Proceedings of IEEE Oceans'93 Conference
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| Victoria Conference Centre, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA | October 18-21, 1993 |
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VOLUME 1
Program:Engineering in harmony with the ocean
Sub-Program: Technical program
Oceanic microwave remote sensing
Recent results in model-based wind retrieval, D. G. Long and J. Gunther, pp. 1-6
The application of a Ku-band scatterometer model function for friction velocity to SEASAT measurements and to airborne scatterometer measurements, David E. Weissman, pp. 7-12
Shipboard studies of L-, C-, and X-band backscatter and surface wind forcing during NORCSEX'91, K. L. Davidson, P. A. Frederickson, and R. G. Onstott, pp. 13-19
Ocean remote sensing with airborne Ku-band scatterometer, S. V. Nghiem, F. K. Li, S. H. Lou, and G. Neumann, pp. 20-24
Sea clutter measurements using an airborne X-band radar, W. Stehwien, pp. 25-30
Polarimetric passive remote sensing of wind-generated sea surfaces and ocean wind vectors, S. H. Yueh, R. Kwok, F. K. Li, S. V. Nghiem, W. J. Wilson, and J. A. Kong, pp. 31-36
An ultra wide band radar for the study of Air/Sea interaction, D. G. Long, D. A. Arnold, and R. Reed, pp. 37-39
Properties of marine radar imagery and directional spectra of the sea surface, Joseph R. Buckley, pp. 40-45
Altimetry in the Gulf of Mexico: An examination of ERS-1 and TOPEX/POSEIDON, Donald R. Johnson, pp. 46-50
On the mesoscale variability observed in the North Atlantic by satellite altimeters, Ye. A. Kulikov and A. N. Zueva, pp. 51-54
Coastal HF radar
High frequency ground wave radar measurement of ocean surface parameters during the ERS-1 calibration-validation experiment, E. W. Gill, R. K. Howell, K. Hickey, J. Walsh, and B. J. Dawe, pp. 55-60
A comparison between predicted and measured sea echo Doppler spectra for surface wave radar, A. M. Ponsford, pp. 61-66
Networking multiple HF radar systems with common coverage overlap, Donald E. Barrick, pp. 67-70
Special session on shallow water acoustics
Acoustical characterization of a shallow water environment from sparse data, Daniel Rouseff, Robert P. Porter, and Warren L. J. Fox, pp. 71-75
A shallow water channel characterization for underwater acoustic telemetry, Lee E. Estes, Gilbert Fain, and Doris Carvalho, pp. 76-80
Continuous modes and shallow water sound propagation, C. T. Tindle and Z. Y. Zhang, pp. 81-86
Anomalous sound propagation in shallow water due to internal wave solitons, Ji-Xun Zhou, Xue-Zhen Zhang, Peter H. Rogers, Dezhao Wang, and Ensheng Luo, pp. 87-92
Statistics of shallow water, high-frequency acoustic scattering and propagation, Marcia A. Wilson, Robert W. Farwell, and Steve Stanic, pp. 93-98
Environmentally adaptive signal processing in shallow water, Stephen N. Wolf, Douglas K. Cooper, and Bradley J. Orchard, pp. 99-104
The influence of sediment layering and geoacoustics on the propagation of Scholte interface waves, Hassan B. Ali and L. Dale Bibee, pp. 105-113
Scholte wave attenuation estimates from two diverse test sites, Michael K. Broadhead, Hassan B. Ali, and L. Dale Bibee, pp. 114-118
Ocean-bottom geoacoustic measurements in the ice-covered Lincoln Sea, S. E. Dosso, G. H. Brooke, R. D. Huston, and J. P. Todoeschuck, pp. 119-124
Synthetic aperture sonar
Motion compensation feasibility for high resolution synthetic aperture sonar, Barton D. Huxtable and E. Michael Geyer, pp. 125-131
Detection and imaging performance of a synthetic aperture sonar, D. Billon, F. Le Clerc, and L. Hué, pp. 132-137
Water & particle sampling
