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Subsea Surveying, Positioning, and Foundation

Yong Bai , Qiang Bai , in Subsea Engineering Handbook (Second Edition), 2019

iv.ii.2.ii Side-Scan Sonar

Side-scan sonar is a category of sonar organization that is used to efficiently create an image of large areas of the seafloor. This tool is used for mapping the seabed for a broad variety of purposes, including creation of nautical charts and detection and identification of underwater objects and bathymetric features. Side-scan sonar imagery is also a ordinarily used tool to find debris and other obstructions on the seafloor that may be hazardous to shipping or to seafloor installations for subsea field development. In addition, the status of pipelines and cables on the seafloor can exist investigated using side-scan sonar. Side-scan data are often acquired along with bathymetric soundings and sub-bottom profiler data, thus providing a glimpse of the shallow structure of the seabed.

A high-precision, dual-frequency side-scan sonar organization tin obtain seabed information along the routes for instance, anchor/trawl board scours, big boulders, droppings, bottom sediment changes, and any item on the seabed having a horizontal dimension in excess of 1.64 ft (0.five 1000). Side-browse sonar systems consist of a dual-channel tow-fish capable of operating in the water depths for the survey and incorporate a tracking system. The equipment is utilise to obtain consummate coverage of the specified areas and operates at scales commensurate with line spacing, optimum resolution, and 100% data overlap.

The pinnacle of the tow-fish above the seabed and the speed of the vessel are adjusted to ensure full coverage of the survey surface area. The maximum tow-fish height is 15% of the range setting. Recorder settings are continuously monitored to ensure optimum data quality. Onboard interpretation of all contacts identified during the survey is undertaken by a geophysicist suitably experienced in side-browse sonar interpretation.

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Local Scour and Protection of Marine Structures

Ye Yincan et al , in Marine Geo-Hazards in Communist china, 2017

3.one.4 Side Scan Sonar Detection Engineering science

Side scan sonar detection technology mainly makes use of acoustic imaging to clarify the scour of marine structures. The earliest elevate-type underwater sonar organisation originated in the United Kingdom in the 1920s; it was mainly used for the detection of mines and other military machine objectives. At the cease of the 1950s, the side scan sonar was applied in marine geological survey. By the 1990s, digital sonar had been successfully adult, and meanwhile the linear frequency modulation engineering science had also been practical. Side browse sonar engineering science tin directly provide the acoustic imaging of seabed morphology; therefore it has been widely applied in submarine engineering science detection, peculiarly in submarine pipeline inspection.

Side scan sonar through the transducer emits depression-incident angle fan-shaped beam of loftier-frequency audio-visual pulse to the seabed at both ends along the shipping tracks, and and so receives the repeat indicate, according to the repeat signal intensity to form the seabed acoustic paradigm chart. The sonar records reflect the echo reflection (handful) force, then the negative terrain of seabed surface such as the scour groove's lesser no-sound wave is reflected back, it shows blank in the sonar records; for the positive terrain such as the seabed hill, its rear sound wave can't reach to form the then-called "shadow," and information technology besides shows the same bare in the sonar records. By the working characteristics of side scan sonar, information technology can be used for the detection of submarine pipeline country, including the height of pipeline exposing out of the seabed, suspended span height of pipeline, and scour state.

According to the principle of side browse sonar, the height of underwater object (pipeline) tin be determined by unproblematic geometry (Fig. 8.45).

The exposure of submarine pipeline can be calculated by the following equation:

(8.31) $H = \frac{S h}{R + Due south}$

where H is the height of pipeline exposing out of the seabed, S is the pipeline shadow length, R is the slant altitude from transducer to pipeline, h is the altitude from transducer to seabed surface; H, R, and S tin can be obtained past sonar records. The sonar detection schematic diagram Fig. eight.46 shows the pipeline exposing out of seabed. Considering the acoustic reflectivity of pipeline is significantly greater than the seabed, so the pipeline shows the black color with high force in the sonar records, its rear is the shadow expanse that the acoustic moving ridge can't reach, it is the white color in sonar records, so that through the measurement of H, R, and Due south, we tin directly obtain the peak of pipeline exposing out of the seabed.

