Proceedings of MTS/IEEE Oceans'97 Conference

World Trade and Convention Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaOctober 6-9, 1997

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VOLUME 1

Signal and information processing I
Chair(s): George Steeves
Multispectral images error correction,  Enrico Piazza,  pp. 3-7
Near realtime use of RADARSAT SAR imagery combined with AVHRR images for ship navigation in Antarctica,  P. Danduran, R. Garello, M. C. Mouchot, D. Fleury, and I. Thépaut,  pp. 8-11
Vehicle control
Chair(s): Lisa Quesnel
Robust feedback linearization with neural network for underwater vehicle control,  Lorenzo Pollini, Mario Innocenti, and Francesco Nasuti,  pp. 12-16
Non-linear tanker control system parameter optimisation using genetic algorithms,  Euan W. McGookin, David J. Murray-Smith, Yun Li, and Thor I. Fossen,  pp. 17-22
Sonar
Chair(s): George Frisk
Postprocessing and signal corrections for multibeam echosounder images,  Laurent Hellequin, Xavier Lurton, and Jean Marie Augustin,  pp. 23-26
Narrowband signal detection in a reverberation-limited environment,  Manuel Aineto and Stuart Lawson,  pp. 27-32
Statistical modelling of sidescan SONAR images,  Jonanthan Dunlop,  pp. 33-38
Voyages & explorations
Chair(s): Alan Ruffman
Should Nova Scotia be renamed Neos Skotia?,  George A. Fowler,  p. 39
Voyage of the FRAM,  Catherine E. Woody,  pp. 40-44
Communications & telemetry I--Satellites
Chair(s): Scott McLean
SeaNet Lite: On demand internet connectivity at sea,  Dale Chayes, Andrew Maffei, and Gregory Myers,  pp. 45-50
Manned submersibles
Chair(s): Dirk Rosen; Doug Huntington
The manned submersible as an effective sampling and imaging platform,  Dominic Liberatore, Tim Askew, Robert Tusting, and Scott Olson,  pp. 51-58
10 years anniversary of deep manned submersibles MIR-1 and MIR-2,  Anatoly M. Sagalevitch,  pp. 59-65
Remote sensing I
Chair(s): Bruce Johnson; Richard Olson
An iterative technique to determine the near surface current velocity from time series of sea surface images,  Christian M. Senet, Jörg Seemann, and Friedwart Ziemer,  pp. 66-72
FMCW-SAR development for internal wave imaging,  G. Connan, H. D. Griffiths, and P. V. Brennan,  pp. 73-78
The use of "in-situ" radiometric measurements for validating satellite derived sea surface temperatures,  Thomas Sheasby, Isabelle Parkes, Tim Nightingale, Sumio Tamba, and Ryuzo Yokoyama,  pp. 79-82
Measurement of sea surface wind speed and its navigational direction from flying apparatus,  Alexei Nekrassov,  pp. 83-86
Communications & telemetry II
Chair(s): James Snow
Development of high-speed data transmission equipment for the full-depth remotely operated vehicle "KAIKO",  Taro Aoki, Takashi Murashima, Yoshihisa Asao, Toshihiro Nakae, and Masayoshi Yamaguchi,  pp. 87-92
Communications & telemetry II
Chair(s): James Snow
A fiber optic telemetry system for multiple oceanographic platforms,  Robert G. Goldsborough III,  pp. 93-97
System integration with an optical plankton counter,  Ian MacKay, Kenneth Bowers, and James Snow,  pp. 98-104
Fiber optic control of an undulating platform,  Paul Fucile, Allan Gordon, Frank Bahr, and Jerome Dean,  pp. 105-108
Acoustic current profilers I
Chair(s): Norm Cochrane
Semi-portable mount for a direct-reading broadband ADCP on a coastal vessel,  Michael O. Mathewson and Harvey Seim,  pp. 109-114
Testing and deployment of a new acoustic Doppler current meter,  Jerry Mullison, Ron George, Craig Huhta, and Ramon Cabrera,  pp. 115-119
Performance comparison of RDI ADCPs: Broadband versus narrowband,  Thomas C. Wilson Jr., Kamazima M. M. Lwiza, and Graham L. Allen,  pp. 120-125
Moorings
Chair(s): Walter Paul
The Mooring Selection Guide (MSG) software,  Aaron Dinovitzer, Jean-Louis René, Reiner Silberhorn, and Michael Steele,  pp. 126-133
Transient tension measurements during mooring deployments,  Jim M. Hamilton,  pp. 134-139
Design of an elastic mooring for remote turbidity monitoring buoys,  Henri O. Berteaux and Bernard G. Petolas,  pp. 140-159
Seafloor archaeology & surveys
Chair(s): Brian Petrie
The discovery of shipwrecks through marine geoological mapping,  Gordon B. J. Fader and Robert O. Miller,  p. 160
Applying modern technology to save a historic warship: The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary,  John D. Broadwater, Dina B. Hill, Jeff Johnston, and Karen Kozlowski,  pp. 161-166
Tethered systems
Chair(s): James McFarlane; Chris von Alt
VICTOR 6000--A deep teleoperated system for scientific research,  Marc Nokin,  pp. 167-171
A remotely operated 6020-meter seafloor corer,  Richard Petters and Y. Asakawa,  pp. 172-176
The use of ROVS for subsea cable maintenance,  R. T. Bannon,  pp. 177-185
Submersible pop-up buoy for RF communication,  William R. Macha and Kenneth E. Rogers,  pp. 186-191
The development of SEAPUP (a light work class ROV),  Qiong Wu,  pp. 192-196
Marine & coastal structures
Chair(s): Andrew Trivett