'SMARTRAP': An instrumented, multi-sample, in-situ, computer-controlled, programmable particle collector for near-shore sedimentation studies, George Steeves, Greg Siddall, Garon Awalt, and Barry Hargrave, pp. 138-143
A compact CTD system with programmable controller for obtaining in situ water samples, David Bitterman and Doug Wilson, pp. 144-148
Materials
The dimensional change of polymers under high hydrostatic pressure, Regina A. Middaugh and Clifford A. Goudey, pp. 149-154
Polymer concrete high voltage insulators for the ocean environment, M. Gunasekaran, pp. 155-157
Monitoring corrosion in submarine sonar domes, C. J. Sandwith, R. L. Ruedisueli, K. G. Booth, J. P. Papageorge, and B. A. Eng, pp. 158-163
Buoys and ocean instrumentation
Instrumentation to measure electromagnetic fields on continental shelves, R. A. Petitt Jr., J. H. Filloux, H. H. Moeller, and A. D. Chave, pp. 164-168
Autonomous underwater vehicles
Baby sub: A conceptual learning approach to planning and control of AUVs, Alberto Lacaze and Michael Meystel, pp. 169-174
Local path planning for an AUV using a cooperative control system, E. A. de Barros, H. Maeda, H. Yamato, and S. Miyajima, pp. 175-180
Interrogation of geophysical maps with uncertainty for AUV micro-navigation, S. T. Tuohy, T. Maekawa, and N. M. Patrikalakis, pp. 181-185
Development of a versatile test-bed "Twin-Burger" toward realization of intelligent behaviors of autonomous underwater vehicles, Teruo Fujii, Tamaki Ura, Yoji Kuroda, Hiroyuki Chiba, Yoshiaki Nose, and Koji Aramaki, pp. 186-191
Design of omni-directional underwater robotic vehicle, S. K. Choi, J. Yuh, and N. Keevil, pp. 192-197
VORTEX: Versatile and open subsea robot for technical EXperiment, Vincent Rigaud, Eve Coste-Manière, Michel Perrier, Alexis Peuch, and Daniel Simon, pp. 198-203
Acoustic navigation for Arctic under-ice AUV missions, Max Deffenbaugh, Henrik Schmidt, and James G. Bellingham, pp. 204-209
Theseus: A cable-laying AUV, Bruce Butler and Vince den Hertog, pp. 210-213
Propagation, boundaries, and signal processing
Data fusion for detecting sonar contacts from multiple sensors: The two sensor case, Richard L. Mason, pp. 214-219
Doppler-based detection in reverberation-limited channels: Effects of surface motion and signal spectrum, Michael H. Brill, Xavier Zabal, Mabel E. Harman, and Anthony I. Eller, pp. 220-224
Active sonar processing for shallow water, Paul M. Baggenstoss, pp. 225-230
Transducers & arrays, active
A fast method for the design of L &infty; optimal linear array functions with prescribed nulls, Dale J. Shpak, pp. 231-236
Propagation, boundaries, and signal processing
Sidescan sonar detection performance with PRN coded signals, Dennis R. Haller and David D. Lemon, pp. 237-242
Adaptive heave compensation via dynamic neural networks, D. G. Lainiotis, K. N. Plataniotis, Dinesh Menon, and C. J. Charalampous, pp. 243-248
Global thermometry
ATOC network definition, David W. Hyde, pp. 249-252
Global Acoustic Mapping of Ocean Temperatures (GAMOT), J. L. Spiesberger, D. E. Frye, J. O'Brien, H. Hurlburt, J. W. McCaffrey, M. Johnson, and J. Kenny, pp. 253-257
Designing the ATOC global array, Bruce M. Howe, Shaun W. Leach, James A. Mercer, and Robert I. Odom, pp. 258-262
Acoustic thermometry for Arctic Ocean climate, Peter N. Mikhalevsky, Robin Muench, and Arthur B. Baggeroer, pp. 263-266
Numerical solution of the acoustic wave equation using chebyshev polynomials with application to global acoustics, Matthew Dzieciuch, pp. 267-271
High efficiency, reliable low frequency sound source for acoustical oceanography, Dimitri M. Donskoy, pp. 272-277
A 300 Hz Janus-Helmholtz transducer for ocean acoustic tomography, Y. Le Gall, D. Boucher, X. Lurton, and A. M. Bruneau, pp. 278-281