If the submarine pipeline is in pause state, its rear area will form a "shadow," but because the pipeline has a certain distance from the seabed, and so the pipeline's "shadow" volition not appear immediately behind the pipeline simply appears after a certain distance (Fig. 8.47). Making apply of Eq. (8.31) can also conveniently calculate the suspended span height; if the side scan sonar detects forth the seabed pipeline direction, we can obtain the suspended span length.

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Deep-sea Sediments

Thierry Mulder , ... A.J. Van Loon , in Developments in Sedimentology, 2011

iii.1.ii Side-browse sonar

A side-scan sonar (Figs. i.2B and 1.iii) is a deep-towed acoustic system that are used mainly to map the morphology and composition of the ocean floor. This equipment is essential to identify small (metre-range) sedimentary features. They either record the returned indicate from an audio-visual beam transmitted by the tool, or the backscatter from the sea floor. The backscatter signal is a function of the topography and particularly of the sea-flooring gradient, which influences the angle of incidence and the nature of the ocean floor. The principal types of a side-browse sonar devices used for sedimentological investigation operate at frequencies from 65 to 500 kHz and are listed in Tabular array 1.2.

Tabular array 1.two. Primary features of a side-browse sonar (from Masson, 2003).

Side-scan sonar	Frequency (Hz)	Swath (km)	Resolution (one thousand)	Towing speed (knots)
Low frequency	6–12	up to 45	few ten' (cross-track), 10'due south–100'southward (along track)	10
Middle frequency	30	2–six	1–two (cross track), 10–forty (forth track)	<two–3
High frequency	x–500	0.1–1.5	1 (cross- and along track)	<ii

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Perspectives on Submarine Geomorphology: An Introduction

Alessandra Savini , ... Aaron Micallef , in Reference Module in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, 2021

2.2 Side scan sonar (SSS)

The SSS system can be considered as the outset acoustic device capable of imaging the seafloor (Tucker and Stubbs, 1961; Footstep, 1963; Stride et al., 1972). Pursuant to its emission of a pulse of acoustic energy, SSS amplifies and records the intensity of backscattering from the seafloor, generating a sonograph that tin can be deemed like to aerial photography on land (Blondel, 2009; Klaucke, 2018). The arrangement consists of a "towfish" (equipped with transducers) continued via a cable to a shipboard recording device and towed behind the vessel at a constant distance from the seafloor. The towfish-seafloor distance is set up according to an operating range that defines the width of the seabed area covered by the resulting sonograph.

A distinction is made between high frequency SSS systems that tin piece of work at a dual frequency, between 100 and a maximum of ca. m kHz, and depression-frequency systems (i.e., long-range systems) that operate downwards to less than 30 kHz (encounter Table one from Blondel, 2009). From the 1960s, the Geological Long-Range Inclined Asdic (GLORIA) collected data across 60 km wide sonographs using a 6.5 kHz indicate. GLORIA was used to map the entire Sectional Economical Zone of the The states (e.m., EEZ-Scan 84 Scientific Staff 1986) besides equally big portions of the global seafloor (Rusby, 1970; Gardner et al., 1996) from 1984 onwards (Micallef et al., 2021). Critical information were obtained early regarding the role that submarine mass-movements (Prior et al., 1982), turbidity currents (Damuth et al., 1983), and abyssal thermo-haline lesser currents (Heezen et al., 1966) accept in eroding, transporting, and depositing sediment and, therefore, first insights into deep-sea, along-slope and downslope morpho-sedimentary processes have been easier to recognize. Abyssal sedimentary environments accept been depicted in detail, showing the variety of landforms that course their architectural elements (Stow, 1985).

Higher frequencies are employed for shallow h2o mapping applications (especially for search and recovery operations and habitat mapping) but are rarely used in deeper areas due to the difficulty associated with keeping light transducers close to the seafloor, with hundreds of meters of (coaxial) tow cable overboard (Savini, 2011). To operate in a deep environment, a high-frequency SSS system must exist integrated within AUV or ROV. Modern high (dual) frequency SSS devices offer very high-resolution images of the seabed on which objects and landforms, on the club of a few centimeters, may be detected at a variable range, generally from a few meters (frequency > 100 kHz) upward to 600 k (frequency ≈ 100 kHz) on either side of a two-fish (the total sonograph width is double the operating range).

