ISIS: a swath imaging sonar for shelf edge survey

Author

Somers, M.L. ; Bishop, D.G. ; Harris, A.J.K. ; Flewellen, C.G. ; Campbell, J.M. ; Tipping, K. ; Brockington, W. ; Rochford, G. ; Goodwin, S. ; Mountjoy, D.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Oceanogr. Sci., Deacon Lab., Wormley, UK

fYear

1994

fDate

19-21 Jul 1994

Firstpage

56

Lastpage

59

Abstract

The present project was the result of the common ambition of the two principal contractors to build a sonar for shelf edge deployment. For IOSDL it was to serve scientific interests, which can extend over the full range of ocean environments, and for Ultra it was the desire to exploit the trend to take offshore operations into deeper waters and the opportunities offered by cable and pipeline surveys. Ultra also wished to extend the application of their ASSET technology, developed on a different program. IOSDL have responsibility for the towfish, the sidescan arrays, the profiler and the auxiliary instrumentation. Ultra are providing the sonar electronics, the data acquisition and telemetry, the data recording and the analysis and display, using their ASSET technology and the TESSA workstation for display, processing and control

Keywords

acoustic arrays; bathymetry; geophysical equipment; optical links; sonar; underwater sound; ASSET technology; IOSDL; ISIS; TESSA workstation; Ultra; auxiliary instrumentation.; data acquisition; data recording; data telemetry; display; offshore operations; profiler; shelf edge survey; sidescan arrays; sonar electronics; swath imaging sonar; towfish;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Electronic Engineering in Oceanography, 1994., Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cambridge

Print_ISBN

0-85296-619-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp:19940575

Filename

337083