Europe Oceans 2005Pub Date : 2005-06-20DOI: 10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511769
M. Zakharia, C. Pollet, E. Rigaud
{"title":"Combined parametric synthetic and interferometric sonar for the detection of buried objects","authors":"M. Zakharia, C. Pollet, E. Rigaud","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511769","url":null,"abstract":"Both parametric and synthetic aperture sonar can provide low frequency and high resolution \"virtual arrays\" either thanks to the medium nonlinearity (parametric) or to extra processing including sonar platform trajectory (SAS). They can thus be relevant tools for the detection of buried objects (need of low frequency for bottom penetration) with a \"reasonably sized\" array. The SITAR project is an EC funded project for the detection and characterization of buried waste in the Baltic Sea. It requires an acoustic tool for area surveys and detection of \"suspicious zones\". In this framework, both parametric and synthetic aperture techniques were used concurrently in order to get the best resolution for both bottom and subbottom images. A prototype of parametric SAS has been developed in this project and tested in tank and at sea. The primary frequencies of the prototype are around 100 kHz leading to a secondary one ranging from 10 to 20 kHz. The difference in penetration (between primaries and secondary frequency ranges) is used to discriminate proud from buried targets. Two lines of receiving array were used in order to provide SAS interferometric mapping. Six SAS images and three maps were thus obtained from the same spot, at the same time and with comparable resolution (two high frequency images and a low frequency one for both top and bottom arrays). After a presentation of the prototype and of the experiments, this paper will concentrate on processed images obtained at sea and on the understanding of the physical phenomena involved (in particular their frequency dependence) in order to identify buried objects.","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"16 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":"116848031","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.2005.1513262
F. Jaffré, T. Austin, B. Allen, R. Stokey, C. von Alt
{"title":"Ultra short baseline acoustic receiver/processor","authors":"F. Jaffré, T. Austin, B. Allen, R. Stokey, C. von Alt","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513262","url":null,"abstract":"The Oceanographic Systems Laboratory at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution has developed a high resolution ultra short baseline acoustic navigation system to provide an accurate range and bearing estimates to an underwater transponder. The development focused on the utilization of wideband, coded signal which greatly improved the range and estimation in high multi-path environments, typically found in shallow water, near-surface, and most vehicle installations. This system was integrated into REMUS autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) as a primary navigation system for homing, docking, or operating in narrow channels. Low powered coded transponders were also developed for complete, two-way, wideband signaling and multiple vehicle operations.","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"382 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":"124755746","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.2005.1511706
A. Kostianoy, K. Litovchenko, S. Lebedev, S. Stanichny, D. Soloviev, O. Pichuzhkina
{"title":"Operational satellite monitoring of oil spill pollution in the southeastern Baltic Sea","authors":"A. Kostianoy, K. Litovchenko, S. Lebedev, S. Stanichny, D. Soloviev, O. Pichuzhkina","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511706","url":null,"abstract":"Shipping activities in the Baltic Sea, including oil transport and oil handled in harbors, have a number of negative impacts on the marine environment and coastal zone. Oil spills cause the contamination of seawater, shores, and beaches, which may persist for several months and represent a threat to marine resources. One of the main tasks in the ecological monitoring of the Baltic Sea is an operational satellite and aerial detection of oil spillages, determination of their characteristics, establishment of the pollution sources and forecast of probable trajectories of the oil spill transport. In June 2003 LUKOIL-Kaliningradmorneft initiated a pilot project, aimed to the complex monitoring of the southeastern Baltic Sea, in connection with a beginning of oil production at continental shelf of Russia in March 2004. Since June 2004 the operational monitoring was performed on the base of daily satellite remote sensing (AVHRR NOAA, MODIS, TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, ENVISAT ASAR imagery) of SST, sea level, chlorophyll concentration, mesoscale dynamics, wind and waves, and oil spills. 110 oil spills have been detected in the time period between June 2004 and March 2005. Some of the results of a complex approach to the ongoing monitoring of the southeastern Baltic Sea devoted, basically, to the oil spills detection by means of ASAR ENVISAT data and forecast of probable trajectories of the oil spill transport based on the interactive numerical model Seatrack Web are discussed.","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"68 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":"128654850","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.2005.1513171
