Utilizing Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for Seafloor Mapping, Target Identification, and Predictive Model Testing: Updated Results of the Indian Rocks Beach Experiment and Subsequent Activities

Abstract

Our long-term goal is to define and then understand how the present shallow seafloor is represented physically (texturally and topographically) and biologically (distribution/ structure of benthic communities) in the present state on small (m) and large (km) spatial scales. In conjunction, it is our long-term goal to understand how the modern seafloor evolved in geologic time to its present condition. Finally, it is our long term goal to understand the physical and biological changes of the seafloor on short temporal scales (minutes to decades) to ultimately predict and model seafloor evolution.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1998
Accession Number
ADA569321

Entities

People

  • Albert C. Hine
  • David F. Naar
  • David J. Mallinson
  • Doug Wilson
  • Guy Gelfenbaum

Organizations

  • University of South Florida

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Boundary Layer
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • High Energy
  • Identification
  • Measurement
  • Navigation
  • Oceanography
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Remote Sensing
  • Seabed
  • Sedimentation
  • Side Looking Sonar
  • Underwater Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Oceanography.