Terrain Mapping With Forward Looking Sonar on Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Abstract

In the future, successful reconnaissance operations conducted in shallow water with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles will rely heavily on a high performance, high resolution, forward look sonar coupled with terrain mapping algorithms for object detection, localization and classification, sea bottom mapping and feature extraction. This paper describes in detail a terrain mapping algorithm based on an advanced forward look sonar design. The development is illustrated with in-water results.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1998
Accession Number
AD1114751

Entities

People

  • Michael R. Medeiros
  • Robert N. Carpenter

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustics
  • Algorithms
  • Arrays
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Composite Materials
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Detection
  • Frequency
  • Geometry
  • Guidance
  • High Resolution
  • Reconnaissance
  • Shallow Water
  • Underwater Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs