Proceedings of MTS/IEEE Oceans'96 Conference

Broward County Convention Center, Fort Lauderdale, FloridaSeptember 23-26, 1996

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Nontechnical content
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  Program:Prospects for the 21st century

Supplementary proceedings
Underwater acoustic communication utilising parametric transduction with M-ary DPSK modulation,  Ming Zheng, Rodney F. W. Coates, Liansheng Wang, and Richard Stoner,  pp. 1-7
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary,  Jim Jacobs,  p. 8
Examining ERS-1 SAR wave estimates using the quasi-linear SAR transform and aircraft ROWS data,  Vincent Kerbaol, Bertrand Chapron, René Garello, Douglas Vandemark, and Paris W. Vachon,  pp. 9-13
Structural restoration of two coral reefs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary,  Tim Osborn, Kevin Bodge, Miles Croom, Mark Schroeder, and Charlie Wahle,  pp. 14-17
Methods of predicting the effects of a dynamic deployment system on fibre optic cables,  Stephen Andrew Caldwell,  pp. 18-23
Entire operating envelope H-infinity design for an unmanned underwater vehicle,  Donald Cowling,  pp. 24-29
The development of autonomous underwater vehicle based survey and sampling capabilities for coastal exploration,  S. M. Smith, E. An, D. Kronen, K. Ganesan, J. Park, and S. E. Dunn,  pp. 30-35
Near real-time applications for NSCAT ocean wind measurements,  W. Linwood Jones, Michael Spencer, and Paul Chang,  pp. 36-39
Spatial coherence methods in undersea image formation and detection,  Frank M. Caimi, Bernard C. Bailey, and Joel H. Blatt,  pp. 40-46
In-situ far-field calibration of multibeam sonar arrays for precise backscatter imagery,  Larry Fusillo, Christian de Moustier, John H. Satriano, and Stanley Zietz,  pp. 47-49
The two-scale model for random rough surface scattering,  A. Khenchaf, F. Daout, and J. Saillard,  pp. 50-54
An overview of the U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center's contributions to marine technology,  Bert Macesker and Gerald Timpe,  pp. 55-62
Compression techniques for improving underwater acoustic transmission of images and data,  Robert L. Eastwood, Lee E. Freitag, and Josko A. Catipovic,  pp. 63-68
A review of recent underwater imaging methods and advancements,  Frank M. Caimi,  pp. 69-71
The treatment of ship bilge, ballast and dock rain-water run-off by an electroxTM process,  Leland G. Cole,  pp. 72-74
Developments in laser-line scanned undersea surface mapping and image analysis systems for scientific applications,  Frank M. Caimi, Donna M. Kocak, and Vernon L. Asper,  pp. 75-81
A block coding scheme for CDMA digital radio communication systems based on terminated convolutional codes,  Jamshid Khun Jush,  pp. 82-83
Laser line scan system operations during the TWA flight 800 search effort,  Edward J. Saade and Drew Carey,  pp. 84-86
Acoustic communications system for the AMMT program,  Lee E. Freitag, Josko A. Catipovic, and Robert L. Eastwood,  pp. 87-92
Avoiding fiber axial compression fatigue in the design and use of tension members,  John F. Flory,  pp. 93-104
Measurement of turbulent sound speed fluctuations with an acoustic travel-time meter,  William J. Shaw, Albert J. Williams III, and John H. Trowbridge,  pp. 105-110
A new generation of multibeam sweeping echosounder for surveying-ATLAS FANSWEEP 20,  Thomas Weber,  pp. 111-123
Floating-point nonlinear DSP coprocessor cell--Two cycle chip,  V. K. Jain and L. Lin,  pp. 124-133
Newfoundland-499 years of ocean industry development: Opportunities for collaboration,  Charles Randell, Brian McShane, and Robert Robinson,  pp. 134-136
A towed, undulating CTD system,  Timothy F. Pfeiffer,  pp. 137-140
An autonomous turbulence measurement platform,  Ken Holappa and Manhar Dhanak,  pp. 141-144

VOLUME 1

  Program:Prospects for the 21st century

Shallow water acoustics I - Acoustics & international waves in shallow water
Chair(s): M. K. Broadhead, US Naval Research Laboratory; K. B. Smith, US Naval Post Graduate School
Modal characteristics of acoustic signal fluctuations induced by shallow water internal waves,  Ji-Xun Zhou, Xue-Zhen Zhang, and Peter H. Rogers,  pp. 1-8
The internal waves effect on the noise vertical directionality in shallow water,  T. C. Yang and Azmi Al-Kurd,  pp. 9-16
Shallow water internal-wave field model for underwater acoustics,  Boris G. Katsnelson and Sergey A. Pereselkov,  pp. 17-22
Bottom reflection inversion in shallow-water using the WKB modal condition,  E. C. Shang, Y. Y. Wang, and Shaobo Sun,  pp. 23-28
Oceanographic ships
Chair(s): J. F. Bash, UNOLS; J. Bunce, U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office
Requirements and capabilities of modern fishery research ships,  William C. Phoel and James Meehan,  pp. 29-36
R/V SEWARD JOHNSON lengthening midbody addition results in added general oceanographic capabilities while retaining undersea vehicle support features,  Tim Askew,  pp. 37-39
Marine weather forecasting
Chair(s): P. Moersdorf, U.S. Naval Met. & Oceanographic Center; W. L. Jones, Florida Inst. of Tech.
Classification of cloud patterns in weather satellite imagery using adaptive algorithms,  Claude S. Lindquist and Daniel A. Tealdi,  pp. 40-44
Oceanic winds estimated from underwater ambient noise observations in SWADE,  Ram Vakkayil, Hans C. Graber, and William G. Large,  pp. 45-51
Vehicle support
Chair(s): D. Yoerger, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.; J. Walton, NCCOSC
Ship to ROV telemetry for Tiburon,  Mark R. Chaffey,  pp. 52-58
An integrated approach to multiple AUV communications, navigation and docking,  Hanumant Singh, Josko Catipovic, Robert Eastwood, Lee Freitag, Henrich Henriksen, Franz Hover, Dana Yoerger, James G. Bellingham, and Bradley A. Moran,  pp. 59-64
Development of a virtual environment based training system for ROV pilots,  Barbara Fletcher and Stewart Harris,  pp. 65-71
Communications & telemetry I
Chair(s): L. Estes, Univ. of Mass.; J. Illgen, Illgen Simulation Technologies
Real time digital data communication system for a remotely operated ADCP,  Jeffrey M. Bufkin and Ulises Rivero,  pp. 72-75
Fiber optic data telemetry for Deepsea Research, the new system on the German RV "SONNE",  Hans Amann and Thomas Liebe,  pp. 76-86
Laser beam propagation through the ocean's surface,  Lee E. Estes, Gilbert Fain, and Joseph D. Harris II,  pp. 87-94
Results of ADS communications testing,  Gregory W. Johnson and David Pietraszewski,  pp. 95-104
State of current measurement systems
Chair(s): A. J. Williams, 3rd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.; G. Appell, NOAA/NOS
Current measurement technology development progress in the '90s- A review,  Albert J. Williams III,  pp. 105-109
A new design of trawl resistant bottom mount for miniaturized ADCP current meters,  H. H. Shih and Gerald F. Appell,  pp. 110-115
Cabling and mooring a remotely operated ADCP for real-time data acquisition,  Joseph R. Bishop and W. Paul Dammann,  pp. 116-119
Vector Measuring Current Meter (VMCM) upgrade,  Bryan S. Way, David S. Hosom, Jonathan D. Ware, Richard P. Trask, and Geoffrey P. Allsup,  pp. 120-124
US-Russia workshop
Chair(s): J. Vadus, NOAA/NOS(Ret.); R. Abel, Consultant
Results of United States-Russia workshop in ocean and oceanic atmosphere technology,  Robert B. Abel, Edmond D. Pope, Joseph R. Vadus, and Vladimir E. Zuev,  pp. 125-137
Ropes & tension members I
Chair(s): J. F. Flory, Tension Technology International, Inc.; R. Bosman, AKZO Nobel Industrial Yarns, Netherlands
Fiber interactions in a twisted fiber structure under tension,  Ning Pan,  pp. 138-143
Recent developments in nondestructive evaluation of steel strands and cables using magnetostrictive sensors,  Hegeon Kwun, John J. Hanley, and Keith A. Bartels,  pp. 144-148
Shallow water acoustics II - Sensing the bottom
Chair(s): N. P. Chotiros, ARL, Univ. of Texas; P. C. Hines, Defence Research Establishment, Canada
Seabed acoustic imaging in the surf zone,  Steven G. Schock and Herbert Herrmann,  pp. 149-155
Geoacoustic seafloor exploration with a towed array in a shallow water area of the Strait of Sicily,  A. Caiti, S. M. Jesus, and Å Kristensen,  pp. 156-161
Obtaining accurate "stealth rock" detection/recovery capability utilizing shallow water sonars on coastal/waterway survey vessels,  Edward Hallquist, Kevin Sprague, Jan Holland, Anthony Geneva, and Anthony Marino,  pp. 162-169
A Gaussian beam ray tracing algorithm applied to three dimensional underwater bathymetries,  Tony LaVigne,  pp. 170-175
Calibration and multiple sound sources in marine geotechnical pollution surveys in rivers,  David D. Caulfield, John Filkins, and Richard McGee,  pp. 176-187
Modeling & simulation
Chair(s): E. Gough, APL, Univ. of Washington; J. Kohsmann, U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office
Modelling and simulation of WADGPS systems,  Yi Bian,  pp. 188-195
Biasing algorithm for smoothing of sea-surface temperature data prior to minimum curvature bicubic spline gridding,  James J. Kohsmann,  pp. 196-202
A stochastic underwater acoustic channel model,  R. Galvin and R. F. W. Coates,  pp. 203-210
An entropic framework for sensor modelling,  Hanumant Singh and W. Kenneth Stewart,  pp. 211-215
Dynamic performance of towing system - Simulation and model experiment,  Yan Sisong and Huang Genyu,  pp. 216-230
Coastal circulation prediction
Chair(s): C. N. K. Mooers, Univ. of Miami; F. Aikman III, NOAA/NOS
The Coastal Ocean Forecast System for the U.S. East Coast,  Frank Aikman III,  pp. 231-235
Toward a nowcast/forecast system for water levels in the Chesapeake Bay,  Kathryn Thompson Bosley,  pp. 236-240
Second-generation Straits of Florida nowcast/forecast system (SFNFS),  Christopher N. K. Mooers and Jia Wang,  pp. 241-242
Development of the Prince William Sound nowcast-forecast system,  Christopher N. K. Mooers and Jia Wang,  pp. 243-244
Sea surface temperature evaluation of the Coastal Ocean Forecast System,  John R. Schultz and Frank Aikman III,  pp. 245-250
ROV's at work
Chair(s): D. Michel, ROV Technologies; R. Tustin, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Inst
Deep ocean ROV operated coring device,  Dan G. White, R. C. Tietze, Dan Jolly, and Don Hammond,  pp. 251-252
Coast guard ROV experience,  Kurt A. Hansen and Bryan Bender,  pp. 253-256
Submarine racing
Chair(s): B. Mooney, RAdm(Ret.); J. Rovner, C
SubMaroon: A student experience in submarine design and racing,  Michael S. Ellis, Billy D. Ambrose, and Robert E. Randall,  pp. 257-264
The 4th international human-powered submarine races,  Steven A. Bland,  pp. 265-271
Communications & telemetry II
Chair(s): S. Caldwell, Defense Research Agency, UK; C. Woody, NOAA, National Data Buoy Ctr.
Satellite-based data telemetry and geolocation-Argos enhancements for the coastal ocean,  Jeffrey Wingenroth,  pp. 272-276
Low-earth-orbit satellite systems in ocean science,  Peter C. Griffith, Dana C. Potts, and Stephen Lee Morgan,  pp. 277-282
Performance of ADCPs
Chair(s): G. Appell, NOAA/NOS; A. Williams 3rd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
Short-time spectral estimation of acoustic doppler current meter data,  Thomas L. Lagö, Per F. B. Eriksson, and Mikael Åsman,  pp. 283-288
Design and tests of a real time sontek ADP system,  Gerald F. Appell,  pp. 289-292
The RCM 9-A unique new instrument for measuring ocean currents and other oceanographic parameters,  Jostein Hovdenes,  pp. 293-298
Ocean pollution I
Chair(s): I. Haydock, Sanitation Districts of Orange County, CA; B. Baca, Nova Southeastern Univ.
Ocean monitoring off Palos Verdes, Southern California, 1970-1995,  Janet K. Stull,  pp. 299-306
Field observations and modeling of dispersion processes around ocean outfalls,  Libe Washburn and Burton H. Jones,  pp. 307-312
Acoustic reflector of opportunity distribution as a surrogate for inferring effluent distribution in a survey of Massachusetts Bay,  S. Jack Stamates, Jules Craynock, John R. Proni, Virginia Fox-Norse, and David A. Tomey,  pp. 313-320
Ropes & tension members II
Chair(s): J. F. Flory, Tension Technology International, Inc.; N. Pan, Univ. of California
Performance of ropes subjected to trolley loads,  P. Petrina, F. Leban, C. Schelle, V. Pappas, and L. Phoenix,  pp. 321-326
An automated instrument for testing and monitoring oceanographic mooring cables and ropes,  Lavinio Gualdesi, Federico de Strobel, and Diane E. di Massa,  pp. 327-331
On the origin of heat build-up in polyester ropes,  Rigo L. M. Bosman,  pp. 332-338
DC cable sensors for locating underwater telecommunication cables,  Satoru Takagi, Junichi Kojima, and Kenichi Asakawa,  pp. 339-344
Acoustical oceanography I - Coastal
Chair(s): D. R. Palmer, NOAA-AOML; J. V. Candy, Univ. of California
An opportunity for improved observation of ocean currents in the coastal zone,  Oleg A. Godin and Dmitry Yu. Mikhin,  pp. 345-350
Influence of acoustic environment on the vertical directionality of ambient noise in coastal water,  T. C. Yang and Kwang Yoo,  pp. 351-357
Broadband acoustic source processing in a noisy shallow ocean environment,  J. V. Candy and E. J. Sullivan,  pp. 358-363
Sonar signal processing I
Chair(s): P. Baggenstoss, Raytheon Electronic Systems; R. Dwyer, US Naval Undersea Warfare Ctr.
Advances in sonar signal processing in the 90's,  Roger F. Dwyer,  pp. 364-372
Long-range acoustic detection and tracking of the humpback whale Hawaii-Alaska migration,  Ronald Abileah, Darel Martin, Stephen D. Lewis, and Bob Gisiner,  pp. 373-377
Monitoring high-seas fisheries with long-range passive acoustic sensors,  Ronald Abileah and David Lewis,  pp. 378-382
Effects of water surface on the field of a parametric source,  L. Wang, B. V. Smith, and R. Coates,  pp. 383-389
Real time observing systems I
Chair(s): O. Diachok, US Naval Research Lab; H. B. Milburn, NOAA - Pacific Marine Environmental Lab
Real-time tsunami reporting from the deep ocean,  Hugh B. Milburn, Alex I. Nakamura, and Frank I. Gonzalez,  pp. 390-394
A real time talking port entrance current monitoring system,  Aaron P. Shefter and Brian L. Grose,  pp. 395-400
AUV mission control
Chair(s): E. Nelson, Texas A&M Univ.; R. Regan, C.S. Draper Lab.
Design, development, and testing at sea of the mission control system for the MARIUS autonomous underwater vehicle,  P. Oliveira, A. Pascoal, V. Silva, and C. Silvestre,  pp. 401-406
Mission specification for autonomous underwater vehicles,  Michael L. Nelson and Victoria Rohn,  pp. 407-410
Experiments in remote monitoring and control of autonomous underwater vehicles,  J. H. Kim, B. A. Moran, J. J. Leonard, J. G. Bellingham, and S. T. Tuohy,  pp. 411-416
Global positioning
Chair(s): M. Deffenbaugh, Mass. Inst. of Tech.; J. Illgen, Illgen Simulation Technologies, Inc.
A terrain referenced underwater positioning using sonar bathymetric profiles and multiscale analysis,  L. Lucido, J. Opderbecke, V. Rigaud, R. Deriche, and Z. Zhang,  pp. 417-421
POS/MV - Handling GPS outages with tightly coupled inertial/GPS integration,  Bruno M. Scherzinger and Steven Woolven,  pp. 422-428
An integrated position, attitude and heading solution for seafloor mapping with multibeam sonars,  Steven Woolven and Bruno Scherzinger,  pp. 429-435
Current measurement technology I-turbulance/bottom sensors
Chair(s): T. Wilson, Brightwaters Instrument Corp.; T. Lagos, Univ. Darlskrona, Sweden
Coherent sonar measurements of water motion and turbulence in a tidal inlet,  B. K. Haus and R. Lhermitte,  pp. 436-441
Resolving small scale turbulence with acoustic Doppler and acoustic travel time difference current meters from an underwater tower,  Trygve Gytre, Jan Even Øie Nilsen, Jan Erik Stiansen, and Svein Sundby,  pp. 442-450
Preliminary tow tank and flume tests of a prototype BASS Rake wave bottom boundary layer sensor,  Archie T. Morrison III and Albert J. Williams III,  pp. 451-456
Near bottom velocity measurements in San Francisco Bay, California,  Jeffrey W. Gartner and Ralph T. Cheng,  pp. 457-462
Ocean pollution II
Chair(s): I. Haydock, Sanitation Districts of Orange County, CA; L. Washburn, Univ. of California
Effects of dissolved organic matters on chemical transportation mechanisms of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in marine environment,  Chon-Lin Lee and Hui-Ting Huang,  pp. 463-468
The effects of crude oil and dispersed crude oil on tropical ecosystems: Long-term seagrass, mangrove, and coral studies,  Bart J. Baca, Samuel C. Snedaker, Richard E. Dodge, Anthony H. Knap, and Thomas D. Sleeter,  pp. 469-486
Distributions of persistent pollutants in surficial sediments in the coast of southwestern Taiwan,  Chon-Lin Lee and Meng-Der Fang,  pp. 487-492
Preliminary survey of electrochemiluminescence from tunicate and other biological samples,  John G. Bruno, Sneed B. Collard, David J. Kuch, and Jimmy C. Cornette,  pp. 493-498
Ropes & tension members III
Chair(s): J. F. Flory, Tension Technology International, Inc.; C. S. Sandwith, Univ. of Washington
Dynamic coefficient estimation using variational and least-squares techniques,  Frederick Driscoll and Rolf G. Lueck,  pp. 499-504
On multi-frequency vortex induced vibrations of long marine risers,  Carl M. Larsen, Kyrre Vikestad, and J. Kim Vandiver,  pp. 505-510
Resistance of steel strength wires used in small fiber-optic cables to seawater corrosion,  Collin J. Sandwith, Robert L. Ruedisueli, Allan L. James, and Gerald A. Gotthardt,  pp. 511-516
Mathematical modeling and simulation of a moored buoy system,  Rick Driscoll and Meyer Nahon,  pp. 517-523

VOLUME 2

  Program:Prospects for the 21st century

Acoustical oceanography II-Marine bioacoustics
Chair(s): R. W. Farwell, Neptune Sciences, Inc.; O. Diachok, US Naval Research Laboratory
Measurement and simulation of the effects of absorptivity due to fish on transmission loss in shallow water,  Orest Diachok and Carlo Ferla,  pp. 524-529
A multi-channel general purpose research echo sounder,  Gordon Youle and Norman Cochrane,  pp. 530-534
Sonar signal processing II
Chair(s): R. F. Dwyer, US Naval Undersea Warfare Center; P. Baggenstoss, Raytheon Electronic Systems
Optimal beamforming techniques for imperfectly calibrated arrays,  Brett L. Douglas, Robert L. Pietsch, John M. Silkaitis, and Hua Lee,  pp. 535-539
Adaptive pulselength correction (APLECORR): A strategy for waveform optimization in ultra-wideband active sonar,  Paul M. Baggenstoss,  pp. 540-544
Further results from the SAMI synthetic aperture sonar,  M. A. Lawlor, A. E. Adams, O. R. Hinton, V. S. Riyait, and B. S. Sharif,  pp. 545-550
Real time observing systems II
Chair(s): L. Lillycrop, US Army Engineering Waterways Experiment Station; C. Woody, NOAA, National Data Buoy Ctr.
Environmental data collection in near-real time along the entire coast of Texas,  Mark W. Earle,  pp. 551-554
Implementation of a fault-tolerant system in real-time marine data collection,  Barry G. Sommerfeld and Daryl B. Slocum,  pp. 555-559
A data acquisition and analysis system for coastal ocean measurements,  James P. McKinney and Gary L. Howell,  pp. 560-564
Near-real-time ocean color measurements from fixed platforms,  R. E. Timko, C. E. Woody, R. D. Ladner, and R. E. Riley,  pp. 565-570
AUV control & obstacle avoidance
Chair(s): D. Brutzman, US Naval Post-Graduate School; R. Regan, C.S. Draper Laboratory
Collision avoidance and bottom following of a torpedo-like AUV,  R. Zapata and P. Lépinay,  pp. 571-575
Sliding mode control of an AUV in the diving and steering planes,  Luis Rodrigues, Paulo Tavares, and Miguel Prado,  pp. 576-583
Mapping & navigation
Chair(s): Y. Bian, Illgen Simulation Technologies; J. Illgen, Illgen Simulation Technologies
An interactive system for precise buoy deployment and position assurance,  Maurice J. Moroney Jr., Kam F. Chin, and Stephen C. Hung,  pp. 584-589
The relationship between spherical and hyperbolic positioning,  Max Deffenbaugh, James G. Bellingham, and Henrik Schmidt,  pp. 590-595
Acoustic positioning in a fading multipath environment,  Max Deffenbaugh, Henrik Schmidt, and James G. Bellingham,  pp. 596-600
The need for Time Varying Objects in the electronic charts (ECDIS),  Bohdan Pillich,  pp. 601-606
Current measurement technology II-New developments
Chair(s): A. Williams 3rd, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.; T. Wilson, Brightwater Instrument Corp.
Development of a modular acoustic velocity sensor,  F. T. Thwaites and A. J. Williams III,  pp. 607-612
New gridded currents for the International Ice Patrol operations area,  Donald L. Murphy, Bruce Viekman, and Carol Channel,  pp. 613-618
Ocean pollution III
Chair(s): I. Haydock, Sanitation Districts of Orange County, CA; C. L. Lee, National Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Taiwan
Quantifying and testing for effects of outfalls on biological communities,  Robert W. Smith and Brock B. Bernstein,  pp. 619-623
Maintaining ocean outfall system integrity,  Gail P. Lynch,  pp. 624-628
Buoy & mooring technology
Chair(s): C. Cumbee, US Naval Oceanographic Office; D. Milburn, US Naval Oceanographic Office
Development of dynamic positioning buoy for vertical sensing-A report on prototype design,  Ken Ishii, Tsuyoshi Okumura, Yoshimi Takao, Hiroshi Aso, Syuichi Hirota, Tadahiro Arimura, and Shigenori Komori,  pp. 629-634
Elastic tether technology for shallow water moorings in harsh environments: Results from Georges Bank,  James D. Irish and Sean Kery,  pp. 635-639
Trawl resistant bottom mounted instrumentation: Developments and results to date,  Sean Kery and James D. Irish,  pp. 640-645
Shallow-water messenger-line recovery system,  Albert J. Williams III and Archie T. Morrison III,  pp. 646-649
Matched field processing/tomography
Chair(s): W. Carey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ocean Engineering Dept.; E. Sullivan, US Naval Undersea Warfare Center
The value of multi-dimensional arrays and matched-field processing (MFP) in highly anisotropic noise environments,  Yung P. Lee and Herb Freese,  pp. 650-655
Neural inversion of GASTOM'90 tomographic data,  Yann Stephan,  pp. 656-659
SARA: A new autonomous receiver for ocean acoustic tomography,  T. Terre, C. Gac, and G. Ayela,  pp. 660-664
Information processing & geographic information systems
Chair(s): E. Gough, APL, Univ. of Washington; W. Lingsch, US Naval Oceanographic Office
Development of a user friendly marine geographic information system with spatial data analysis and error estimation of three dimensional data model in the Hawaiian Exclusive Economic Zone,  Atanu Basu,  pp. 665-673
A study on the dimensional aspect of the marine geographic information systems,  Shiahn-wern Shyue and Pei-yuan Tsai,  pp. 674-679
Information processing in marine archaeology,  Fredrik Søreide, Steinar Høseggen, Marek E. Jasinski, Svein Kristiansen, and Bjørn Sortland,  pp. 680-687
Real time observing systems III
Chair(s): C. E. Woody, NOAA, National Data Buoy Center; H. B. Milburn, NOAA/Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Development of a field ammonia monitor using a gas sensing electrode: Comparison with colorimetric methods and an ammonium ion selective electrode,  Russell J. Seguin and Terry E. Whitledge,  pp. 688-692
In-situ long-term deployment of water quality sensors adversely affected by biological fouling,  Linda S. Lillycrop and Gary L. Howell,  pp. 693-697
ATLAS buoy--Reengineered for the next decade,  Hugh B. Milburn, Patrick D. McLain, and Christian Meinig,  pp. 698-702
AUV control & design
Chair(s): R. Regan, CS Draper Laboratory; Anthony Healey, US Naval Post-Graduate School
Test and evaluation experience with an untethered supervisory controlled undersea robot,  James M. Walton,  pp. 703-710
Development of reliable sub systems for Autosub,  P. Stevenson,  pp. 711-716
Government oceans program
Chair(s): L. Bernard, US Naval Oceanographic Office; Capt. D. Rudolph, US Naval Oceanographic Office
MAST-III: A European Union R&D programme in the field of marine science and technology,  Marco Weydert,  pp. 717-721
Oceanographic instrumentation I-Sediment measurement
Chair(s): E. M. Valintine; D. Durham, US Naval Met. and Oceanographic Command
Test results of the Doppler penetrometer seafloor sediment profiling system,  Brett L. Douglas and Michael P. Wapner,  pp. 722-727
RALPH-A dynamic instrument for sediment dynamics,  Dave Heffler,  pp. 728-732
The use of high frequency acoustic backscatter and Doppler measurements to determine sediment concentration and 2D velocity in water,  Andrew Tweedy, Eric Valentine, Oliver Hinton, and Alan Adams,  pp. 733-738
Oil spill information management systems
Chair(s): C. Douligeris, Univ. of Miami; P. Tebeau, Univ. of Miami
Experience with a South Florida information management system for oil spills,  Christos Douligeris, John Collins, Rolando Blanco, and Peixing Sun,  pp. 739-744
Meeting user needs in designing oil spill information management systems,  Peter Tebeau, Christos Douligeris, and John Collins,  pp. 745-750
Offshore oil-spill occurrence rates,  Robert P. LaBelle and Cheryl M. Anderson,  pp. 751-753
Offshore structures I
Chair(s): G. W. Batchelder, Nautilus Dredging and Docks; R. Geminder, CINC
Artificial reefs: From waste to resources,  Lee E. Harris, Benjamin J. Mostkoff, and Gerald Zadikoff,  pp. 754-759
Drilling oil - Islands in the Beaufort Sea,  George W. Batchelder,  pp. 760-762
Transducers & arrays
Chair(s): M. D. McCollum, Harris Corporation; G. Dickson Hugus, NUWC-Orlando
Dual frequency mode transducer,  Jun Lan and Stephen G. Boucher,  pp. 763-766
Application of thin, acoustic lenses in a 32-beam, dual-frequency, diver-held sonar,  Edward O. Belcher,  pp. 767-772
Installation and calibration of a parametric array for shallow water backscatter measurements,  O. Bergem and N. G. Pace,  pp. 773-777
Development of a 3-D forward look electronically scanned sonar system,  J. M. Cuschieri, L. LeBlanc, M. Singer, and P. P. Beaujean,  pp. 778-783
Physical oceanography
Chair(s): V. Sprague, US Naval Oceanographic Office; R. Barrett, US Naval Oceanographic Office
The interagency experiment of Florida Bay,  Nancy B. Thompson, Peter B. Ortner, Thomas V. Armentano, and John Hunt,  pp. 784-789
Near-real-time coastal oceanographic data products,  William D. Corson and Margaret A. Sabol,  pp. 790-793
Autonomous minehunting & mapping
Chair(s): W. Wyman, CS Draper Laboratory; R. Bailey, Applied Research Lab, U. of Texas
DARPA's autonomous minehunting and mapping technologies (AMMT) program: An overview,  Joseph G. Paglia and William F. Wyman,  pp. 794-799
Autonomous minehunting and mapping at-sea testing,  Claude P. Brancart and J. Patrick Madden,  pp. 800-806
Autonomous minehunting and mapping technologies program autonomous maneuvering capabilities,  Robert A. Regan,  pp. 807-812
Acoustic communications I
Chair(s): J. Catapovic, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.; O. Hinton, Univ. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Coherent path measurement for characterization of the underwater acoustic channel,  L. R. LeBlanc, J. M. Cuschieri, M. Singer, and P. P. Beaujean,  pp. 813-825
Measured channel sounding characteristics and their relationship with the performance of a parametric communication system,  R. Galvin, R. F. W. Coates, L. S. Wang, and R. Stoner,  pp. 826-831
Dynamic viterbi decoding in underwater acoustic channels under burst noise conditions,  Daniel Kilfoyle and Josko Catipovic,  pp. 832-838
Parametric transmission of wide-band signals,  Gérard Loubet, François Vial, Abder Essebbar, Laurent Kopp, and Daniel Cano,  pp. 839-844
Performance of coherent PSK receivers using adaptive combining, beamforming and equalisation in 50km underwater acoustic channels,  D. Thompson, J. Neasham, B. S. Sharif, O. R. Hinton, A. E. Adams, A. D. Tweedy, and M. A. Lawlor,  pp. 845-850
Current measurement technology III-Surface drifters
Chair(s): R. Mahr, MetOcean; T. Wilson, Brightwaters Instrument Corp.