Special session on acoustic monitoring of currents and surface motion
Recent development in Doppler sonar technology, Robert Pinkel, Mark Merrifield, and Jerome Smith, pp. 282-286
Doppler characteristics of sea surface reflected and scattered acoustic signals induced by surface wave motion, William I. Roderick and Roy L. Deavenport, pp. 287-292
Acoustical remote sensing of energy dissipation using scintillation analysis, Dimitris Menemenlis and David M. Farmer, pp. 293-297
A review of ocean current and vorticity measurements using long-range reciprocal acoustic transmissions, Brian D. Dushaw, David B. Chester, and Peter F. Worcester, pp. 298-305
Model-based matched filter processing for delay-Doppler measurement in a multipath dispersive ocean channel, J.-P. Hermand, pp. 306-311
Improved underway ADCP data quality through precise heading measurement, G. Griffiths, pp. 312-316
Modelling & simulation
A model for horizontal line array deployment, David S. Hammond and James F. McEachern, pp. 317-322
Hybrid statistical mechanics--Ocean circulation for efficient large scale modelling, Greg Holloway and Michael Eby, pp. 323-324
A particle-in-cell model for ice edge forecasting, G. M. Flato, pp. 325-329
Oil submersion in a wind driven sea, Ming Li and David Farmer, pp. 330-334
A model for simulating currents in eastern Juan de Fuca Strait and the southern Strait of Georgia, M. G. G. Foreman, R. A. Walters, and R. F. Henry, pp. 335-340
PLUMAxys--A comprehensive model for ocean outfall dispersion, K. C. Heidorn, E. B. Bennett, and S. G. P. Skey, pp. 341-345
Wave-driven motion
Evaluation of multibeam sonar data collected by DOLPHIN, Edit J. Kaminsky and Maria T. Kalcic, pp. 346-352
Pitch and yaw effects on very wide swath multibeam sonars, William J. Capell Sr., Christos Zabounidis, and Kushal Talukdar, pp. 353-358
Effectiveness of a two-part tow for decoupling ship motions, David Hopkin, Jon M. Preston, and Sonia Latchman, pp. 359-364
On the towfish motion characteristics of single-body vs. two-body sidescan systems, Robert M. Hubbard, pp. 365-370
Distortion and break-up of sidescan images -- Criteria and reconstruction by geocoding, Jon M. Preston and Roland Poeckert, pp. 371-377
Motion compensation for improved sidescan sonar imaging, Brett L. Douglas and Hua Lee, pp. 378-383
Neural network application to ship position estimation, D. G. Lainiotis, K. N. Plataniotis, Dinesh Menon, and C. J. Charalampous, pp. 384-389
Development of a six degree of freedom buoy design and analysis program with validating data, W. A. Venezia, A. M. Clark, and K. F. Schmitt, pp. 390-394
Posters sessions
Bioacoustic surveys of planktonic sound scatterers and of their diel and seasonal variability in the northwest Gulf of Mexico, R. A. Zimmerman, D. C. Biggs, and A. L. Anderson, p. 395
Computed tomography of biological structures in marine sediments, Thomas H. Orsi and Aubrey L. Anderson, p. 396
Parameter estimation of random modulated chirp signals, Sanyogita Shamsunder and Georgios B. Giannakis, pp. 397-398
A fuzzy logic based flight control system for "Ocean Voyager" autonomous underwater vehicle, D. Taylor Anderson, p. 399
Fuzzy rule based depth controller for variable ballast system of autonomous underwater vehicles, Min Xu and Samuel M. Smith, p. 400
An investigation of two body forces in a vortex wake, Mark Munzel, p. 401
A modern PC-based sidescan sonar acquisition and display system, Daniel L. Clapp, p. 402
Simulating underwater acoustic data using random variable transformations, Scot D. Gordon, pp. 403-404
Systematic search for multi-phase codes and design of mismatched filters for multi-user underwater sonar ranging system, Scot D. Gordon and Karl R. Griep, pp. 405-406
