GOATS'2000: Multi-scale Environmental Assessment

Abstract

LONG-TERM GOAL. Develop environmentally adaptive bi- and multi-static sonar concepts for autonomous underwater vehicle networks for detection and classification of proud and buried targets in very shallow water. OBJECTIVES. The objective of the environmental assessment component of the GOATS project is to develop integrated observation and modeling concepts for rapid environmental assessment of the shallow and very shallow water environment. Combining state-of-the-art adaptive observation capabiliies of the autonomous oceanographic sampling network (AOSN) with oceanographic modeling and data assimilaton concepts a nested environmental forecasting paradigm is developed, providing multi-scale environmental estimates for littoral mine countermeasures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1999
Accession Number
ADA630308

Entities

People

  • Henrik Schmidt

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Fields
  • Acoustic Measurement
  • Acoustic Navigation
  • Acoustic Tomography
  • Acoustics
  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Environmental Assessment
  • Navigation
  • Ocean Acoustic Tomography
  • Shallow Water
  • Three Dimensional
  • Tomography
  • Underwater Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development