A Lagrangian drifter with inexpensive wide area differential GPS positioning,  Thomas C. Wilson Jr., John A. Barth, Stephen D. Pierce, P. Michael Kosro, and B. Walton Waldorf,  pp. 851-856
Performance of GPS/Argos self-locating datum marker buoys (SLDMBs),  Arthur Allen,  pp. 857-861
Surface drifters in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico,  Robert P. LaBelle, Walter R. Johnson, and Pearn P. Niiler,  pp. 862-863
Intercomparison of drogued and undrogued drift buoys,  Stephen E. Pazan,  pp. 864-872
Synthetic aperture radar ocean observations
Chair(s): R. Garello, Telecom Bretagne, France
Radar signatures of oceanic and atmospheric internal waves: A comparison,  Werner Alpers,  pp. 873-880
Simulation of the nonlinear relation between RAR and SAR images of the ocean surface,  J. M. Le Caillec and R. Garello,  pp. 881-886
The two-scale model for random rough surface scattering,  A. Khenchaf, F. Daout, and J. Saillard,  pp. 887-891
Offshore structures II
Experimental study of ice-cylindrical pile interaction,  Alexander T. Bekker and Vladimir I. Seliverstov,  pp. 892-893
Reliability evaluation of ice-resistant offshore structures,  Alexander T. Bekker and Olga A. Komarova,  pp. 894-896
Coastal zone management
Rethinking seafood tissue monitoring for regional risk assessment,  B. B. Bernstein, J. Allen, J. Dorsey, M. Gold, M. Lyons, G. A. Pollock, D. Smith, J. Stull, and G. Wang,  pp. 897-903
An approach to a coastal water quality index for Taiwan,  Shiahn-wern Shyue, Chon-lin Lee, and Hsi-Chieh Chen,  pp. 904-907
Signal detection
Chair(s): J. Candy, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., Univ. of California; E. Sullivan, US Naval Undersea Warfare Center
A nonparametric page test applied to active sonar detection,  Douglas A. Abraham,  pp. 908-913
A transient detector based on Malvar wavelets,  P. Ravier and P. O. Amblard,  pp. 914-918
Underwater detection of transient magnetic signals: An application of wavelet packets,  André Quinquis, Ingo Kalkoff, and Stéphane Rossignol,  pp. 919-924
Feature-based multisensor fusion and performance quantification using sufficient statistics,  David H. Kil and Frances B. Shin,  pp. 925-928
Image & data compression techniques
Chair(s): F. Caimi, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Inst.; J. Catipovic, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.
Data compression techniques for underwater imagery,  Mark S. Schmalz, Gerhard X. Ritter, and Frank M. Caimi,  pp. 929-936
Compression of obstacle avoidance sonar data for low bit rate image transfer,  Brett L. Douglas and Robert L. Pietsch,  pp. 937-942
The impact of lossy image compression on automatic target recognition performance,  Frances B. Shin, David H. Kil, and Gerald J. Dobeck,  pp. 943-948
Coastal exploring using AUVs-I
Chair(s): T. Curtin, US Office of Naval Research; R. Blidberg, Northeastern Univ.
AUV survey design applied to oceanic deep convection,  J. Scott Willcox, Yanwu Zhang, James G. Bellingham, and John Marshall,  pp. 949-954
MAUVE: Miniaturized and reconfigurable instrumentation for multipurpose survey with a Mini Autonomous Underwater VEhicle,  Alain Carof, J. P. Cléro, R. Duranton, I. Lourtie, I. Ribeiro, A. Siccardi, E. Olsen, G. Pichot, J. Rendas, MC. Thomas, L. Pronzato, and D. Sauzade,  pp. 955-960
Coastal turbulence and optics characterization from an autonomous underwater vehicle,  Edward R. Levine, Rolf G. Lueck, Percy L. Donaghay, Donald R. Connors, Ted Gagliardi, and Robert C. Hanson,  pp. 961-968
Bottom topographic mapping-I
Chair(s): C. de Moustier, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography; R. Carlson, Seabeam Instruments, Inc.
The effect of sound velocity on wide swath multibeam system data,  Hélène Tonchia and Hervé Bisquay,  pp. 969-974
Advances in realtime multibeam survey visualization and quality control,  Sharon E. Spitzak, David W. Caress, and Stephen P. Miller,  pp. 975-979
A graphical user interface for multibeam map production and survey management,  Paul A. Cohen, Sharon E. Spitzak, and Stephen P. Miller,  pp. 980-983
Acoustic communications II
Chair(s): O. Hinton, Univ. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK; R. F. W. Coates, Univ. Birmingham, United Kingdom
An adaptive block decision feedback receiver for improved performance in channels with severe intersymbol interference,  David E. Lambert, N. A. Pendergrass, and Susan M. Jarvis,  pp. 984-987
Combined equalisation and beamforming to achieve 20 kbits/s acoustic telemetry for ROVs,  J. A. Neasham, D. Thompson, A. D. Tweedy, M. A. Lawlor, O. R. Hinton, A. E. Adams, and B. S. Sharif,  pp. 988-993
Adaptive multichannel equalizer for underwater communications,  Vittorio Capellano, Gérard Loubet, and Geneviève Jourdain,  pp. 994-999
Oceanographic instrumentation II-Novel instruments
Chair(s): R. Tusting, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Inst.; D. Ross, Chelsea Instruments, Inc.
