":null,"abstract":"The Decomposition of the Time Reversal Operator (DORT method) has been introduced by Prada et al. (1996) as a generalization of the iterative time-reversal process. The effectiveness of this method for ultrasonic detection and selective focusing on different scatterers in an inhomogeneous media has been shown. The robustness of the method in an ultrasonic wave guide has been demonstrated by Mordant et al. (1999). Whereas the performance of classical detection methods usually decreases due to multiple reflections at the waveguide interfaces, the DORT method takes advantage of the wave guide boundaries and multi-path propagation in order to improve spatial resolution. In this work, we present the first experiment in a realistic shallow water waveguide with a 24 elements source receiver array at 12 kHz central frequency. The DORT method is applied in order to detect two targets at 27 m distance. Numerical and experimental backpropagation of the dominant singular vectors of the array response matrix enable the localization of the individual targets.","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125251382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Europe Oceans 2005Pub Date : 2005-06-20DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513187
P. Dias, S. L. Fraga, Rui M. F. Gomes, G. Gonçalves, F. Pereira, J. Pinto, J. Sousa
{"title":"Neptus - a framework to support multiple vehicle operation","authors":"P. Dias, S. L. Fraga, Rui M. F. Gomes, G. Gonçalves, F. Pereira, J. Pinto, J. Sousa","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513187","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the development of a C3I (communications, command, control and intelligence/information) infrastructure, taking place at the Underwater Systems and Technology Laboratory (LSTS) of FEUP. This infrastructure, the Neptus framework, goal is to support the coordinated operation of heterogeneous teams, which include autonomous and remotely operated underwater, surface, land, and air vehicles and people. People perform a fundamental role, not only in the case of remotely operated vehicles, but also with autonomous vehicles where mix-initiative operation is a requirement. The operational scenarios for these teams are mainly environmental monitoring missions but could also include environmental disaster scenarios, rescue missions, etc. The Neptus distributed architecture is service oriented, which enables high degrees of interoperability between applications, of scalability (number of nodes), and of reconfiguration (number and type of nodes).","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"193 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131964125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Europe Oceans 2005Pub Date : 2005-06-20DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513174
Laurent Nana, Frank Singhoff, J. Legrand, J. Vareille, P. L. Parc, F. Monin, D. Masse, L. Marcé, J. Opderbecke, M. Perrier, V. Rigaud
{"title":"Embedded intelligent supervision and piloting for oceanographic AUV","authors":"Laurent Nana, Frank Singhoff, J. Legrand, J. Vareille, P. L. Parc, F. Monin, D. Masse, L. Marcé, J. Opderbecke, M. Perrier, V. Rigaud","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513174","url":null,"abstract":"The main goal of the work presented in this paper is to associate a basic AUV (autonomous underwater vehicle) control system such as ACE (an IFREMER control system) with a high level command part. This high level part is provided with complementary features needed by the initial AUV subsystem namely, a language allowing plans modification during their execution and a diagnosis and analysis system. The latter checks continuously the information provided by the sensors in relation to some predefined rules in order to ensure the good working of the AUV within its environment.","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132406388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Europe Oceans 2005Pub Date : 2005-06-20DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513232
J. Watson, H. Sun, D. C. Hendry, M. Player
{"title":"Optical configurations for oceanographic applications of eHolography","authors":"J. Watson, H. Sun, D. C. Hendry, M. Player","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513232","url":null,"abstract":"eHolography (electronic or digital holography) has been used for observing and measuring particle size and distribution in biomedicine, sedimentology and oceanology. In these areas, eHolography possesses advantages over other imaging techniques in terms of its capability for recording live organisms (e.g. plankton) or events (e.g. sediment erosion) in a non-disturbed environment. Compared with classical holography, an eHoIogram is recorded digitally on an electronic imaging sensor and reconstructed numerically, to produce a three-dimensional map of the scene. In this paper, we present our progress in developing an electronic Holographic Camera for high-resolution imaging, both subsea and in air (eHoloCam). Many optical configurations have been successfully used in classical (photographic) holography, including a back-illuminating inline beam with and without a separated reference beam, and side/front illuminated object with an off-axis reference beam. For eHolography, it is necessary to reexamine these and other optical geometries with specific reference to the constraints of reduced resolution and recording area of current CCD or CMOS imaging sensors. For example, using a divergent beam in recording back-illuminated in-line eHolograms can give an improvement in image resolution over the more usual collimated beam geometry. Furthermore, when using an off-axis beam in eHolography considerable limitations are encountered in obtaining useable holograms, such as the need to record at small reference beam angles. In this paper, we will discuss the various geometries we have used to overcome these difficulties.","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130117573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Europe Oceans 2005Pub Date : 2005-06-20DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513242
A. Pierce, W. M. Carey, M. Zampolli
{"title":"Low-frequency attenuation of sound in marine sediments","authors":"A. Pierce, W. M. Carey, M. Zampolli","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513242","url":null,"abstract":"Data on low frequency attenuation in marine sediments is surveyed and evidence is cited for the attenuation coefficient at such frequencies being something other than directly proportional to frequency. The original model of Biot for propagation in porous media is examined and simplified versions are derived for the low frequency limit. Acoustic waves are governed by a wave equation of the standard form, but with an additional terms that is proportional to the third time derivative. The \"slow wave\" disturbances are governed by a simple diffusion equation, such as results from Darcy's law. In this limit, the model predicts for acoustic waves an attenuation coefficient that is proportional to the square of the frequency and inversely proportional to viscosity. It is shown that this model also implies that the attenuation for fixed frequency and porosity should be proportional to the square of the grain size. The commonly used hybrid model, commonly referred to as the Biot-Stoll model, is subsequently examined in the low frequency limit, and it is shown that this model always predicts an attenuation coefficient varying linearly with frequency in the low frequency limit, as the linear term will always dominate the quadratic term if the frequency is sufficiently low. An alternate to the Biot-Stoll model is proposed in which the nonviscous attenuation is regarded as caused by a continuous distribution of relaxation processes. The model is characterized by a function g(/spl tau/) that represents the relative contribution per unit range of relaxation time at a given value of relaxation time /spl tau/. It is demonstrated that there is a choice for this function that does lead to a prediction of a linear dependence on frequency. However, a more realistic prediction, in which g has vanishingly small values at lower relaxation times, yields a prediction in which the quadratic term dominates at low frequencies, but a linear dependence is evident for intermediate ranges of frequency.","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"642 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131886450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}