Estimation of wind force acting on huge floating ocean structures,  Fumitoshi Kitamura, Hiroshi Sato, Kiyoshi Shimada, and Takashi Mikami,  pp. 197-202
The detection of ice pressure in the Gulf of St. Lawrence using acoustics,  A. Maillet,  pp. 203-207
Coastal natural hazards analysis of risk exposures,  John S. Yeend,  pp. 208-212
In the search of a coastal ocean wave model,  S. K. Khatri,  pp. 213-218
Oceanographic instrumentation I--Profiling
Chair(s): Mark Chin-Yee
A vertical profiling system for making oceanographic measurements in coastal waters,  Michael Purcell, Tom Austin, Roger Stokey, Chris von Alt, and Ken Prada,  pp. 219-224
A wave powered profiler for long term monitoring,  George A. Fowler, Jim M. Hamilton, Brian D. Beanlands, Donald J. Belliveau, and Arnold R. Furlong,  pp. 225-228
Moving vessel profiler (MVP) real time near vertical data profiles at 12 knots,  Arnold Furlong, Brian Beanlands, and Mark Chin-Yee,  pp. 229-234
Observations of the spatial structure of internal waves in a small mid-latitude lake,  Bernard Laval, John S. Bird, and Peter D. Helland,  pp. 235-240
Measuring ocean turbulence with a tethered free-fall glider,  Blair J. W. Greenan and Neil S. Oakey,  pp. 241-246
Communications & telemetry III
Chair(s): Shane Woodside; Lee Estes
A new MFSK acoustic modem for operation in adverse underwater channels,  Kenneth F. Scussel, Joseph A. Rice, and Steve Merriam,  pp. 247-254
Standard local area networks for high-performance measurements systems,  John Walrod,  pp. 255-258
The design and testing of a DSP, half-duplex, vertical, DPSK communication link,  J. C. Jones, A. Di Meglio, L. S. Wang, R. F. W. Coates, A. Tedeschi, and R. J. Stoner,  pp. 259-266
LONTalk as a standard protocol for underwater sensor platforms,  S. M. Smith, S. McPhail, A. Healey, and R. Russell,  p. 267
A peer-to-peer communication protocol for underwater acoustic communication,  Samuel M. Smith, Joseph C. Park, and Alan Neel,  pp. 268-272
Acoustic current profilers II
Chair(s): Terry Deveau
A diver held navigation, bathymetry measuring, and current profiling sonar system,  Joel W. Young,  pp. 273-279
Moored acoustic Doppler current profiler data reduction and database applications,  B. A. Leybourne, K. E. Cranford, and A. Morales,  pp. 280-286
Measuring wave height and direction using upward-looking ADCPs,  Eugene Terray, R. Lee Gordon, and Blair Brumley,  pp. 287-290
OASIS: Ocean ambient sound system,  L. Zedel, S. Osterhus, and R. Lee Gordon,  pp. 291-296
Spectral estimate in ADCP,  Zhu Wei-Qing, Wang Chang-Hong, Pan Feng, Zhu Min, and Zhang Xiang-Jun,  pp. 297-301
Ropes
Chair(s): Arnold Furlong; Walter Paul
New standards and guidelines bring fiber ropes into the 21st century,  James Breedlove and Gale P. Foster,  pp. 302-307
The new Cordage Institute fiber rope test methods,  John F. Flory and David E. Mercer,  pp. 308-313
Performance improvement of Dyneema® in ropes,  L. F. E. Hoppe,  pp. 314-318
Cycle history data and elongation characteristics for polyester and aramid wire-lay construction ropes,  A. S. Whitehill Sr. and Elizabeth W. Huntley,  pp. 319-324
External abrasion testing of fiber ropes,  John F. Flory,  pp. 325-330
Acoustical oceanography I
Chair(s): Paul Hill
Identification of orcinus orca by underwater acoustics in Dabob Bay,  Shaari Unger,  pp. 333-338
Measurements of sea bed ripple evolution in an estuarine environment using a high resolution acoustic sand ripple profiling system,  Paul S. Bell and Peter D. Thorne,  pp. 339-343
Seabed vegetation analysis by a 2 MHz sonar,  A. Siccardi, R. Bozzano, and R. Bono,  pp. 344-350
Sonar: Beamforming & SAS
Chair(s): Ed Sullivan; Fred Cotaras
Compensation for missing sensors in a real-time measurement beamformer system,  Timothy Gee, Kevin Pepe, Robert Collier, Kirk Everman, Eva Freer, Randall Wetherington, and Gerald Tarasek,  pp. 351-357
Low and medium frequency synthetic aperture sonar experiments on a rail,  Stéphane Guyonic, André Salaün, and Corinne Queïnnec,  pp. 358-362
Use of frequency and transmitter location diversities for ambiguity suppression in synthetic aperture sonar systems,  M. A. Pinto,  pp. 363-368
A generic beamforming structure allowing implementation of adaptive processing schemes for 2-D & 3-D arrays of sensors,  A. Tawfik, S. Stergiopoulos, and A. C. Dhanantwari,  pp. 369-373
Benthic instrumentation I
Chair(s): Sandy Williams III; Neil Oakey
New equipment for benthic habitat studies,  Donald J. Belliveau, Timothy G. Milligan, Peter Cranford, M. Chin-Yee, George Steeves, David L. McKeown, Peter Vass, and Dwight K. Muschenheim,  pp. 374-379
Proven equipment for selectively sampling the seafloor,  M. B. Chin-Yee, D. L. McKeown, and G. D. Steeves,  pp. 380-385
Precision navigation for benthic surveying and sampling,  D. L. McKeown and D. E. Heffler,  pp. 386-390
MIMS--Moored impact monitoring system,  Donald J. Belliveau, Timothy G. Milligan, Gordon D. Youle, Brian D. Beanlands, and Andrew Trivett,  pp. 391-396
