Optimal Deployment of Drifting Acoustic Sensors: Sensitivity of Lagrangian Coherent Structure Boundaries to Model Uncertainty

Abstract

Our long-term goal is to provide a template for the launch locations of drifting Lagrangian measurement platforms that will maximize the amount of environmental information provided by a necessarily limited number of observational resources. By coupling the geometric analysis of fluid parcel movement provided by the identification of Lagrangian coherent structure boundaries with high resolution, Lagrangian data assimilating numerical ocean models, we ultimately seek the accurate prediction of particle trajectories in the ocean. The overall goal is to develop a robust set Lagrangian analysis tools to provide synoptic information on the fate of drifting sensor packages.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2008
Accession Number
ADA534080

Entities

People

  • Andrew C. Poje

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Detectors
  • Algorithms
  • Assimilation
  • Boundaries
  • Death
  • Deployment
  • Detectors
  • Genetic Algorithms
  • High Resolution
  • Identification
  • Oceans
  • Particle Trajectories
  • Particles
  • Sensitivity
  • Statistics
  • Trajectories
  • Uncertainty

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Coastal Oceanography