Seafloor Survey Around the Atlantis 2 Seamounts Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

Abstract

A comprehensive seafloor and sub-bottom survey using an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) equipped with a variety of acoustic and optical sensors was conducted in the Atlantis II Seamounts area. The AUV sensors include a multibeam echo sounder (MBES), sidescan sonar (SSS), sub-bottom profiler (SBP) and still image camera. The primary project objective is to determine mooring anchor landing locations with high confidence of not hitting endangered cold-water corals. The survey data can also support the following scientific goals: seafloor geoacoustic property estimation from sonar signal returns and seafloor object identification from cross-platform observation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 30, 2023
Accession Number
AD1205117

Entities

People

  • Ying-Tsong Lin

Organizations

  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acoustics
  • Acquisition
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Collision Avoidance
  • Data Acquisition
  • Detectors
  • Environment
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Gulf Stream
  • Inertial Measurement Units
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Seabed
  • Side Looking Sonar
  • Sonar
  • Statistics
  • Underwater Vehicles
  • World Geodetic System

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Oceanography.