AUV navigation & control I
Chair(s): Greg Leger; Doug Huntington
Asynchronous data fusion for AUV navigation via heuristic fuzzy filtering techniques,  P. E. An, A. J. Healey, J. Park, and S. M. Smith,  pp. 397-402
The navigation system of an autonomous underwater vehicle for Antarctic exploration,  M. Uliana, F. Andreucci, and B. Papalia,  pp. 403-408
Multiple AUVs for coastal oceanography,  João Sousa, Nuno Cruz, Aníbal Matos, and Fernando Lobo Pereira,  pp. 409-414
Marine living resources I
Chair(s): Ray Cote; Sharon Walker
Artificial reefs in British Columbia, Canada,  Anthony T. Jones and Richard W. Welsford,  pp. 415-418
Spectral identification of coral biological vigour,  Heather Holden and Ellsworth LeDrew,  pp. 419-423
Determination of reflectance of coral reefs through analysis of the diffuse attenuation coefficients for radiance through the water column,  E. LeDrew and H. Holden,  p. 424
Statistical analysis of horizontal distributions of optical characteristics and temperature in the North Atlantic,  V. I. Burenkov and M. A. Evdoshenko,  pp. 425-429
Signal processing
Chair(s): David Chapman
Cramér-Rao bounds for shallow water environmental parameter estimation,  Peter M. Daly and Arthur B. Baggeroer,  pp. 430-435
Deconvolution for transient classification using fourth order statistics,  Michael K. Broadhead and Lisa A. Pflug,  pp. 436-440
Horizontal expansion function in OAT,  Tomio Shinke, Takao Itoh, Takashi Kamoshida, Akio Kaya, and Masaru Matushita,  pp. 441-446
Tracking a moving acoustic source in a three-dimensional space,  Paul Connelly, Bryan Woodward, and David Goodson,  pp. 447-450
Shallow water
Chair(s): George Frisk; Yolande Bonin
Thin, acoustic lenses applied in 64-beam, 750-kHz diver-held sonar,  Edward O. Belcher,  pp. 451-456
Interpretation of acoustic backscatter measurements using a cross-correlation technique to evaluate near-bed current velocities,  Peter D. Thorne and Glenn P. Holdaway,  pp. 457-461
The determination of signal coherence length based on signal coherence and gain measurements in deep and shallow water,  William M. Carey,  pp. 462-470
The Eastern Canada Shallow Water Ambient Noise experiment,  Mark G. Hazen and Francine Desharnais,  pp. 471-476
Correlation & validation
Chair(s): Jim Hamilton
Results of a high-resolution correlation current profiler,  Robert F. van Unen, Sicco D. Kamminga, and Dick Nijveldt,  pp. 477-482
High-resolution near-seabed velocity and sediment transport profiling,  Robert F. van Unen, Kees J. M. van Ruiten, and Jan J. Bosman,  pp. 483-488
Verification and validation of underwater models,  David W. Gledhill and John D. Illgen,  pp. 489-495
Sonar: Target detection & classification
Chair(s): Dale Ellis
Classification of very wide bandwidth acoustic signals,  Roger F. Dwyer,  pp. 496-499
Statistical normalization of non-Rayleigh reverberation,  Douglas A. Abraham,  pp. 500-505
A non-linear phase-only algorithm for active sonar signal processing,  Francis Chan and Eric Rabe,  pp. 506-511
Below critical angle detection of buried objects,  A. Maguer, S. Fioravanti, and A. Lovik,  pp. 512-517
Benthic instrumentation II
Chair(s): Don Belliveau
Results from the first deployment of the BASS Rake field prototype,  Archie T. Morrison III,  pp. 518-523
SuperBASS tripod for benthic turbulence measurement,  Albert J. Williams III, Donald B. Peters, Allan G. Gordon, and John H. Trowbridge,  pp. 524-527
A high resolution electronic still camera with full ocean depth housing,  Robert G. Goldsborough III, Ray Simpson, Ben Allen, and Roger Stokey,  p. 528
Investigation of estuarine turbulent flow and suspended sediment structures using high resolution coherent Doppler current profilers and a Sontek ADV ocean probe,  P. J. Hardcastle,  pp. 529-534
AUV navigation & control II
Chair(s): Chris von Alt
"RATS", a relative acoustic tracking system developed for deep ocean navigation,  Thomas C. Austin, Roger Stokey, Chris von Alt, Richard Arthur, and Rob Goldsborough,  pp. 535-540
Terrain-relative navigation for autonomous underwater vehicles,  D. E. di Massa and W. K. Stewart Jr.,  pp. 541-546
Electric field measurement at sea,  J. Y. Bruxelle,  pp. 547-550
Marine living resources II
Chair(s): Mike Mitchell
Scanning sonar as a supplement to conventional acoustic fish stock assessment in Atlantic Canada,  N. A. Cochrane and G. D. Melvin,  pp. 551-556
Population dynamics and spatial distribution of phycotoxic microalgae associated with shellfish aquaculture sites in Nova Scotia,  A. Cembella, A. Bauder, N. Lewis, M. Quilliam, J. Lawrence, J. Manuel, and U. Lobsiger,  p. 557
The importance of marine industry markets to national economies,  John Westwood and Hugh Young,  pp. 558-568
Acoustic communications I
Chair(s): Anthony Ashley; Jim Collins
Performance improvements of a 50 km acoustic transmission through adaptive equalization and spatial diversity,  Vittorio Capellano,  pp. 569-573