Fuzzy min-max neural network based classification of underwater layered media due to attenuation effects, Sayeed Setayeshi, p. 407
Real signals demodulation on a highly selective channel, H. Mariotte and P. Y. Cochet, p. 408
Passive damping to attenuate snap loading on an ROV umbilical cable, Rick Driscoll and Latigo Biggins, p. 409
Autonomous underwater vehicles
Feedback linearization control of undersea vehicles, Abdelkader Chellabi and Meyer Nahon, pp. 410-415
Special session on shallow water acoustics
Observations of acoustical scintillations in Saanich Inlet, Daniela Dilorio and David M. Farmer, pp. 416-420
Propagation, boundaries, and signal processing
Application of the operator expansion method to scattering of low frequency sound from the ocean surface, P. J. Kaczkowski and E. I. Thorsos, pp. 421-426
Array positioning, bathymetry, and geoacoustic parameter estimation in a wedge-shaped ocean environment, Garry J. Heard, pp. 427-432
A modular neural architecture for bathythermograms classification, Y. Stéphan and B. Frachon, pp. 433-438
Air-sea interactions
Wave follower instrumentation platform redesign and test, D. Barney Harris and Daniel J. DeCicco, pp. 439-443
Bottom imaging & classification
Estimation of the composite roughness model parameters, Rebecca M. Gott and Andrew B. Martinez, pp. 444-449
Special session on shallow water acoustics
Seismic penetrator technology for use in shallow water seismoacoustics, L. Dale Bibee and Jack Kolle, pp. 450-454
Signal processing for bio-acoustics
A neural network method for recognition of individual orcinus orca based on their acoustic behaviour: Phase 1, W. Gaetz, K. Jantzen, H. Weinberg, P. Spong, and H. Symonds, pp. 455-457
Imaging methods
Comparison of inverse scattering and other tomographic imaging algorithms using simulated and tank data for modeling subbottom imaging systems, Steven A. Johnson, Michael J. Berggren, David T. Borup, James W. Wiskin, Richard S. Eidens, and Hong Leng, pp. 458-462
Localization
Partitioning algorithms in underwater passive target tracking, Sokratis K. Katsikas and Demetrios G. Lainiotis, pp. 463-468
Synthetic aperture radar
Surface feature visibility in ERS-1 SAR images of the west coast of Canada, J. F. R. Gower, pp. 469-472
Optical remote sensing
States of arts on laser remote sensing techniques of sea surface roughness in Russia, S. A. Sviridov, pp. 473-481
Bathymetry
Advances in multibeam echo sounder technology, Erik Hammerstad, Stein Åsheim, Kjell Nilsen, and Helge Bodholt, pp. 482-487
Optical remote sensing
Surface sensing method, S. A. Sviridov and A. I. Sudbin, pp. 488-491
VOLUME 2
Program:Engineering in harmony with the ocean
Sub-Program: Technical program
Radar backscatter measurements, statistics, and theory (saxon-fpn)
Determination of ocean environmental parameters from a Ka-band scatterometer, C. Evans, S. Haimov, and R. K. Moore, pp. 1-4
Optimum detection of Weibull-distributed targets, M. Rose, S. Haimov, and R. K. Moore, pp. 5-9
Ocean backscatter distribution functions at mid incidence, B. L. Gotwols, D. R. Thompson, and R. D. Chapman, p. 10
The statistics of radar backscatter phase and a compaison of Doppler frequency estimates, R. D. Chapman, B. L. Gotwols, and R. E. Sterner, p. 11
Comparisons of model predictions for the total amplitude probability density function with measurements from SAXON FPN, D. R. Thompson and B. L. Gotwols, p. 12
Acoustic and microwave backscattering of the sea surface, Bernd Nützel, Heinz Herwig, and Anke Schmidt, pp. 13-18