Copious scientific literature has been produced for investigating the dependence of acoustic backscattering on the diverse physical, geometric, and geological/environmental parameters that define the acoustic response of the different components that narrate the seafloor on sonographs, providing backscattering models. In an effort to make SSS estimation a function of quantitative assay, many authors have reported the use of paradigm texture processing algorithms (i.east., a co-occurrence matrix - Haralick et al., 1973) to discriminate regions of dissimilar seabed types (Blondel et al., 1998; Savini et al., 2014; Blondel, 2018 among others). The association of ground-truth information (sediment samples and/or video recording and still images) to the audio-visual facies provides disquisitional information for aiding in the estimation of sonographs. Still, qualitative interpretations of audio-visual imagery are increasingly supported by the quantitative analyses of backscatter. The integration of seafloor imagery obtained from SSS surveys with a high resolution DTM obtained from MBES surveys, provides an excellent morphosedimentary model of the seabed and the virtually representative portrait nosotros tin take of the underwater mural.

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Geomorphological Mapping

Aaron Micallef , in Developments in Earth Surface Processes, 2011

2.1.ii Side-Scan Sonar

The side-scan sonar is a category of sonar system that is used to create an image of big areas of the seafloor. The arrangement consists of a sonar device that is towed from a research vessel and emits fan-shaped pulses downward towards the seafloor across a broad angle perpendicular to the path of a sensor. The intensity of the acoustic reflections from the seafloor is recorded as a series of cross-rails slices that have a nominal resolution of tens of centimetres. Acoustic soundings take been principally used to obtain information about seafloor morphology, although recent studies take shown that they can reveal additional information on surface sediment properties, such as density, water/sediment density ratios, texture, compaction, porosity and benthic vegetation comprehend (Urick, 1975; Mitchell and Clarke, 1994; Medialdea et al., 2008).

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Geophysical prospection and sedimentological characteristics of subaquatic seismic sea wave deposits

Klaus Schwarzer , in Geological Records of Tsunamis and Other Extreme Waves, 2020

Reflection seismic

MBs and SSS systems efficiently deliver high-resolution images of the seafloor, but they do not image sub-seafloor atmospheric condition. Thus, sediment echo sounding is used to transmit audio pulses vertically to the bottom and receiving reflected signals from the seafloor and from subsurface sediment layers, illuminating the sub-seafloor geological architecture and the thickness and lateral distribution of certain layers over large areas. The depth to which seismic reflections can be detected depends on the penetration depth of the seismic signal, which is a function of the energy of the source, the operating frequency, and the physical nature of the geological layers. Considering Holocene tsunami deposits are more often than not thin, systems operating with high frequencies are commonly used considering the focus needs to be set to high vertical resolution instead of deep penetration. A boomer system, typically operating with a bandwidth ranging from one to 10 kHz and providing a vertical resolution of near 25 cm, is an appropriate tool (Fig. 7.5) (Feldens et al., 2012; Riou et al., 2020). The disadvantage of this arrangement is that it requires two components simultaneously in the water: the sound source and the hydrophone array, which are both towed behind the vessel either at or close to the water surface, which makes data conquering very sensitive to the state of the sea surface.

Recently, parametric echo sounders have been used for collecting high-resolution data in shallow water, as in Sendai Bay after the 2011 Tōhoku Seismic sea wave (Yoshikawa et al., 2015). These systems transmit focused low-frequency signals of slightly different, higher frequencies at loftier audio pressures in spite of pocket-size transducer dimensions (Wunderlich and Müller, 2003). They operate with just one component fixed to the gunkhole, either hull- or side-mounted, and positioned in the water column close to the sea surface. Systems such as these are often connected to a motility sensor and DGPS positioning. They are modest, do not crave an extra ability supply and are easy to handle fifty-fifty on minor boats. Seismic methods are near powerful for geological and sedimentological investigations when they are combined with other methods such as SSSs and sediment sampling and/or coring.