Underwater spread-spectrum communications,  Gérard Loubet, Vittorio Capellano, and Richard Filipiak,  pp. 574-579
Efficient equalizer update algorithms for acoustic communication channels of varying complexity,  Lee Freitag, Mark Johnson, and Milica Stojanovic,  pp. 580-585
Shallow water--Propagation
Chair(s): Ben Gauthier; Ian Fraser
Ocean wave guide effects on acoustic and seismic U.L.F. propagation,  M. Nardin, F. Glangeaud, J. M. Vanpé, R. Ancey, P. Pignot, L. Royer, and S. Gaffet,  pp. 586-591
Underwater measurements of a sonic boom,  Francine Desharnais and David M. F. Chapman,  pp. 592-596
Spatial coherence in shallow water,  Ilya Rozenfeld, Peter Cable, William M. Carey, and William L. Siegmann,  pp. 597-601
Propagation modeling
Chair(s): Ian Fraser
A matched-field backpropagation algorithm for source localization,  D. J. Thomson, G. R. Ebbeson, and B. H. Maranda,  pp. 602-607
Volume reverberation and target echo calculations using normal modes,  Dale D. Ellis, Terry J. Deveau, and James A. Theriault,  pp. 608-611
Applying normal mode method for calculation of acoustic wave propagation in the muddy bottom coastal regions,  Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh and Mahmoud Kamarei,  pp. 612-617
Non-acoustic advanced imaging
Chair(s): Frank Caimi; Colin Ware
Recovery of 3D depth map from image shading for underwater applications,  Shaomin Zhang and Shahriar Negahdaripour,  pp. 618-625
On the development of an active vision system for 3-D scene reconstruction and analysis from underwater images,  J. A. Strickrott and S. Negahdaripour,  pp. 626-633
Station keeping of an ROV using vision technology,  Kortney N. Leabourne, Stephen M. Rock, Stephen D. Fleischer, and Richard Burton,  pp. 634-640
Global position determination and vehicle path estimation from a vision sensor for real-time video mosaicking and navigation,  Stephen D. Fleischer, Stephen M. Rock, and Richard Burton,  pp. 641-647
Oceanographic instrumentation II
Chair(s): Ian MacKay; Hugh Milburn
A new instrument for optical forward scattering phase function surveys,  Lee E. Estes, Gilbert Fain, and Joseph D. Harris II,  pp. 648-650
A multiple input fibre optic fluorometer for a coastal cost-effective AUV,  A. Siccardi, R. Bozzano, R. Mantovani, and F. Grosso,  pp. 651-654
Development of an in situ zooplankton identification and counting system based on local auto-correlational masks,  Tatsuro Akiba and Yoshimi Kakui,  pp. 655-659
Modeling and databases
Chair(s): Fred Cotaras
An environmental database for matched-field processing,  G. R. Ebbeson, J. M. Ozard, P. Wort, G. Litchfield, and C. Vigneron,  pp. 660-665
Evaluation of equivalent-fluid geoacoustic seabed models,  Jing-Fang Li and Murray Hodgson,  pp. 666-671
Shallow-water low-frequency active sonar modelling issues,  James A. Theriault and Dale D. Ellis,  pp. 672-678
"NAVO 21"--The Naval Oceanographic Office of the 21st century,  Dieter K. Rudolph and Landry J. Bernard III,  pp. 679-685
Ocean pollution & environment
Chair(s): Hugh Hall
EUROMAR-MERMAID: Experimental operation of the prototype network,  H.-D. Knauth, F. Schroeder, D. Kohnke, and F. Holzkamm,  p. 686
Measurement of ultraviolet radiation distribution on coastal area,  Yasuyuki Ohga, Toshimasa Kawanishi, Satoru Furuuchi, and Koichiro Takahashi,  pp. 687-690
Ultraviolet radiation inter a seaside house,  Norihisa Nagata, Toshimasa Kawanishi, Minako Iwase, Takayuki Yamazaki, and Takeshi Okada,  pp. 691-694
The features of near bottom nepheloid layer at the steep ocean slope near Western Africa,  M. A. Evdoshenko,  pp. 695-701
Acoustic communications II
Chair(s): Mike MacKay
Results from recent sea trials of the Underwater Digital Acoustic Telemetry System,  S. Jarvis, R. Janiesch, K. Fitzpatrick, and R. Morrissey,  pp. 702-708
Acoustic characterization of the Odyssey II autonomous underwater vehicles,  Bradley A. Moran, Neil J. Dubois, David Morton, Charles Gedney, and James Griffin,  pp. 709-713
AUV navigation & control III
Chair(s): John Gillis; Jim Collins
Experimental results of an inexpensive short baseline acoustic positioning system for AUV navigation,  S. M. Smith and D. Kronen,  pp. 714-720
At-sea calibration of a USBL underwater vehicle positioning system,  Jan Opderbecke,  pp. 721-726
Improved navigation system for USBL users,  David Jourdan and Bruce Brown,  pp. 727-735
An integrated acoustic remote sensing and communications system for tidal front mapping,  David Herold, Matthew Grund, Mark Johnson, and Keith von der Heydt,  pp. 736-742

VOLUME 2

Tomography
Chair(s): Francine Desharnais
Two inversion methods for Ocean Acoustic Tomography,  Patrick Pignot and Bernard Faure,  pp. 743-747
Modeling the mechanical and flow-induced noise on the Surface Suspended Acoustic Receiver,  Jason I. Gobat and Mark A. Grosenbaugh,  pp. 748-754
Underwater light bulb implosions: A useful acoustic source,  Garry J. Heard, M. McDonald, N. R. Chapman, and L. Jaschke,  pp. 755-762