Non-fourier spectral characterizations of the ocean surface: New theoretical models of ocean surface radar scattering, Glenn A. Jensen and John F. Vesecky, pp. 19-24
A study of bispectrum from narrow band nonlinear surfaces, K. S. Chen and A. K. Fung, pp. 25-29
Polar instrumentation
Horizontal magnetic field fluctuations measured in the Lincoln Sea, B. J. Sotirin and J. L. Newton, pp. 30-34
The use of an innovative solid towed array for exploring the Antarctic marine environment, R. A. Marschall, D. L. Stinson, R. E. Pearce, E. Boyer, and B. Embry, pp. 35-40
Multi-season acoustic tomography experiment in the Arctic, Kenneth R. Peal, Subamaniam D. Rajan, and George V. Frisk, pp. 41-46
Automated ice-ocean environmental buoys (IOEBs) for the telemetry of air, ice and ocean data from the polar oceans, R. Krishfield, S. Honjo, W. B. Tucker III, T. Nakanishi, and T. Takizawa, pp. 47-52
Transducers & arrays, passive
Calibration of an underwater sound source at very low frequency, P. Scrimger, D. M. Henderson, and N. R. Chapman, pp. 53-58
The OMEGA acoustic research system, W. C. Risley and A. A. Bruce, pp. 59-64
A free-floating, steerable, HF sonar for environmental measurements, Paul C. Hines, J. Stuart Hutton, and Arthur J. Collier, pp. 65-70
Bathymetry
Performance limitations on travel time and phase data extraction for bathymetry side-scan sonars, J. Sun and R. C. Tyce, pp. 71-76
Application of high-resolution beamforming to multibeam swath bathymetry, D. Pantzartzis, C. de Moustier, and D. Alexandrou, pp. 77-82
Utilization of shipboard transducers to create single ping three dimensional bathymetry, A. Marino, M. DiLemmo, and L. Smith, pp. 83-88
Automated error detection in multibeam bathymetry data, Scott Shaw and James Arnold, pp. 89-94
A surface weaving approach to multibeam depth estimation, James Arnold and Scott Shaw, pp. 95-99
Bouys and ocean instrumentation
The measurement of wind speed in high seas by meteorological buoys, S. G. P. Skey, K. C. Heidorn, S. Jarvin, and V. R. Swail, pp. 100-104
WSD/barometric test buoys deployed in the Gulf of Mexico, Neil Van de Voorde and Eduardo D. Michelena, pp. 105-110
Improved data telemetry and location via satellite for ocean environment applications, J. L. Wingenroth, pp. 111-116
Acoustic extnesometer: A precise low-cost array for horizontal deformation monitoring on the sea floor, Christian Meinig, Hugh Milburn, and William Chadwick, pp. 117-121
Optimum positioning of deep-water buoys to provide reliable meteo-marine information, C. Di Giuliomaria, R. Sacco, L. Nenci, P. Zampi, and P. Pisani, pp. 122-127
Data from the sea..., the U.S. Navy's AN/WSQ-6 (series) drifting buoy program, H. D. Selsor, pp. 128-133
The removal of wind from near surface oceanographic data records using cross spectral techniques, P. D. Baker and S. Pond, pp. 134-139
Design, construction, and load testing of a large scale helicopter deployed spar buoy, R. R. Pellegrini and W. A. Venezia, pp. 140-145
Power sources
Development of proton exchange membrane fuel cells for underwater applications, Alfred P. Meyer, pp. 146-151
Power system for new MBARI ROV, Ed Mellinger, pp. 152-157
Aluminum-hydrogen peroxide power system for an unmanned underwater vehicle, G. D. Deuchars, J. R. Hill, J. Stannard, and D. C. Stockburger, pp. 158-165
Hydrogen storage for fuel Cell Powered Underwater vehicles, Rob Baumert and Danny Epp, pp. 166-171
Subsea electric generator, J. P. von der Weid, J. A. P. da Silva, A. L. Gama, and A. C. Sant'Anna, pp. 172-176
Air-sea interactions
A disposable ship launched free-floating air/water interface probe, James H. Meyer, pp. 177-182
A coherent averaging technique for resolving directional wave spectra, Ian J. Booth and Mark V. Trevorrow, pp. 183-188