Seasoar vehicle control and data acquisition,  Frank Bahr, Paul D. Fucile, and Jerome P. Dean,  pp. 1000-1007
Field experiments on a towed vehicle "Flying Fish" for physical and chemical measurement in the upper mixed layer of the ocean,  Wataru Koterayama, Satoru Yamaguchi, Masahiko Nakamura, and Taketo Akamatsu,  pp. 1008-1013
Subbottom swath mapping with HAWAII MR1,  Mark Rognstad,  pp. 1014-1018
Development of special-purpose benthic, geo-chemical and biological samplers at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution,  R. F. Tusting, R. C. Tietze, K. R. Reisenbichler, D. S. Lee, I. R. MacDonald, and C. R. Fisher,  pp. 1019-1025
Radar modeling, analysis & simulation
Chair(s): D. Weissman, Hofstra Univ.; H. C. Graber, Univ. of Miami
An evaluation of the OSCR HF radar system for ocean wave measurement,  L. R. Wyatt, L. J. Ledgard, S. Webster, and S. P. Kingsley,  pp. 1026-1031
Observations of a coastal buoyant jet with HF Doppler radar,  Brian K. Haus, Hans C. Graber, and Lynn K. Shay,  pp. 1032-1037
Bathymetric effects on the Caribbean western boundary current as seen with over-the-horizon radar,  J. A. Harlan and T. M. Georges,  pp. 1038-1040
Regional initiatives in ocean industry development
Chair(s): C. MacDonald, Hawaii Department of Economic Development & Tourism; J. Woodman, Dept. Industry, Trade and Technology, CANADA
The Massachusetts Ocean Technology Network: A strategy for new business development,  Maggie Linskey Merrill, Lawrence Gray, and Jack McCann,  pp. 1041-1045
A synopsis of Hawaii's strategy for ocean industry development,  Craig D. MacDonald, Elizabeth Corbin, Howard E. Deese, and Athline M. Clark,  pp. 1046-1051

VOLUME 3

  Program:Prospects for the 21st century

Bottom classification
Chair(s): R. F. Dwyer, Naval Undersea Weapons Center; D. Durham, US Naval Met. & Oceanography Command
Normal incidence seafloor classification using a parametric array,  O. Bergem, E. Pouliquen, A. Lyons, and N. G. Pace,  pp. 1052-1057
Development of a physically-based ocean bottom classification analysis system using multibeam sonar backscatter,  Stanley Zietz, John H. Satriano, and Anthony Geneva,  pp. 1058-1063
Lassoo!: An interactive graphical tool for seafloor classification,  Semme J. Dijkstra and Larry A. Mayer,  pp. 1064-1070
Error estimation of pulse pair correlation differential phase estimator of sonar array,  Weiqing Zhu, Wen Xu, and Jianyun Yu,  pp. 1071-1075
Vision systems for maritime navigation
Chair(s): S. Negahdaripour, Univ. of Miami; D. Raviv, Florida Atlantic Univ.
A real-time vision-based stationkeeping system for underwater robotics applications,  L. Jin, X. Xu, S. Negahdaripour, C. Tsukamoto, and J. Yuh,  pp. 1076-1081
Dynamic vision for ROV stabilization,  S. Wasielewski and M. J. Aldon,  pp. 1082-1087
Motion estimation for ROV stabilization with a light-stripe sensor,  Jérôme Vaganay and Bruno Jouvencel,  pp. 1088-1093
Coastal exploration using AUVs - II
Chair(s): P. Matten, APL, Johns Hopkins Univ.; T. Curtin, US Office of Naval Research
Real-time frontal mapping with AUVs in a coastal environment,  Henrik Schmidt, James G. Bellingham, Mark Johnson, David Herold, David M. Farmer, and Richard Pawlowicz,  pp. 1094-1098
Autonomous mapping with an AUV: An approach for ground truthing of remote sensing data,  Andrew A. Bennett and John J. Leonard,  pp. 1099-1104
THETIS: An underwater remotely operated vehicle,  J. N. Lygouras, K. N. Tarchanidis, and Ph. Tsalides,  pp. 1105-1107
Bottom topographic mapping - II
Chair(s): R. Carlson, Seabeam Instruments, Inc.; C. de Moustier, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography
Collection and processing of multibeam and side-scan data to hydrographic standards,  Jeffrey H. Parker, Joyce E. Miller, and Jill R. Schoenherr,  pp. 1108-1113
Providing data adhering to IHO standards for hydrographic surveys (SP44 and SP52) for navigational chart products with ELAC's Bottom Chart Compact System,  Morten Sølvsten,  pp. 1114-1118
Results from hydrographic multibeam and side-scan surveys of Long Island Sound,  Walter Simmons and Joyce Miller,  pp. 1119-1124
Acoustic communications III
Chair(s): J. Catapovic, Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst.; O. Hinton, Univ. of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Multicarrier coherent communications for the underwater acoustic channel,  Elie Bejjani and Jean-Claude Belfiore,  pp. 1125-1130
Oceanographic Instrumentation III--Optical Instruments
Chair(s): E. M. Valintine; K. Davis, US Naval Oceanographic Office
Results of the dynamical tests of a special designed optical microstructure density probe based on the measurement of the refractive index,  H.-C. Waldmann and S. Thiele,  pp. 1131-1134
Laser instruments for particle size and settling velocity measurements in the coastal zone,  Y. C. Agrawal, H. C. Pottsmith, J. Lynch, and J. Irish,  pp. 1135-1142
Fiber optic tomography measuring network for investigation of vector deformation fields of earth surface,  Yuri Kulchin, Oleg Vitrik, Oleg Kirichenko, Yuri Petrov, Oleg Kamenev, Oleg Maksaev, and Roman Romashko,  pp. 1143-1147
Extraction of wave information from NOAA's water level measurement network,  H. H. Shih and M. A. Basileo,  pp. 1148-1156
HF radar observation: Currents and winds
Chair(s): H. Graber, Univ. of Miami; W. L. Jones, Florida Inst. of Technology
Evaluation of ERS-1 scatterometer winds with ocean buoy observations,  Hans C. Graber, Naoto Ebuchi, and Ram Vakkayil,  pp. 1157-1165
A comparison of models for the AMI on ERS-1 and SASS-II for NSCAT on ADEOS: Implications for an improved NSCAT model,  Winfield B. Sylvester, Hans C. Graber, and Willard J. Pierson,  pp. 1166-1170
Evaluation of rain effects on NSCAT wind retrievals,  W. Linwood Jones and Josko Zec,  pp. 1171-1176
An improved algorithm for NSCAT measurements of hurricanes,  W. Linwood Jones, Larry Rice, Nikola P. Rudic, and Eric W. Uhlhorn,  pp. 1177-1182
Ocean economic development
Chair(s): J. Woodman, Dept. of Industry, Trade and Technology, Canada; C. MacDonald, Hawaii Department of Economic Development & Tourism
Competitive power and fresh water for arid coastal regions,  Henry A. Miranda Jr.,  pp. 1183-1187
Microcontroller based instrumentation for control and PC based data acquisition system for a prototype wave energy plant,  V. Jagadeesh Kumar, B. N. Biju, P. M. Koola, and M. Ravindran,  pp. 1188-1192
Signal parameters & classification
Chair(s): D. Abraham, SACLANT Undersea Research Center; P. Baggenstoss, Raytheon Electronic Systems
Automated real-time active sonar decision making by exploiting massive parallelism,  Roger F. Dwyer,  pp. 1193-1196
Improved echo classification in shallow water,  Paul M. Baggenstoss,  pp. 1197-1203
Robust mine detection and classification with target physics-derived features and classifiers,  Frances B. Shin and David H. Kil,  pp. 1204-1207
Vertical synthetic aperture for ocean exploration,  D. Mauuary and B. Faure,  pp. 1208-1212
Non-acoustic image processing
Chair(s): N. da Vitoria Lobo, Univ. of Central Florida; F. Caimi, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Inst.