Matched field geoacoustic tomography experiments using light bulb sound sources in the Haro Strait sea trial,  N. R. Chapman, L. Jaschke, M. A. McDonald, H. Schmidt, and M. Johnson,  pp. 763-768
A sediment imaging system using acoustic tomographic techniques,  Thomas C. Austin, Richard Arthur, Dezhang Chu, Alan Hinton, and Dajun Tang,  pp. 769-772
Signal & information processing II
Chair(s): Ferial El-Hawary; Ben Gauthier
Time-adaptive pattern recognition and prediction for situational robustness,  David H. Kil and Frances B. Shin,  pp. 773-778
Model-based array processing in a fading channel,  E. J. Sullivan,  pp. 779-783
Undersea magnetic noise reduction,  B. Déniel,  pp. 784-788
A robust discriminant parameter set for the underwater object classification,  Emanuel Radoi and André Quinquis,  pp. 789-794
Oceanographic instrumentation I--Profiling
Chair(s): Gordon Youle
Analysis of wind measurements from a moored buoy,  David Wang,  p. 795
The drifting, rotating deep-ocean shearmeter,  Timothy F. Duda and Douglas C. Webb,  pp. 796-801
Experimental set up for the artificial generation of well defined microstructures for calibration of oceanographical microstructure probes,  Werner Kroebel,  p. 802
Signal processing--Beamforming
Chair(s): Bill Carey
Towards development of autofocusing schemes for phase compensation of synthetic aperture sonars,  Valérie Tonard and Marc Brussieux,  pp. 803-808
Squint and forward looking synthetic aperture sonar,  Patrice Caprais and Stéphane Guyonic,  pp. 809-814
Detecting small seabed targets using a high frequency multibeam sonar: Geometric models and test results,  Mike B. Brissette, J. E. Hughes-Clarke, J. Bradford, and B. MacGowan,  pp. 815-819
Synthesis of aperiodic planar arrays by a stochastic approach,  Andrea Trucco,  pp. 820-825
Advanced platforms & trends
Chair(s): Robert Bannon
Multi-sensor instrumentation on a FOCUS-1500 search and survey system,  Edward Saade, Gary Parker, and Robert Morton,  p. 826
Development of the autonomous surface craft "ACES",  Justin E. Manley,  pp. 827-832
A solar autonomous underwater vehicle system,  D. R. Blidberg, James C. Jalbert, and Mikhail Ageev,  pp. 833-840
Trends in UUV development within the US Navy,  Robert L. Wernli,  pp. 841-848
Acoustic communications III
Chair(s): Mark Wood; Josko Catapovic
Autonomous control system for offshore oil explotation using digital acoustic communication,  Cassio Kuchpil, Atila L. F. Xavier, José Augusto P. da Silva, and Marcelo Roberto B. P. L. Jimenez,  pp. 849-853
Error correction coding for communication in adverse underwater channels,  Maurice D. Green and Joseph A. Rice,  pp. 854-861
A broadband UWA communication system based on COFDM modulation,  W. K. Lam and R. F. Ormondroyd,  pp. 862-869
Underwater acoustic voice communications using digital pulse position modulation,  Hayri Sari and Bryan Woodward,  pp. 870-874
AUV navigation & control IV
Chair(s): Fred Guptill
From autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV'S) to supervised underwater vehicles (SUV'S),  Hubert Thomas and Eric Petit,  pp. 875-887
Modeling and control of an autonomous underwater shuttle for the transport of benthic laboratories,  A. Aguiar and A. Pascoal,  pp. 888-895
Feature-based concurrent mapping and localization for AUVs,  Christopher M. Smith, John J. Leonard, Andrew A. Bennett, and Christopher Shaw,  pp. 896-901
Self-tuning control of autonomous underwater vehicles based on discrete variable structure system,  Pan-Mook Lee, Seok-Won Hong, and Yong-Kon Lim,  pp. 902-909
Bottom classification
Chair(s): Gordon Fader
Development and feasibility testing of an acoustic buried cable detection system,  Steve Szender and Jim Kosalos,  pp. 913-920
Acoustic seabed classification and correlation analysis of sediment properties by QTC view,  Alexander S. Tsemahman, William T. Collins, and Bradley T. Prager,  pp. 921-926
Multi-beam high frequency imaging in a range-dependent environment,  Melvin D. Wagstaff, Roger W. Meredith, and Heidi A. Terrill-Stolper,  pp. 927-931
Multibeam sonar data processing
Chair(s): Russell Parrott; Roger Dwyer
Multibeam sonar bottom detection using multiple subarrays,  Luren Yang and Torfinn Taxt,  pp. 932-938
Real-time bathymetric artifact flagging for the SeaBeam 2100 system,  Sharon E. Spitzak and Kushal K. Talukdar,  pp. 939-942
Bottom detection for multibeam sonars with active contours,  Luren Yang, Torfinn Taxt, and Fritz Albregtsen,  pp. 943-950
Ropes and cables
Chair(s): James Hamilton; Frank Leban
Marine fouling of optical fibre micro-cables,  Hedley Pullin and Andrew B. Yule,  pp. 951-956
Corrosion resistance of certain strength wires used in small fiber-optic cables exposed to seawater,  Colin J. Sandwith and Robert L. Ruedisueli,  pp. 957-963
Synthetic ropes subjected to tension and trolley loads,  P. Petrina and S. L. Phoenix,  pp. 964-966
Mapping, charting & surveillance
Chair(s): Maurice Moroney Jr.