Wavelet analysis of breaking wave data, D. A. Caughey and R. L. Kirlin, pp. 189-192
Passive acoustical measurements of scale, probability, and intensity of wave breaking, Li Ding and David Farmer, pp. 193-197
Climatology
Climate information systems-a marine perspective, K. C. Heidorn and S. G. P. Skey, pp. 198-201
Interdisciplinary environmental information synthesis: Examples of jumps, cycles, and trends in the North Pacific climate, 1930-1990, Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer, Carol A. Coomes, and Wendell V. Tangborn, pp. 202-206
Seasonal climatology of Atlantic and polar Arctic water types for the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian seas from volumetric analysis, Fred J. Tanis and T. O. Manley, pp. 207-212
Wavenumber-frequency spectra of large-scale disturbances in the atmosphere and sea surface temperature in the mid-latitudes of the North Atlantic, Ye. A. Kulikov, pp. 213-217
Localization
Passive localization using a spatially-referenced towed array, Geoffrey S. Edelson and Donald W. Tufts, pp. 218-223
Source localization using a non-traditional three-dimensional ocean modeler, C. M. DeAngelis and R. W. Green, pp. 224-228
Trajectory optimization for minimum range error in bearings-only source localization, James P. Helferty, David R. Mudgett, and John E. Dzielski, pp. 229-234
A robust pre-filtering approach to EKF underwater target tracking, Ferial El-Hawary and Yuyang Jing, pp. 235-240
Application of adaptive beamforming to the unequally spaced, crooked, fixed bottomed line array in the shallow water, Y. P. Lee and J. Hanna, pp. 241-246
Cramer-Rao lower bounds for multi-sensor localization, John A. Fawcett and Brian H. Maranda, pp. 247-252
An architecture for DOA estimation for broad-band sources, R. Tabar, M. M. Jamali, and S. C. Kwatra, pp. 253-258
Modified LMS algorithms for high speed underwater acoustic signal processing, En-Fang Sang and Hen-Geul Yeh, pp. 259-264
Performance evaluation of the MDOAM and SSM methods, F. A. Sakarya and M. H. Hayes III, pp. 265-270
Performance characterization of artificial neural networks for contact tracking, David J. Ferkinhoff, Chung T. Nguyen, Sherry E. Hammel, and Kai F. Gong, pp. 271-276
Hydrodynamic of vehicles
Determination of the hydrodynamic parameters of an underwater vehicle during small scale, nonuniform, 1-dimensional translation, Archie T. Morrison III and Dana R. Yoerger, pp. 277-282
Determination of undersea vehicle hydrodynamic derivatives using the USAF Datcom, Meyer Nahon, pp. 283-288
Prediction of submersible maneuvering performance at high incidence angles, K. P. Watson, J. S. Webster, J. W. Crane, and N. S. Smith, pp. 289-294
Adaptive filter applications to autonomous underwater vehicle, D. G. Lainiotis, Dinesh Menon, K. N. Plataniotis, and C. J. Charalampous, pp. 295-300
Robotics
Simulation and computer-aided design of spherical parallel manipulators, Clément M. Gosselin, Louis Perreault, and Charles Vaillancourt, pp. 301-306
A reduced order observer for underwater manipulators using potentiometers for position measurements, Mile Erlic and W.-S. Lu, pp. 307-312
Auto-orientation of an acoustically sensitive robotic wrist in a multipath environment, James S. Collins and Charles J. Randell, pp. 313-316
Simplified dynamics and stochastic controller for underwater robots, B. Lévesque and M. J. Richard, pp. 317-320
Stability of an underwater work platform suspended from an unstable reference, Roger V. Bostelman and James S. Albus, pp. 321-325
Seawaves, slicks, and air-sea interaction (SAXON-FPN)
Measurement of two-dimensional wave energy spectra during SAXON-FPN'90, F. Ziemer and W. Rosenthal, pp. 326-331