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Introduction

Derman Dondurur , in Acquisition and Processing of Marine Seismic Data, 2018

1.ii.2 Side-Scan Sonar

Side-scan sonar is the system that provides high-resolution seafloor morphology from both sides of the vessel track. The sonar data, often called sonographs, are acquired using a transducer pair mounted on a deep-towed tow-fish, i for the port side and the other for the starboard side. Table 1.4 shows the general specifications of side-scan sonar systems. A sonar record is used for various purposes, mainly to identify the morphological changes (such as large- or modest-calibration slides) and natural or human-fabricated targets (like gas seeps or pipelines) on the seabed.

Table one.4. Specifications of Side-Scan Sonar Systems Used to Obtain Morphology of the Seafloor

Arrangement	Frequency (kHz)	Penetration Depth (one thousand)	Applications
Side-scan sonar	10–1000	None	• Seafloor morphology • Gas bubbles in second • Reflectivity of the seafloor • Geological mapping • Underwater archaeology • Targets within the water column • Pipeline inspection

Fig. 1.10 schematically illustrates the principle of side-scan sonar data acquisition. Both transducers use one single beam, which is very narrow in the horizontal plane (approximately 1 caste), and wide in the vertical plane (approximately 40 degrees). Side-browse sonar provides very high-resolution morphologic data from the seafloor. Since information technology utilizes a high-frequency acoustic signal, it is compulsory to deploy the transducers on a deep-towed tow-fish independent from the 3D movements of the survey vessel, which considerably increases the data quality. Towing of the transducers at a certain altitude from the seafloor besides ensures that the signal is less affected by the heterogeneities within the water column. The distance of the tow-fish from the seafloor is kept constant past the operation of a side-scan sonar winch used to adjust the length of the tow-cable in existent time during the acquisition. The total length of the cable paid out depends on the water depth and survey speed. The altitude of the tow-fish is kept between 10% and 20% of the full sonar range, and the cable pay-out is adjusted accordingly during the survey equally the water depth changes along the route.

Both port and starboard transducers emit a narrow beam to each side at time nada so the system starts to record all the amplitudes that get in at both transducers immediately after transmission. Each emitted beam is also perceived by the transducers during the recording, and forms an extremely loftier-aamplitude input at the zero fourth dimension, chosen the output signal. Then the beams start to travel at both sides of the tow-fish abroad from the transducers. The outset meaningful return is generally from the seafloor close to the tow-fish. Since the travel of the signal to and from the seafloor will take some time, depending on the tow-fish distance, and since near no indicate amplitude is transmitted in a vertical direction due to the directional pattern of the emitted signal, in that location volition be a bare zone between the output indicate and the seabed return, which corresponds to the time span for the sonar signal to travel through the water cavalcade to the seafloor and dorsum to the tow-fish. This blank zone is indicated by the water cavalcade in Fig. one.10. Subsequent to this blank (and in about cases, amplitude complimentary) zone, the seafloor return will go far at the transducers. After that, returns from progressively distal ranges of the seafloor are successively received past the transducers. Returned amplitudes are recorded into the disk files starting from time zero to the end of the recording for both sides, after converting their inflow time to one-manner distance from the tow-fish. Fig. 1.11 shows a sonar tow-fish and a shallow water sonograph with modest boulders on a sandy seafloor.

The starting time time of the recording, the time zero, is the time that the transducers emit the beams at both sides of the tow-fish. The maximum recording distance is termed the sonar range. The distances are commonly measured along a slanted range from the transducers and practice non represent to horizontal distances, only can exist converted into horizontal distances after a specific correction, termed the slant-range correction.

The returned signal to the sonar tow-fish is termed backscatter, not the reflection, and is composed of backscattered energy because of the roughness of the sediment particles on the seafloor. This roughness acts equally a diffractor, which scatters the energy in all directions, including the tow-fish direction. About of the emitted energy from the transducers is reflected away from the tow-fish direction, since the reflection angle equals to the incidence angle. However, there will always exist some amount of backscattered energy, which returns to the tow-fish, is perceived by the transducers, and is recorded by the sonar recording unit. The aamplitude of the backscatter is the master information received and recorded by the sonar organisation, and is used to discriminate dissimilar types of seafloor sediments, since the backscatter amplitudes (in addition to the seafloor topography) are directly associated with the particle sizes (roughness) and composition of the seabed sediments. For instance, a mutual order of sediment roughness from low to high may be dirt, silty clay, silt, silty sand, fine sand, and coarse sand. Therefore, each of these unlike sediment compositions scatters a unlike corporeality of energy back to the tow-fish unit and hence they appear in dissimilar greyness shades in the sonographs.