Tidal overlay and dynamic ECDIS--A giant step from paper chart and tide tables,  Bohdan Pillich,  pp. 967-973
Registration algorithms for geophysical maps,  Behzad Kamgar-Parsi and Behrooz Kamgar-Parsi,  pp. 974-980
Integrated maritime surveillance (IMS) for the Grand Banks,  R. E. Moutray and A. M. Ponsford,  pp. 981-986
AUV systems
Chair(s): Claude Brancart
Sea trials of AUV "R-One robot" equipped with a closed cycle diesel engine system,  Tamaki Ura and Takashi Obara,  pp. 987-993
REMUS: A small, low cost AUV; system description, field trials and performance results,  Ben Allen, Roger Stokey, Tom Austin, Ned Forrester, Rob Goldsborough, Mike Purcell, and Chris von Alt,  pp. 994-1000
The Theseus autonomous underwater vehicle--A Canadian success story,  J. M. Thorleifson, T. C. Davies, M. R. Black, D. A. Hopkin, R. I. Verrall, A. Pope, I. Monteith, V. Den Hertog, and B. Butler,  pp. 1001-1006
Development of autonomous underwater vehicle 'Aqua Explorer 2' for inspection of underwater cables,  Junichi Kojima, Yoichi Kato, Kenichi Asakawa, Sigetaka Matumoto, Satoru Takagi, and Naomi Kato,  pp. 1007-1012
Remote sensing II--Radar
Chair(s): Jim Hanlon
Field experiment with an ocean surface current sensing microwave radar,  H. H. Shih, R. Williams, C. L. Sun, and I. P. Popstefanija,  pp. 1013-1018
Surface current response to land-sea breeze circulation in Monterey Bay, California as observed by a new multifrequency HF radar,  John F. Vesecky, Calvin C. Teague, Robert G. Onstott, Jason M. Daida, Peter Hansen, Dan Fernandez, Neil Schnepf, and Ken Fischer,  pp. 1019-1024
The use of near real-time in-situ sea level to improve global data bases,  Bernard J. Kilonsky, Mark Merrifield, and Patrick Caldwell,  pp. 1025-1034
Marine education
Chair(s): Fred Crickard; Aldo Chircop
Coral reef curricular materials translation project,  Sharon H. Walker, Amanda Newton, and Alida Ortiz,  p. 1035
GMDSS training--The impact of new technology,  David Underwood,  pp. 1036-1040
The Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center: A national clearinghouse and partnership network for the effective training of oceanographic, marine, coastal and environmental technicians,  Susan Cook, Nicole Crane, Kam Matray, Vince Kelley, Tom Murphree, and Andrew Palowitch,  pp. 1041-1042
Transducers I
Chair(s): Yolande Bonin
An application of tapered, PZT composite lenses in an acoustic imaging sonar with 1-cm resolution,  Edward O. Belcher and Dana C. Lynn,  pp. 1043-1047
Spectral control of sparker acoustic sources,  Raymond B. Schaefer,  pp. 1048-1053
Design and development of a constant beamwidth transducer for sub-bottom acoustic profiling,  K. C. Benjamin, A. K. Walden, and A. L. Van Buren,  pp. 1054-1059
Simulation & decision making
Chair(s): Joe Maksym
Managing oceanographic information in the military decision-making process,  James A. McNitt,  pp. 1060-1063
ROV simulation validation and verification,  Barbara Fletcher,  pp. 1064-1069
6 DOF nonlinear AUV simulation toolbox,  Xiaodong Chen, Dave Marco, Sam Smith, Edgar An, K. Ganesan, and Tony Healey,  pp. 1070-1074
Performance evaluation of data compression transforms for underwater imaging and object recognition,  Mark S. Schmalz, Gerhard X. Ritter, and Frank M. Caimi,  pp. 1075-1081
Observation & testing facilities
Chair(s): Andy Bowen; Hugh Milburn
The LEO-15 Long-term ecosystem observatory: Design and installation,  Ned C. Forrester, Roger P. Stokey, Christopher von Alt, Ben G. Allen, Robert G. Goldsborough, Michael J. Purcell, and Thomas C. Austin,  pp. 1082-1088
Use of tow tanks to study sensitive current meters,  F. T. Thwaites and A. J. Williams III,  pp. 1089-1093
Oceanographic test facility at Duck Pier, NC,  C. E. Woody, R. Dagnall, E. Michelena, D. McGehee, G. Bichner, and T. Mero,  pp. 1094-1098
Observation & testing facilities
Chair(s): Andy Bowen; Hugh Milburn
Wave measurements in Upper Galveston Bay, TX (USA),  W. D. Corson, J. P. Rhee, T. L. Welp, and J. P. McKinney,  pp. 1099-1103
Positioning & navigation
Chair(s): John Illgen
POS/MV - System performance with inertial/RTK GPS integration,  Steven Woolven, Bruno Scherzinger, and Mark Field,  pp. 1104-1108
Development of dynamic positioning buoy for vertical sensing: DGPS based system via satellite phones,  Ken Ishii, Tetsuji Mitarai, Katsuo Hasegawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Hiroaki Saito, and Tadahiro Arimura,  pp. 1109-1113
Bird orientation effects in quantitative airborne electromagnetic interpretation of pack ice thickness sounding,  J. Scott Holladay, Bob Lo, and Simon K. Prinsenberg,  pp. 1114-1119
Evaluation of RTK-OTF positioning system for free running manoeubrability test of a model ship,  Michio Ueno, Tadashi Nimura, Toshifumi Fujiwara, and Koji Nonaka,  pp. 1120-1125
AUV docking
Chair(s): Angus Wing
Intelligent docking for an autonomous ocean sampling network,  Hanumant Singh, Martin Bowen, Franz Hover, Phillip LeBas, and Dana Yoerger,  pp. 1126-1131
A docking system for REMUS, an autonomous underwater vehicle,  Roger Stokey, Michael Purcell, Ned Forrester, Thomas Austin, Ron Goldsborough, Ben Allen, and Christopher von Alt,  pp. 1132-1136
