Surf Zone Mapping and Sensor System

Abstract

The long-term goals of this ONR Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I and Phase II (started August 2005) effort are to develop a Surf Zone (SZ) bottom drifter measurement system that is relatively invulnerable to effects of breaking waves and that utilizes near bottom currents to provide drifter locomotion without using its own power as well as to transition the technology to support nearshore research, including model validations, and SZ naval operations. Several drifters deployed in a SZ would form a mobile SZ measurement and mapping system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2005
Accession Number
ADA610258

Entities

People

  • Marshall D. Earle

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Tracking
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Bathymetry
  • Data Analysis
  • Detectors
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Field Tests
  • Inertial Measurement Units
  • Instrumentation
  • Measurement
  • Models
  • Naval Operations
  • Offshore
  • Research Facilities
  • Small Business

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Marine Ecological Systems Migration
  • Robotics and Automation.