J. Rolin, J. Blandin, V. Lykousis, J. Strout, G. Etiope, P. Favali, P. Briole, V. Ballu, G. Papatheodorou, G. Ferentinos, D. Cathy, M. Masson
{"title":"Common issues between cabled and non cabled observatories in ASSEM project","authors":"J. Rolin, J. Blandin, V. Lykousis, J. Strout, G. Etiope, P. Favali, P. Briole, V. Ballu, G. Papatheodorou, G. Ferentinos, D. Cathy, M. Masson","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513171","url":null,"abstract":"From EU funded project ASSEM (Array of Sensors for Seabed Monitoring of geohazard), some innovative monitoring devices have been demonstrated. The activity on the seabed of a very active seismic area in the Gulf of Corinth in Greece was measured. The parameters driving slope instability were acquired in the Finneidfjord in Norway. From these pilot experiments a discussion of some criteria for the choice of laying cabled observatories or non-cabled subsea observatories is proposed.","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"39 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":"129826374","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.2005.1513206
M.H. Hayes, A. Hunter, P. Barclay, P. Gough
{"title":"Estimating layover in broadband synthetic aperture sonar bathymetry","authors":"M.H. Hayes, A. Hunter, P. Barclay, P. Gough","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513206","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we investigate broadband interferometric height estimation using a small vertical hydrophone array and multiple frequency bands as a means of reducing image layover artefacts. We demonstrate the effect of layover on bathymetric images using simulated imagery to avoid the ground-truth problem. We then discuss maximum likelihood (ML) methods for estimating multiple targets within the same resolution cell and extend these to multiple frequency bands. Results are shown for two frequency bands (20-40 kHz and 90-110 kHz) and a vertical hydrophone array of three elements as used by KiwiSAS. Each of these bands is subdivided into a number of sub-bands to reduce the footprint shift effect, or misregistration between the different signals, due to the unknown seafloor topography. Multiple spatial looks are also employed to reduce the variance of the phase estimates. A relaxation algorithm is then applied to estimate multiple targets within a resolution cell. The algorithm was found to give reasonable estimates except when two (or more) closely spaced scatterers of comparable strength were in the same resolution cell.","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":"130677698","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.2005.1511727
L. Atallah, C. Shang, R. Bates
{"title":"Object detection at different resolution in archaeological side-scan sonar images","authors":"L. Atallah, C. Shang, R. Bates","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511727","url":null,"abstract":"Side-scan sonar is now considered 'the instrument-of-choice' for underwater archaeological surveys. However, much work is required to understand the factors that may affect the surveyed data, including the effect of sonar resolution on the detection of objects on the seafloor and the potential confusion between the presence of recent objects on the seafloor and that of actual 'archaeological' material. To aid in addressing these issues, this paper presents an approach using scale saliency features for object detection in archaeological side-scan sonar images. Experimental results show that the techniques introduced here are capable of determining scales and saliency features for object regions. More importantly, the work is robust with respect to image intensity, scale and contrast. These factors often change in real sonar surveys due to collecting data at different depths and using different sonar parameters.","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"5 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":"132443116","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.2005.1513159
C. Fraschini, F. Chaillan, P. Courmontagne
{"title":"An improvement of the discriminating capability of the active sonar by optimization of a criterion based on the Cramer-Rao lower bound","authors":"C. Fraschini, F. Chaillan, P. Courmontagne","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513159","url":null,"abstract":"This study is a contribution within the framework of detection of underwater targets using active sonar. This paper aims at proposing an original method allowing a great improvement of the sonar performances. This technique uses a filter, determined by optimizing a criterion based on the Cramer-Rao lower bound. Experimental results are proposed and compared with other approaches.","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"222 19","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132443814","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.2005.1511775