Autonomous underwater vehicle homing/docking via electromagnetic guidance,  Michael D. Feezor, Paul R. Blankinship, James G. Bellingham, and F. Yates Sorrell,  pp. 1137-1142
Underwater docking of autonomous undersea vehicles using optical terminal guidance,  Steve Cowen, Susan Briest, and James Dombrowski,  pp. 1143-1147
Remote sensing III-Radar
Chair(s): Dirk Werle
A method for computing calibrated ocean wave spectra from measurements with a nautical X-band radar,  Jörg Seemann, Friedwart Ziemer, and Christian M. Senet,  pp. 1148-1154
Active/passive microwave method for sea surface temperature estimation,  Nai-Yu Wang and John F. Vesecky,  pp. 1155-1157
Satellite radar scatterometer (NSCAT) studies of ocean surface stress in near coastal regions,  David E. Weissman,  p. 1158
Comparison between AVHRR real time and ERS-2 SAR near real time data in an oceanographic cruise in the western Mediterranean,  Oscar Chic, Jordi Font, and Zacarías García,  pp. 1159-1163
Marine safety & coastal management
Chair(s): Peter Mushkat; Sharon Walker
Using the world wide web to link marine scientists and educators,  Frances Lee Larkin and Vicki P. Clark,  pp. 1164-1168
Conversion of fishing vessels and training of fishermen for oceanographic surveys,  John H. Ryther Jr. and Charlotte M. Cogswell,  pp. 1169-1171
Global Considerations for vessel traffic control and electronics navigation navigation systems on inland waterways,  Maurice J. Moroney Jr.,  p. 1172
Nondestructive testing of wooden vessels,  Kurt A. Hansen,  pp. 1173-1187
Transducers II
Chair(s): Dale Ellis; Robert Farwell
1-3 piezocomposites, sonopanels, arrays, and smartpanels,  Richard Gentilman, Daniel Fiore, Patrick McGuire, Craig Near, and William Serwatka,  p. 1188
Combined finite element-boundary element analysis of a viscoelastic anechoic panel for underwater applications,  A. Di Meglio, J. C. Jones, R. F. W. Coates, D. T. I. Francis, and L. S. Wang,  pp. 1189-1194
Development of a broadband underwater sound projector,  Thomas R. Howarth and Robert Y. Ting,  pp. 1195-1201
Design of a hydrophone array for littoral waters,  Kirk E. Jenne and Larry E. Ivey,  p. 1202
Visualization of oceanographic data
Chair(s): Larry Mayer
Gray-scale visualization of wave spectra in an ocean eddy,  Ian A. Fraser and W. Cary Risley,  pp. 1203-1208
Three-dimensional visualization of oceanographic data: A case study of the Gulf of Mexico's coastal interface with Texas and Louisiana,  Gilbert L. Rochon, Phu V. Luong, J. Houston Costolo, Gregory Ruby, and Ludwig A. Goon,  p. 1209
Applications of 3-D visualizations of oceanographic data bases,  Martha E. M. Head, Phu Luong, J. Houston Costolo, Kenneth Countryman, and Carl Szczechowski,  pp. 1210-1215
Interactive 3D tools for pipeline route planning,  Mark Paton, Larry Mayer, and Colin Ware,  pp. 1216-1221
Handling systems & logistics
Chair(s): Catherine Woody; John Flory
Devising a misalignment tolerant subsea grasping system,  Edward R. Snow and Dana R. Yoerger,  pp. 1222-1229
Dynamical measurements of ship crane load pendulation,  M. D. Todd, S. T. Vohra, and F. Leban,  pp. 1230-1236
Telerobotic shipboard handling system,  Geoff Lebans, Ken Wilkie, Rickey Dubay, David Crabtree, and Tim Edmonds,  pp. 1237-1241
Seabed mapping
Chair(s): Don Dinn; Glen Gilbert
CARAIBES: An integrated software for multibeam echosounder and sidescan sonar data mapping,  L. Le Gal and C. Edy,  pp. 1242-1245
Principal components array processing for swath acoustic mapping,  Paul H. Kraeutner and John S. Bird,  pp. 1246-1254
Multibeam echo sounder for EEZ mapping,  Erik Hammerstad,  pp. 1255-1259
Multibeam seabed topographic classification,  John A. Bunce and Marian O. Clough,  pp. 1260-1265
Simulation & control
Chair(s): Zhizhang David Chen
Conceptual re-design techniques utilised for optimisation of a mine countermeasure towed acoustic generator control system,  J. S. Baker and D. C. Cowling,  pp. 1266-1269
SCIMERS: A sonar contact integrated manoeuver evaluation and recommendation system,  Todd Michael Mansell and Bruce McArthur,  pp. 1270-1276
Simulation and active control of towed undersea vehicles,  D. Perrault, G. Hackett, and M. Nahon,  pp. 1277-1282
Remote sensing IV-Circulation
Chair(s): Brian Whitehouse
Pack ice stress and convergence measurements by satellite-tracked ice beacons,  S. J. Prinsenberg, A. van der Baaren, G. A. Fowler, and I. K. Peterson,  pp. 1283-1289
Iceberg tracking using HF surface wave radar,  H. C. Chan, T. W. Davies, and P. Hall,  pp. 1290-1296
Prediction of sea ice movement using satellite data,  Chang Kyu Rheem and Hisaaki Maeda,  pp. 1297-1302
An air deployable buoy for search and rescue operations,  W. Cary Risley, Gregory T. Leger, and Anthony Patterson,  pp. 1303-1307
Ocean economic development
Chair(s): Ross Piercey; David King
Physical environmental services in support of the Hibernia offshore platform towout and installation,  L. W. Davidson and Susan K. Woodbury,  pp. 1308-1313
The use of marine manganese tailings in industrial coatings applications,  John C. Wiltshire,  pp. 1314-1319
