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 develop a robust set Lagrangian analysis tools that provide synoptic information on the fate of drifting sensor packages.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2006
Accession Number
ADA613108

Entities

People

  • Andrew C. Poje

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Detectors
  • Assimilation
  • Boundaries
  • Computations
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Sets
  • Death
  • Deployment
  • Detectors
  • High Resolution
  • Mathematics
  • Oceans
  • Particles
  • Sensitivity
  • Statistics
  • Stratified Fluids
  • Uncertainty

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.