Automatic analysis of visual data in submarine pipeline inspection,  G. Conte, S. Zanoli, A. M. Perdon, G. Tascini, and P. Zingaretti,  pp. 1213-1219
Tracking and mapping underwater bioluminescent displays using snakes,  Donna M. Kocak, Niels da Vitoria Lobo, and Edith A. Widder,  pp. 1220-1226
Plankton image classification using novel parallel-training learning vector quantization network,  Xiaoou Tang and W. Kenneth Stewart,  pp. 1227-1236
Special coastal R&D platforms I
Chair(s): B. Mooney, RAdm (ret.); A. Clark, Harbor Branch, Oceanographic Inst.
A seabed platform for long-term monitoring in the littoral environment,  Joseph DeAlteris, Harold Vincent, Richard Kaiser, and Jessica DeAlteris,  pp. 1237-1241
"LASSI" - Lagoon-Air-Sea-Sediment-Interaction system,  Daryl B. Slocum, Nicholas C. Kraus, and Cheryl A. Brown,  pp. 1242-1246
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Marine Observatory - Towards an integrated observing facility for the coastal ocean and atmosphere,  David Rogers, Meredith Sessions, and Clive Dorman,  pp. 1247-1250
Bottom topographic mapping--III
Chair(s): C. de Moustier, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography; R. Carlson, Seabeam Instruments, Inc.
A comparison of acoustic imagery data from a 12-kHz sidescan sonar and a 12-kHz hull-mounted bathymetric and imaging system,  Stephen Lingsch, Joan Gardner, Michael Czarnecki, and Alexander N. Shor,  pp. 1251-1257
Seabed topographic classification and mapping,  Marian O. Clough,  pp. 1258-1264
Technology exchange
Chair(s): K. Heffner, US Naval Met. & Oceanography Command; E. N. Buckley, NOAA
Value-added technology transfer: A pioneering NOAA system linking marine technologies with entrepreneurs,  Earle N. Buckley,  pp. 1265-1268
Applications of technology at the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary,  John D. Broadwater,  pp. 1269-1273
Oceanographic instrumentation IV
Chair(s): R. Van Olst., US Naval Oceanographic Office; C. Ingram
High quality sea surface temperature for volunteer observing ships,  Geoffrey P. Allsup and David S. Hosom,  pp. 1274-1278
Satellite scatterometer measurement of sea surface winds
Chair(s): D. Weissman, Hofstra Univ.; M. Coulter, US Navy Fleet Numerical Met. & Oceanography Center
Hyperspectral imaging sensors and assessment of oceanic littoral zone phytoplankton dynamics,  Laurie L. Richardson and Vincent G. Ambrosia,  pp. 1279-1284
Spatial variations of sea surface microwave backscatter in response to wind, wind stress and surface current variations,  David E. Weissman, William J. Plant, William C. Keller, and Vahid Hesany,  pp. 1285-1289
Measurements of ocean surface stress using airborne and spaceborne microwave scatterometers,  David E. Weissman,  pp. 1290-1296
Marine law & policy
Chair(s): R. Young, US Naval Met. & Oceanography Command; J. R. Cameron, States/BC Oil Spill Task Force
Coastal states' collaboration for ocean resource protection: Phase one,  Jean R. Cameron,  pp. 1297-1301
On the utility of mean higher high water and mean lower low water datums for Texas inland coastal waters,  F. Michael Speed, F. Michael Speed Jr., H. Joseph Newton, William B. Smith, and Nicholas C. Kraus,  pp. 1302-1306
Localization & tracking
Chair(s): L. Le Blanc, Florida Atlantic University; R. Wagstaff, US Naval Research Laboratory
Orthogonal velocity-hydrophone ESPRIT for sonar source localization,  Kainam T. Wong and Michael D. Zoltowski,  pp. 1307-1312
Performance of detect-on-track in a high shipping environment,  Yung P. Lee and Haw-Jye Shyu,  pp. 1313-1318
Acoustic image processing
Chair(s): J. Carroll, US Navy Met. & Oceanographic Command; B. Johnson, Naval Explosive Ordinance Disposal Tech Div.
Optimization of a sonar image processing chain: A fuzzy rules based expert system approach,  Stéphane Guillaudeux, Sylvie Daniel, and Éric Maillard,  pp. 1319-1323
Sonar image registration through symbolic matching: A fuzzy local transform approach using genetic algorithms,  Didier Guériot, Eric Maillard, and Jean-Pierre Kernin,  pp. 1324-1329
Real time sensor fusion for autonomous underwater imaging in 3D,  Petter Lågstad and Per Gunnar Auran,  pp. 1330-1335
"The implementation of a massively parallel RISC-based digital transmitter for multi-dimensional acoustic imaging",  John P. Fumo, Joe Cuschieri, Ender Kuntsal, and Mike Wapner,  pp. 1336-1342
Special coastal R&D platforms II
Chair(s): A. Clark, Harbor Branch, Oceanographic Inst.; B. Mooney, RAdm (ret.)