Each bespeak emission is termed a ping. Sonographs consist of several successive pings along the route of the tow-fish, and seafloor reflectivity is demonstrated as the maps of gray shades, which are proportional to the amplitude of the returned signal. By and large 8-fleck grayscale mapping is used, which allows the utilise of 256 dissimilar gray tones between blackness and white. In general, a high-amplitude return (i.e., loftier backscatter) is shown as black, or vice versa. Modern conquering and processing software offers the apply of different color patterns to brandish the sonographs for a amend assay of the small-scale targets. The targets with a positive relief on the seafloor foreclose the signal from penetrating dorsum of the targets, constituting an amplitude-free shadow zone, which enables us to discriminate targets too as their heights from the seafloor. In do, sonar data is collected along several parallel lines with a certain amount of overlap (e.thou., 10% of the sonar range). At the finish of the survey, these parallel lines are merged to produce one big reflectivity map of the seafloor, termed the sonar mosaic.

Every bit is the instance in multibeam echosounders, the horizontal resolution of the side-scan sonar system is defined in along- and across-runway directions. Along-runway resolution is the minimum distance in which ii parallel targets on the seafloor lying along the survey line can be distinguished equally two split up objects. Similarly, beyond-track resolution is defined as the minimum distance in which two parallel targets on the seafloor lying perpendicular to the survey line tin can exist detected every bit two separate objects. Beyond-track resolution is a role of beam width, signal frequency and pulse length, while along-rail resolution depends on ping charge per unit and survey speed.

We tin classify side-scan sonar systems into three categories based on their maximum ranges as brusk-, medium- and long-range sonars. As a general dominion for the sonar systems, maximum range decreases every bit the operating frequency increases. The long-range systems are towed at shallower depths shut to the sea surface, whereas short- and mid-range systems are of higher resolution and must be towed at pocket-sized altitudes close to the seafloor. Full general properties of these systems are equally follows:

•: Short-range side-scan sonar systems employ beams with a relatively high frequency range betwixt 250 and 1000 kHz and are by and large used to map an area of approximately maximum 250 m per side. They are mostly operated at shallow waters in continental shelves and provide very loftier-resolution seabed images, generally delineating the small natural structures and man-made small-scale-scale targets.
•: Medium-range systems operate at a 50–250 kHz frequency band and generally have a maximum range of approximately i km per side. These systems are used to map continental slopes and relatively deep water areas.
•: Long-range sonar systems utilize relatively low-frequency signals (generally around ten kHz) and provide morphologic data up to twenty km range per side. They are used in reconnaissance surveys to quickly map relatively large areas in considerably lower resolution.

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Submarine Shallow Natural Gas

Ye Yincan et al , in Marine Geo-Hazards in China, 2017

2.2.ii Submarine Shallow Gas Identification on Seabed Acoustic Image

The seabed acoustic images collected by side browse sonar, bathymetry, sub-lesser profiling, and other acoustic methods can also be used to place the submarine shallow gas. They mainly include such seabed features equally the negative seabed pockmarks and positive seabed uplift, diapir, mud volcano, and strong reflection seabed (Judd and Hovland, 1992).

"Pockmarks" refers to the craters acquired by seabed fluid (in nearly cases gas) seepage at seabed; Rex and Mclean (1970) first proposed this term in 1970. The size of pockmarks depends on the backdrop of seabed sediments and the strength of shallow gas; its horizontal size mostly tin exist from several meters to hundreds of meters, and its depth can be from less than 1 one thousand to more than than 20 m (Judd and Hovland, 1992). For example, there are pockmarks caused past the submarine shallow gas seepage in some areas in northern S China Sea, with many forms including round, oval, dish, and basin; they are distributed in groups or equally individual pockmarks; their general width is tens of meters with depth of ii–3 g (Fig. eleven.20) (Ye et al., 2003). Numerous mega-pockmarks, of average diameter 1640 yard and average depth of 96.7 m (45 pockmarks), accept been observed in Xisha Uplift, northwestern Due south China Sea; the largest has a maximum bore of 3210 m, and the deepest has a maximum depth of 165.ii thousand (Dominicus et al., 2011). There are also pockmarks reported in Zhoushan waters (Fig. 11.21) and southern Yellow Sea (Gu et al., 2006). The pockmarks on the audio-visual sub-bottom profile often show "V" blazon (Fig. eleven.xvi).

