REMUS Subbottom Image Processing for Integration into ArcGIS

Abstract

The Naval Oceanographic Office collects subbottom acoustic data using the Remote Environmental Monitoring Units (REMUS) Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). The subbottom data are processed using customized playback software that creates a subbottom profile image that can be integrated into ArcGIS 9.2. A REMUS AUV test survey was recently completed that obtained quality subbottom profiler data that were used to demonstrate this image integration approach. Recent improvements in the processing software developed at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have been used to decrease the time and effort required to efficiently utilize and integrate the subbottom profile imagery into the ArcGIS 9.2 product. This new software allows multiple subbottom images to be easily added to the ArcGIS 9.2 project while at sea, providing a more complete representation of the REMUS survey. The efficient integration of the subbottom imagery into an ArcGIS 9.2 project is a significant step in providing a more improved product.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 29, 2009
Accession Number
ADA513857

Entities

People

  • David C. Young
  • Donald J. Walter
  • Dove W. Green Iii

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Altitude
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Batch Processing
  • Bathymetry
  • Data Acquisition
  • Environmental Monitoring
  • High Resolution
  • Image Processing
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Military Research
  • Navigation
  • Seabed
  • Three Dimensional
  • Underwater Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Computer Vision.
  • Database Systems and Applications