R. Hosoda, S. Murota, D. Hamamiya, M. Yao, H. Fujinami, N. Hata
{"title":"Elimination of environmental impact loads from processed efflux","authors":"R. Hosoda, S. Murota, D. Hamamiya, M. Yao, H. Fujinami, N. Hata","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405516","url":null,"abstract":"The degradation of seawater quality in enclosed coastal sea area such as organic pollution and eutrophication is mainly caused by processed efflux from sewerage facilities. It has not been well understood that the processed efflux still dissolves high concentrations of nitrogen compounds and phosphates. Disposal capacity and supply of electric energy in sewerage facilities are necessary to be improved to remove such kind of environmental impact loads from sewage and drainage. To solve the problem without using big facilities and big amount of electricity, we have to study and consider the possibility of the natural purifying capacity of marine ecosystem in the coastal sea area. The red tides are phenomena of excess amount of phytoplankton growth in the eutrophic seawater. It means that some kinds of algae or phytoplankton can be used for purifying sewage and drainage which contains nitrogen compounds and phosphates, namely for assimilating nutrient loads. The authors proposed the \"Eco-Platform\" in the previous paper, and one of the key functions of the Eco-Platform is algae proliferation system. In the present paper, they show that the sea lettuce (Ulvales) gives a good solution to the problem. It grows very rapidly with assimilating nutrient loads in seawater under optimally controlled light and water temperature conditions. They also show that the energy-recycle in a broad sense can be achieved by processing the proliferated sea lettuce in the subcritical-hot-water decomposition system and subsequent methane fermentation system.","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125908418","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}
{"title":"Consciousness survey of waterfront residents in terms of comfort level of marine environment","authors":"M. Katayama","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406389","url":null,"abstract":"Abshnd-Waterfronts are increasingly being used for general public activities and residence. As a result, various specific environmental problems have emerged regarding activity, livability and comfort level in these areas. Along the coastline, for example, sounds of waves or wind are pleasant in some cases, but unpleasant in other cases. In order to create an attractive urban space in the development of the wnterfrout, it is essential to perform a basic planning in consideration of the comfort level of the marine environment. In this regard, in the coastal zone (waterfronts) of Kitakyushu City and vicinity, Japan, a questionnaire SUN^ in terms of the comfort level of marine environment was conducted, and analyzed to obtain the consciousness of the residents. The target areas of the questionnaire survey were fishery and residential quarters along the coastline. These areas are home to relatively large numbers of people involved in fishery and company work. These coastal nreas were divided into three different types : the artificial coast (vertical embankment plus wave dissipating blocks), natural sandy coast and artificial coast (vertical embankment). As survey method, the procedure so called visiting-leaving and questionnaire~ollecting was applied. The results of the analysis of the questionnaire survey of the residents consciousness on the marine environment showed that the natural environment was preferable to the artificial environment for the waterfront residents.","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125248465","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}
{"title":"A discontinuous Galerkin finite element shallow water model in simulating tidal flows","authors":"Zhixing Yu, Y. Kyozuka","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406348","url":null,"abstract":"The tidal flows are simulated by a discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method (FEM), which can capture shock waves near the discontinuities and conserve the system fluxes during a long term calculation. A nonconforming linear triangular element is used to simplify the discretization of the boundary integration of horizontal diffusion terms, though there is no difference in treating convective terms for any other linear element. The nature of the diagonal mass matrix couples with the special element makes the time integral explicit so that no mass lumping is needed, whereas it does in the usual continuous FEM. The numerical flux between the discontinuous element interfaces is obtained by the HLL approximate Riemann solver, together with an efficient multi-dimensional limiter on a triangular mesh. Numerical results show the robustness of the present model","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"244 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114604136","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}
E. Coiras, I. T. Ruiz, Yvan Petillot, David M. Lane