The seabed uplift acquired by shallow gas generally has small top (1–two thou), merely the diameter can be more than 100 m, which is believed to be the initial stage of pockmarks development. There is a theory that considering the shallow gas replaces the water in seabed shallow sediment pore, so the volume increases to cause the seabed to have a dome-shaped bulge (Judd and Hovland, 1992). When the shallow gas seeps to the seabed, but strength is not great, the shallow gas can also lift the sub-lesser sediment, and class the raised terrain with modest top and irregular shape; this has been found in Yangtze River estuary area, which can be identified on the side browse sonar, bathymetric, and acoustic sub-bottom profiling records (Fig. 11.22).

Equally the shallow gas continues to accrue at seabed with increased strength, information technology tin course the diapir (Fig. 11.12). When the weather condition are right, gas farther moves upward and seeps out of the seabed and forms the mud volcano at seabed, which is easy to identify on the seismic and acoustic profiles (Figs. 11.8, 11.9, and 11.xiii–11.15). The uplift topography and different material compositions from the surrounding sediment of mud volcano go far easy to be identified in the loftier-resolution multibeam bathymetric data (three-dimensional terrain model) (Fig. xi.23); it can as well be identified from the seabed repeat intensity prototype.

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Southern West Coast of Canada

Brenda Burd , ... Richard Thomson , in Earth Seas: an Environmental Evaluation (Second Edition), 2019

14.4 Sedimentary Regimes

Substrates in the SoG have been modeled from multibeam, side-scan sonar, and grab samples (Burd, Johannessen, Macdonald, & van Roodselaar, 2014; Galloway, 2008) (Fig. 14.three). Clague (2014) describes the origin and types of modern sediments in the SoG. Deposits from complete glaciation of southern BC during the last ice historic period include extensive sand beaches on the west coast of 6. Deposition of finer glacial sediments is extensive throughout the Fraser River watershed. Most of the postglacial silt and sand (~ 17 m tonnes year^{− 1}) entering the SoG is from the Fraser River (Colina et al., 2008). The delta front is growing upwardly to half dozen m year^{− 1} (Loma et al., 2008). Heavier material is deposited close to the mouth of the river, with fines transported due north and downslope. High sedimentation as well occurs south of the river in the deep basin from the freshet feather (~ ten m thick; Fig. 14.iv), and from upwelled glacial sands around the southern Gulf Islands (Johannessen, Macdonald, & Eek, 2005), creating a patchy mosaic of mixed sand and silt (Fig. 14.3). North of Texada Island (Fig. 14.two) is narrow and shallow (< 200 thousand) creating a bulwark to bottom-transported particulates from the Fraser. Sedimentation and organic flux is mainly from marine detritus, and therefore much lower than in the southern bowl. Mainland fjords have sediment input from snowmelt and glacier runoff (www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/SCI/osap/projects/bcinlets) in summertime, whereas sedimentation in the Half-dozen inlets is by and large from river belch during winter rains. Turbidity in mainland fjords can exist intense seasonally from delta slope failures (Bornhold, Ren, & Prior, 1994; Farrow, Syvitski, & Tunnicliffe, 1983). The sedimenting material may also arise from marine detritus or terrigenous erosion of cliffs.

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Bounding main Interfaces & Human Impacts

Michael Fifty. Brennan , ... Robert D. Ballard , in Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences (Third Edition), 2019

Marine Methodologies

Finding shipwrecks has always been a challenge. The introduction of side-scan sonar in the 1960s immune surveys to be conducted acoustically, broadening areas that could be covered. Martin Klein, one of the developers of commercial side-scan sonar systems, assisted in some of the early discoveries of shipwrecks with sonar, including Mary Rose in 1967 and some the wrecks off Turkey with George Bass. Diverse magnetic sensors accept been used effectively over the years in locating sunken shipwreck sites having a ferrous signature. This is particularly true for warships with big cannons aboard. Magnetometers have also proved effective in locating buried objects in extremely shallow water, on beaches, and beneath coastal dunes.