Changing markets and emerging performers in Hawaii's ocean R&D industry,  Craig D. MacDonald, Andrea L. LaBarge, and Elizabeth Corbin,  pp. 1320-1325
Role of sewage phosphorus in coastal water energy production,  B. Manimaran, V. Ramadhas, and R. Santhanam,  pp. 1326-1329
Transducers III
Chair(s): Dennis Jones
An ultrasonic calibration system for the University of New Hampshire Center for Ocean Engineering,  Kenneth C. Baldwin, Stephen Boucher, Christopher N. Pacheco, and Mike Simoneau,  pp. 1330-1338
Calibration of a directional hydrophone in a hydroacoustic tank using the Prony method,  David Schlosberg,  pp. 1339-1342
Solid state methods of sonar calibration,  Alex G. Ivanov and Steven A. Wright,  pp. 1343-1346
Acoustic testing dockside & at sea of the last American SASS,  E. Gauthier, T. Peterson, and A. Marino,  pp. 1347-1352
Noise suppression and component extraction of underwater acoustic signals,  Gabriel Thomas and Alejandro E. Brito,  pp. 1353-1358
Sonar: Sea-bottom classification
Chair(s): Robert Farwell
FM pulses separation for improving sub-bottom attenuation estimation,  André Quinquis, Emanuel Radoi, and Claire Sophie Maroni,  pp. 1359-1364
Applications of an image segmentation technique to multibeam echo-sounder data,  J. M. Augustin, S. Dugelay, X. Lurton, and M. Voisset,  pp. 1365-1369
A methodology for neural network based classification of marine sediments using a subbottom profiler,  Claire-Sophie Maroni, André Quinquis, and Emanuel Radoi,  pp. 1370-1375
Application of a parametric source for sediment characterisation and object detection,  Johnny Dybedal, Oddbjørn Bergem, and Arne Løvik,  p. 1376
Seabed engineering & geology
Chair(s): Ed Early
Repetitive surveys to assess sand ridge movement offshore Sable Island,  Roger W. Ingersoll and Barry A. Ryan,  pp. 1377-1393
Characteristics of iceberg pits on the grand banks of Newfoundland,  Susan Davidson, Alvin Simms, Gary Sonnichsen, and Phil Clark,  p. 1394
Seabottom roughness measurement by aquatic walking robot,  Jun'ichi Akizono, Toshinari Tanaka, Katsuei Nakagawa, Takashi Tsuji, and Mineo Iwasaki,  pp. 1395-1398
A model of wave propagation over a sloping bottom,  Lotfi Aouf,  pp. 1399-1403
Seabed navigation
Chair(s): Stan Chamberlain
Deep water bottom-track ship's velocities from an acoustic correlation current profiler,  Gwyn Griffiths, Steven E. Bradley, and Simon Ruiz,  pp. 1404-1410
Dead reckoning with an ADCP and current extrapolation,  Ned A. Brokloff,  p. 1411
Vision-based motion sensing for underwater navigation and mosaicing of ocean floor images,  Xun Xu and Shahriar Negahdaripour,  pp. 1412-1417
Vision based autonomous underwater vehicle navigation: Underwater cable tracking,  B. A. A. P. Balasuriya, M. Takai, W. C. Lam, Tamaki Ura, and Y. Kuroda,  pp. 1418-1424
A vision system for underwater real-time control tasks,  Alberto Ortiz, Gabriel Oliver, and Juan Frau,  pp. 1425-1430
Simulation & modeling
Chair(s): Lee Estes
Synthetic Environment Tactical Integration Virtual Torpedo Project,  Kenneth L. Dotson and G. Edward Roberts,  pp. 1431-1436
Extensible physical oceanographic real-time system (PORTS),  Wayne L. Wilmot, Jerry A. Galt, and Ralph T. Cheng,  pp. 1437-1441
A nowcast model for hazardous material spill prevention and response, San Francisco Bay, California,  Ralph T. Cheng, Wayne L. Wilmot, and Jerry A. Galt,  pp. 1442-1447
Current pattern analysis for oil-spills - A case study using San Francisco Bay,  Jerry A. Galt, Ralph T. Cheng, and Wayne L. Wilmot,  pp. 1448-1452
Geoscience instruments
Chair(s): Dave Heffler
Monitoring system for submarine earthquakes and deep sea environment,  Hiroyasu Momma, Noriyuki Fujiwara, Katsuyoshi Kawaguchi, Ryoichi Iwase, Shinichiro Suzuki, and Hajimu Kinoshita,  pp. 1453-1459
ORB-A new ocean bottom seismic data logger,  F. B. Wooding, K. R. Peal, J. T. Hallinan, and J. A. Collins,  pp. 1460-1465
The design and testing of a free-fall device for recording seismic activity beneath the ocean floor,  J. C. Jones, A. Di Meglio, R. F. W. Coates, and P. R. Atkins,  pp. 1466-1474
Multibeam bathymetric data for regional assessment of marine geology,  Russell Parrott, Gordon Fader, John Shaw, and John Hughes-Clarke,  pp. 1475-1480
Surface platforms & equipment
Chair(s): Charles Schafer
Meeting mission needs through proper technology application and platform selection,  Hank Lobe,  pp. 1481-1487
Wideband passive mechanical mounting systems for disk drives on boats in rough seas,  Norman Dennis,  pp. 1488-1495
External magnetic field active compensation for large shipboard-type AC machines,  Alexander V. Kildishev,  pp. 1496-1501
Transducers I
Chair(s): Yolande Bonin
Commerical and scientific applications of deep towed sidescan sonar systems,  Arthur St. C. Wright,  p. 1502
Vehicle Control
Chair(s): Lisa Quesnel
An electronic navigational aid for pilots--Designed by pilots,  David A. Phinney,  p. 1503
Mapping, charting & surveillance
Chair(s): Maurice Moroney Jr.
World geodetic system 1984--A summary of enhancements through the development of the new geopotential model EGM96,  Patrick J. Fell,  p. 1504
Remote sensing II--Radar
Chair(s): Jim Hanlon
Snow thickness radar system,  Louis Lalumiere,  p. 1505