{"title":"Fusion of multiple side-scan sonar views","authors":"E. Coiras, I. T. Ruiz, Yvan Petillot, David M. Lane","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406456","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406456","url":null,"abstract":"A new set of techniques for the construction of large-scale side-scan mosaics is presented in this paper. The complete procedure operates in two main stages. First an accurate registration of the source side-scan images is performed by filtering navigation data, where an augmented state Rauch-Tung-Striebel (RTS) filter is used to smooth the stochastic map obtained from a Concurrent Mapping and Localization (CML) algorithm - which stores landmarks as extra states in a Kalman filter. Then a fusion algorithm based on Gabor wavelets is used to combine the registered side-scan images and assemble the final mosaic. The algorithm can be tuned to either maximize the information content or to minimize signal noise in the mosaic. The paper presents novel results created by fusing 14 views of a scene as observed by a side-scan sonar mounted on an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). The resulting mosaics are tailored to preserve the texture information of the individual views, accentuate the returns from important objects in the scene, and cover a wider area than any one single view","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122026519","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}
{"title":"Sea bottom and surface reverberations in scanning sonar","authors":"M. Furusawa, Yong Tang","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1402952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1402952","url":null,"abstract":"Sea surface and bottom reverberations in the fisheries sonar are theoretically and experimentally investigated for two purposes: to measure the surface scattering strength of the sea surface and bottom and to lessen the effect of the reverberations in detecting fish and measuring surface fish abundance","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124609412","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}
S. Byun, Han-jin Lee, H. Yoon, D. Gong, Chang-Min Lee, C. Kang
{"title":"Implementation of multi-vessel tracking algorithm using multiple marine radar systems","authors":"S. Byun, Han-jin Lee, H. Yoon, D. Gong, Chang-Min Lee, C. Kang","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406498","url":null,"abstract":"To prevent marine casualties, marine radars are widely used for tracking vessels near coast and, in general, multiple marine radars are applied to cover wide coastal area. Therefore their cooperative operation is very important for effective vessel traffic control. This work introduces implementation of a multivessel, multiradar tracking algorithm which can be used for such purpose. The implemented algorithm is based on the sensor-level tracking with centralized track file architecture which maintains a sensor-level (local) track file at each local radar site and integrate them into one central-level (global) track file using cross-correlation of the sensor-level tracks. The sensor-level tracking at each local radar site employs the conventional global nearest neighbor (GNN) approach which uses the auction algorithm for data association. The sensor-level tracks formed at each radar site are transmitted to data fusion center and combined by a track-to-track fusion algorithm to give central-level tracks. The resulting central-level tracks are also correlated against time to give a continuous track file for each target vessel even though it goes through the border of different radar's scan area. To validate the algorithm, a simulation was fulfilled and it showed that it operated properly as intended.","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124657193","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}
K. Takahashi, K. Goto, J. Sumie, T. Terashima, N. Otsuka, T. Shibata, N. Usami
{"title":"Study on the shipping route of the Ishikari inland waterway","authors":"K. Takahashi, K. Goto, J. Sumie, T. Terashima, N. Otsuka, T. Shibata, N. Usami","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406505","url":null,"abstract":"Most Japanese rivers have steep gradients and experience large seasonal flow variations. Due to these topographical characteristics, Japanese rivers are not typically used for inland waterway transport. However, the gentle gradient found throughout the middle and lower reaches of Hokkaido's Ishikari River, Japan's third longest river and second largest in terms of basin area, gives the Ishikari River potential as an avenue for inland transport. Large cities dot the Ishikari River basin, but despite this, logistics based on inland waterway transport have not developed in Hokkaido. Instead, these basin cities generally rely on trucks to move goods to and from nearby ports, a fact that is behind the mounting pressure for reduced transportation costs. This study examines the possibility of using the Ishikari River for inland waterway transport by looking at the river's physical suitability","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124716862","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}