K. Nasahashi, T. Ura, A. Asada, T. Obara, T. Sakamaki, K. Kim, K. Okamura
{"title":"Underwater volcano observation by autonomous underwater vehicle \"r2D4\"","authors":"K. Nasahashi, T. Ura, A. Asada, T. Obara, T. Sakamaki, K. Kim, K. Okamura","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511775","url":null,"abstract":"Based on the successes in development and field operations of AUV \"R-One Robot\", the Underwater Technology Research Center at the University of Tokyo established a five year project for a next generation long-range cruising type AUV from 2001, an AUV named \"r2D4\". The primary mission for \"r2D4\" is a survey of an undersea hydrothermal vent area. Construction of the hardware system as well as the primary software system were completed in July 2003. Special features of \"r2D4\" are the following: (1) Compact size and lightweight (length overall: 4.4 m, weight: 1,600 kg). (2) Operating max depth 4,000 m. (3) Highly accurate positioning by the combined instrumentation of fiber optic gyroscope and Doppler sonar. (4) \"r2D4\" has superior recognition ability on the complicated underwater environments transition by multiple sensor. (5) Adaptive path replanning ability for the observation. If the vehicle finds a suspicious place or an object in underwater space, it can regenerate the target path dynamically in order to make this observation. After the observation at Ryotsu Bay in the Sea of Japan and Kurosima knoll off Ishigaki Island, \"r2D4\" investigated the undersea hydrothermal vents at the area of Mariana Trough in June 2004. We succeeded in the observation of the plume from the undersea hydrothermal vents at NW Rota 1 Underwater Volcano with multiple sensor and still camera. We present the outline of the new AUV \"r2D4\" and the results of the survey.","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"8 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":"130915080","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.2005.1511715
E.C. Page, M. Stojanovic
{"title":"A coordinate descent algorithm for multichannel multiuser detection in underwater acoustic DS-CDMA systems","authors":"E.C. Page, M. Stojanovic","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1511715","url":null,"abstract":"Direct Sequence (DS) Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) is considered for a network of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) communicating through a Base Station (BS) equipped with a receive array. A multiuser detection algorithm, based on the Cyclic Coordinate Descent (CCD) approach is proposed for this situation. The CCD technique is used to circumvent the complexity of the optimal Maximum Likelihood (ML) detector. The proposed algorithm is based on joint data detection and channel estimation using Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) as the overall optimization criterion. It is implemented in a multichannel configuration to exploit the array processing gain available at the BS. The complexity of the proposed CCD detector does not depend on the modulation level and is linear in the size of the receive array. The CCD detector has been tested using real data, recorded from four users transmitting asynchronously over a shallow water acoustic channel, with varying Spreading Factors. The signals were transmitted over 2 km in a 20 kHz band, demonstrating good results at the chip rate of 16 kchips/second.","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":"128778974","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.2005.1513216
F. Chaillan, C. Fraschini, P. Courmontagne, M. Amate
{"title":"Multiresolution analysis of SAS images","authors":"F. Chaillan, C. Fraschini, P. Courmontagne, M. Amate","doi":"10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513216","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANSE.2005.1513216","url":null,"abstract":"Detection and classification of underwater mines with Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) images is a challenge that can be performed in studying either the echoes or the shadows of mines. However, SAS images present a strong speckle level due to the construction of the image itself. To reduce this speckle level, filtering methods are generally used but all of them strongly deteriorate either the shadow or the echo of the mine. In this article, we propose a new speckle reduction method which allows enhancing jointly mines echoes and shadows. This new process is based on the marriage between a multiresolution transformation and a filtering method. Results obtained on real SAS data are presented and compared with those obtained using classical processing.","PeriodicalId":120840,"journal":{"name":"Europe Oceans 2005","volume":"28 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":"126701478","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}