Over the years, a variety of changes have taken place with regard to the actual documentation of a wreck site. Beginning in the early on 1960s, various stereophotogrammetry techniques were used. Technology for mapping has developed over the past few decades to where photomosaic mapping surveys can be conducted from stereo cameras mounted to an ROV. The results of such work produce detailed, high resolution imagery of shipwrecks consisting of hundreds or thousands of full resolution photographs digitally stitched together so accurately that sub-cm measurements can be made. Linked to microbathymetry information collected from ROV-mounted multibeam sonars, these mosaics can exist draped over 3D bathymetry of the wreck sites and color corrected for accurate models of the sites.

Every bit engineering for underwater work has improved, maritime archæology has gained access to sites in deep water through advances in submersibles and remotely operated vehicles. Yet, 2 technologies take further broadened the discipline's ability to discover, document, and interpret sites in the deep. The development of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) technology allows for more efficient surveys that does non crave a survey vessel to tow sonars, only instead house the sensors in a contained vessel that tin be programmed to conduct surveys and return to the gunkhole or location near shore. Recent well-known AUV projects include the 2010 mapping of the RMS Titanic site and the 2017 discovery and mapping of USS Indianapolis. The 2nd new engineering science is telepresence, whereby live video and information from expeditions is streamed via a satellite connection to scientists, students, classrooms, and the full general public back on shore and across the world. This capability allows for a number of advantages while conducting archeological assessments and excavation. Offset, telepresence allows endless numbers of archeologists and scientists to participate in the piece of work direct simply remotely, enabling a collection of experts to lend their advice and noesis to the projection in real fourth dimension. Second, this engineering science brings live scientific discipline and archaeology direct to the public to engage them in the work. The deep h2o excavation of the Monterrey A shipwreck site in the Gulf of Mexico by archeologists from NOAA and BOEM was the first shipwreck excavation conducted live in front of a public audience. This connectivity can greatly heighten how archeology is conducted in remote locations and how it is messaged to public audiences, directly and live rather than months or years later on.

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Nobody Reads Side Scan Sonar and Fish Shadows Right!

Subsea Surveying, Positioning, and Foundation

iv.ii.2.ii Side-Scan Sonar

Local Scour and Protection of Marine Structures

3.one.4 Side Scan Sonar Detection Engineering science

Deep-sea Sediments

iii.1.ii Side-browse sonar

Perspectives on Submarine Geomorphology: An Introduction

2.2 Side scan sonar (SSS)

Geomorphological Mapping

2.1.ii Side-Scan Sonar

Geophysical prospection and sedimentological characteristics of subaquatic seismic sea wave deposits

Reflection seismic

Introduction

1.ii.2 Side-Scan Sonar

Submarine Shallow Natural Gas

2.2.ii Submarine Shallow Gas Identification on Seabed Acoustic Image

Southern West Coast of Canada

14.4 Sedimentary Regimes

Bounding main Interfaces & Human Impacts

Marine Methodologies

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Subsea Surveying, Positioning, and Foundation

iv.ii.2.ii Side-Scan Sonar

Local Scour and Protection of Marine Structures

3.one.4 Side Scan Sonar Detection Engineering science

Deep-sea Sediments

iii.1.ii Side-browse sonar

Perspectives on Submarine Geomorphology: An Introduction

2.2 Side scan sonar (SSS)

Geomorphological Mapping

2.1.ii Side-Scan Sonar

Geophysical prospection and sedimentological characteristics of subaquatic seismic sea wave deposits

Reflection seismic

Introduction

1.ii.2 Side-Scan Sonar

Submarine Shallow Natural Gas

2.2.ii Submarine Shallow Gas Identification on Seabed Acoustic Image

Southern West Coast of Canada

14.4﻿ Sedimentary Regimes

Bounding main Interfaces & Human Impacts

Marine Methodologies

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