{"title":"Frequency invariant beamforming in very short arrays","authors":"A. Trucco, S. Repetto","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405493","url":null,"abstract":"Frequency invariant beam patterns are often required in systems using an array of sensors to process broadband signals. Although several methods have been proposed to design a broadband beamformer (typically realized by an FIR filter for each sensor) with a frequency invariant beam pattern, till now the case in which the spatial aperture is shorter than the involved wavelengths has not been addressed. In such a case, the use of a superdirective beam pattern is essential to attain an efficient system. In this paper, a novel method to design a broadband beamforming that produces a frequency invariant beam pattern for a data-independent superdirective array is proposed and compared with other potential approaches. The method generates a far-field beam pattern that reproduces the desired profile over a very wide frequency band, also if the array is shorter than the wavelength. Two steps are necessary: (1) the generation of many apodizing windows at different frequency values by a stochastic method; (2) the synthesis of the FIR filters with the Parks-McClellan technique. At the end of the design chain, the very simple implementation and the robustness to array imperfections of the attained broadband beamformer increases the applicability of the system, for instance, in underwater communications for small vehicles.","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129453844","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}
{"title":"Influence of depth-dependent sediment properties on the pressure reflection coefficient at normal incidence using the Biot-Stoll Model","authors":"M. Joussein, P. Beaujean, S. Schock","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1406470","url":null,"abstract":"The impact of depth-dependent geophysical parameters on the reflection coefficient is studied using the Biot-Stoll theory in porous marine sediments. The seabed is modeled as a sediment layer with depth-dependent properties on top of a homogeneous half-space, as originally proposed by Stern. Reflection coefficient, phase velocity and attenuation coefficient for the slow, fast and shear waves are computed as a function of frequency and layer thickness. The model is tested assuming normal incidence of plane acoustic waves to the sea floor, which simulates the reflection coefficient measured from classic sub-bottom profilers. Results are determined by the evaluation of boundary conditions at the water-sediment layer interface and the sediment layer-half-space interface. The wave equation is solved as a function of frequency and layer thickness using the Runge-Kutta method. All depth-dependent parameters are linked to the porosity using equations provided by Berryman, Ogushwitz, Hovem and Ingram. Mean grain diameter and porosity are obtained from the Geoclutter experiment. The porosity varies with depth, while the mean grain diameter remains constant. Results are obtained for different types of sediment, from medium size sands to silty clay, and different porosity profiles. Depending on the sediment core, the porosity varied between 32% and 70%, indicating a high water content in every sample and suspension near the top of the layer. The maximum thickness of the layer is limited to 0.5 meters. The frequency range is 100 Hz to 5 kHz. If the porosity is lower than 45%, results show that the reflection coefficient vs. frequency may be very similar for two sediments of very different mean grain diameter but of similar porosity profile. However, a large difference in porosity at any depth between two samples leads to very different reflection coefficient spectra. This work is sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, Code # ONR321CG, Dr. Tom Drake","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129669419","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}
{"title":"Image quality assessment in time/frequency surfaces","authors":"M. Levonen, L. Persson, S. McLaughlin","doi":"10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405504","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS.2004.1405504","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper time-frequency analysis has been done using the traditional short time Fourier transform (STFT), also known as a spectrogram, and the short time fractional Fourier transform (STFrFT). The STFrFT is a generalisation of the traditional STFT. Performance comparisons are made between the two different transforms and it is shown that matching the transform to the nature of the data improves the quality of the time-frequency images. Two data sets are analysed, both sets were recorded in the Baltic Sea. The first set includes high bandwidth (60 kHz) high chirp rate, short duration signals (1 ms duration). The second set has lower bandwidth and lower chirp rate. The analysis of these two sets are used to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of the transforms. In the second section of this paper a number of different metrics for image quality assessment are tried out on the time/frequency images produced with the aforementioned transform techniques. The results show that the FrFT has several advantages over the traditional short time Fourier transform, as it makes use of the knowledge of the transmitted wave form, when the data indeed has the desired properties. When the chirp rate decreases, the FrFT becomes the traditional FT and does not provide any enhancement to the time/frequency image. The implementation of image quality measures show that depending on what the characteristics of the features in the image are, different image quality measures are required to ensure that the right conclusions are drawn about image quality. This also points out the need to establish what one means with image quality.","PeriodicalId":390971,"journal":{"name":"Oceans '04 MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04 (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37600)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2004-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130315968","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}