National Undersea Research Program offshore emergency exercises,  A. N. Kalvaitis,  pp. 1343-1347
South Florida Test Facility underwater tracking system development,  Eric D. Todd,  pp. 1348-1353
WWW oceanography
Chair(s): N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL; C. Douligeris, Univ. of Miami
World Wide Web access to real-time and historical data from the TAO array of moored buoys in the tropical Pacific Ocean: Updates for 1996,  N. N. Soreide, D. C. McClurg, W. H. Zhu, M. J. McPhaden, D. W. Denbo, and M. W. Renton,  pp. 1354-1359
Marine mineral resources
Chair(s): J. C. Wilshire, Univ. of Hawaii; T. Lay, Technical Univ. Nova Scotia, Canada
Mineralogy and geochemistry of ferromanganese crusts from Johnston Island EEZ,  John Wiltshire and De Yao,  pp. 1360-1365
The use of marine tailings in the formulation of specialty glasses, ceramic-glasses and glazes,  G. F. Terry Lay, John Wiltshire, M. C. Rockwell, and Isami Enomoto,  pp. 1366-1371
Parvalbumins as a biomarker for fish species identification: Applications to Snook (Centropomus undecimalis) preservation,  R. W. Tilghman, C. I. Ross, F. Mari, and J. X. Hartmann,  pp. 1372-1375
Magnetic field sea water treatment in ocean engineering systems,  Alexander N. Gulkov and Alexander N. Minaev,  pp. 1376-1377
Polar & severe environments instrumentation
Chair(s): P. Lau, Consultant; J. C. Galloway, Dept. of Fisheries & Oceans, Canada
Severe environments instrumentation in the 1990's - A decade of change,  Paula A. Lau,  pp. 1378-1380
Sea ice characterization with a correlation sonar,  James L. Galloway,  pp. 1381-1387
A robust acoustic Doppler velocimeter for use in severe environments,  Ron George and Michael Curry,  pp. 1388-1390
Optical observations of marine ecology & constituents
Chair(s): H. N. Shirer, Pennsylvania State Univ.; M. L. Heron, James Cook Univ., Australia
Ocean SAR raw data simulation: Generation and testing,  Giorgio Franceschetti, Maurizio Migliaccio, and Daniele Riccio,  pp. 1391-1395
Brightness variability on synthetic aperture radar imagery of the sea surface caused by kilometer-scale atmospheric convective eddies,  Hampton N. Shirer, Bruce A. Lambert Jr., Louis V. Zuccarello, Robert Wells, and Todd D. Sikora,  pp. 1396-1399
Coherence scales for microwave Bragg scatter,  M. L. Heron and A. Prytz,  pp. 1400-1405
Marine education
Chair(s): S. H. Walker, Univ. of Southern, MS; S. B. Cook, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Inst.
Global environmental education: Publications to facilitate the transfer of global science technology and information to middle school teachers,  Sharon H. Walker, Howard D. Walters, and Linda C. Skupien,  pp. 1406-1408
Marine Science at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington,  Alessandro Bocconcelli,  pp. 1409-1411
From submersibles to seagrasses: Education programs at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution,  Susan B. Cook and Debra K. Krumm,  pp. 1412-1413
How to develop naval engineering education in the Russian far east,  Gennady P. Turmov, Alexander N. Minaev, Viacheslav A. Okishev, and Yuri V. Yakubovsky,  pp. 1414-1415
Poster session I
Chair(s): Dr. Stanley Chamberlain, Raytheon Electronic Systems; Prof. Chris Mooers, Univ. of Miami
Bathymetry and side scan imagery of SeaBeam 2000 multi-beam echo sounder on the Eastern Ulleung Basin, East Sea of Korea (Japan Sea),  Yong-Kuk Lee, Bong-Chool Suk, Hak-Il Kim, and Jae-Kyung Oh,  pp. 1416-1420
HOS-based modelling of low-frequency underwater acoustic noise for signal detection in shallow waters,  A. Tesei, C. S. Regazzoni, and G. Tacconi,  pp. 1421-1426
ESPRIT-based extended-aperture source localization using velocity-hydrophones,  Kainam T. Wong and Michael D. Zoltowski,  pp. 1427-1432
Investigations of energetic characteristics of the acoustic arrays in a shallow sea,  Vladimir I. Korochentsev, Lubov G. Statsenko, and Vladimir N. Statsenko,  pp. 1433-1434
Wideband SONAR detection in reverberation using autoregressive models,  V. Carmillet and G. Jourdain,  pp. 1435-1440
Deconvolution of marine seismic signal using higher order statistics and Bernoulli-Gaussian model,  M. Boujida, J.-M. Boucher, B. Marsset, G. Lericolais, and J. Meunier,  pp. 1441-1446
Fouling communities associated to artificial substrates (pine-wood) under environmental stress conditions in Lake de Maracaibo, Venezuela,  José E. Rojas, Héctor Severeyn, José Delgado, and Antonio Godoy,  pp. 1447-1450
M/V FIRAT removal, grounding assessment, hard coral reattachment, and monitoring--A case study,  Bruce Graham and Mark Schroeder,  pp. 1451-1455
Poster session II
Chair(s): Prof. Chris Mooers, Univ. of Miami; Dr. Stanley Chamberlain, Raytheon Electronic Systems
SeaSoar towed vehicles in rapid coastal surveys,  J. Marcus Willis,  pp. 1463-1466
In situ geoacoustic systems and measurements in a variety of carbonate and siliciclastic environments,  Dawn L. Lavoie and Michael D. Richardson,  pp. 1467-1473
A high resolution marine particle analysis system,  Tracey T. Sutton, Thomas L. Hopkins, and Lawrence C. Langebrake,  pp. 1474-1479
A high frequency chirp sonar to be deployed on the High Resolution Sampler (HRS II) and capable of sizing small zooplankton,  Andrew Remsen, Thomas L. Hopkins, Tracey T. Sutton, Thomas Wilcox, and Lester LeBlanc,  pp. 1480-1484
The first large-scale map of ocean surface currents made with dual over-the-horizon radars,  T. M. Georges and J. A. Harlan,  pp. 1485-1487
Surface wind field extraction from HF ground-wave remote sensing radar,  Zhixin Zhou, Yong Tan Liu, Jinrong Wang, and Ling Qin,  pp. 1488-1491
Sediment distribution in El Tablazo Bay, Maracaibo system, Venezuela,  Félix E. Morales and Gonzalo Godoy,  pp. 1492-1496
Experimental measurement of the coupled motions of a ship and a deep sea remotely operated vehicle system,  Frederick Driscoll, Meyer Nahon, and Rolf Lueck,  pp. 1497-1499
Modern spectral analysis in HF radar remote sensing,  A. Vizinho and L. R. Wyatt,  pp. 1500-1503
Improvement of the diver speech intelligibility in underwater communications using LPC,  Andrey V. Vassilev,  pp. 1504-1509
A stochastic approach to optimizing the aperture and the number of elements of an aperiodic array,  Andrea Trucco and Francesco Repetto,  pp. 1510-1515
Numerical simulation of the radar signal modulation due to the long ocean waves: preparation of the VAGSAT mission,  Elbatoul Soussi and Danièle Hauser,  pp. 1516-1520
Fourier-based imaging applied to synthetic aperture sonar,  T. Rastello, D. Vray, P. Delachartre, and R. Prost,  pp. 1521-1526
Automatic mapping of sediment layers,  Claire-Sophie Maroni, André Quinquis, and Thierry Garlan,  pp. 1527-1532
Dynamic testing of state of the art vertical reference units,  Michael J. Ingram, Robert C. Tyce, and Ronald G. Allen,  pp. 1533-1538
Spectral analysis of the swell using the reassigned Wigner-Ville representation,  Stéphane Grassin and René Garello,  pp. 1539-1544
Deep seafloor characterization with multibeam echosounders using image segmentation and angular acoustic variations,  S. Dugelay,  pp. 1545-1550
A precise localization system dedicated to hydrobiological studies of lakes. Fish localization, topography, tomography and lakes bed types mapping,  Claude Deyres-Pescay, Jean Louis Boizard, Pascal Leman, and Bernard Aragon,  pp. 1551-1556
Ocean Status Information Management System: Data on the WWW,  Rolando Blanco and Jay Jacobs,  pp. 1557-1560
Survivable ATM networks in the Navy: Application to a Naval communication backbone and to a sonar,  François-Xavier Arquès,  pp. 1561-1564