Short sea wave measurements by a drifting buoy system, Siegfried Stolte, pp. 332-335
Classification of sea slicks by multi-frequency radar techniques: The influence of the temperature and of the morphology effect on water wave damping, H. Hühnerfuss, W. Alpers, A. Gericke, P. A. Lange, R. Theis, and V. Wismann, pp. 336-341
The damping of short gravity-capillary waves by experimental sea slicks measured by an airborne multi-frequency microwave scatterometer, Volkmar Wismann, Reinhard Theis, Werner Alpers, and Heinrich Hühnerfuss, pp. 342-347
Radar signatures of mineral oil spills measured by an airborne multi-frequency multi-polarization microwave scatterometer, V. Wismann, M. Gade, W. Alpers, and H. Hühnerfuss, pp. 348-353
Wind stress measurements during the 1990 North Sea SAXON experiment, G. L. Geernaert and F. A. Hansen, pp. 354-358
The modulation and coherence functions between atmospheric turbulence at the sea surface and the microwave radar cross section, David E. Weissman, William J. Plant, Siegfried Stolte, and John P. Dugan, pp. 359-364
Optical remote sensing
Ocean mass simulator for underwater LIDAR applications, L. Mullen, P. R. Herczfeld, V. M. Contarino, D. Allocca, M. F. Squicciarini, and R. Billmers, pp. 365-368
Cloud masking for coastwatch satellite imagery, E. M. Maturi and W. G. Pichel, pp. 369-374
Reconstruction and enhancement of sea-bed topography by using 2-D signal processing, H. Wong and A. Antoniou, pp. 375-380
Acoustic current measurement
The Symmiktos method: A robust and accurate estimation method for acoustic Doppler current estimation, Thomas Lagö, Per Eriksson, and Mikael Åsman, pp. 381-386
The SW-2000. A new Doppler current profiler, J. L. Christensen, pp. 387-389
Laboratory and field measurements with a broad band ADCP, Gerald F. Appell and Robert G. Williams, pp. 390-393
Evaluation of an ADCP fish-bias rejection algorithm, H. Paul Freitag, Patricia E. Plimpton, and Michael J. McPhaden, pp. 394-397
Flow measurements by acoustic scintillation drift in the fraser river estuary, David D. Lemon, pp. 398-403
Small scale laboratory flow measurements with the ADV-1, Ramon Cabrera and Atle Lohrmann, pp. 404-407
Reconstruction of small-scale flow dynamics by acoustical tomography, Daniel Rouseff, Kraig B. Winters, and Terry E. Ewart, pp. 408-412
Cables
Validation of a real-time cable deployment control system for slack cable laying, J. M. Andres, S. R. Jefferies, and G. Gillenwaters, pp. 413-418
Installation of the fiber optic communications underwater system (FOCUS), Robert Polley and Peter B. Yinger, pp. 419-424
Interactive graphical database for undersea cable design, D. Patil and R. H. Knapp, pp. 425-430
Imaging systems
Combined SeaBeam 2000 bathymetry and sidescan on the Melville: East Pacific Rise 15-19 S, S. P. Miller, K. C. Macdonald, T. Atwater, R. Alexander, M. Cormier, D. Scheirer, C. Weiland, D. Wright, D. W. Forsyth, and Y. Shen, pp. 431-436
Processing and interpretation of 95 kHz backscatter data from shallow-water multibeam sonars, J. E. Hughes Clarke, L. A. Mayer, N. C. Mitchell, A. Godin, and G. Costello, pp. 437-442
Processing techniques for SASS multibeam sidescan imagery, Lawrence J. Fusillo and John H. Satriano, pp. 443-448
Hawaii Mapping Research Group bathymetric and sidescan data processing, Roger Davis, Stan Zisk, Mike Simpson, Margo Edwards, Alexander Shor, and Eric Halter, pp. 449-453
Sonar imagery data processing techniques, Christopher J. Center, pp. 454-457
The Canadian Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel (MCDV) and the integrated survey and inspection system, Adrian Horwitz, Gordon Graham, and Ronald Kuwahara, pp. 458-462
STRIDER - A low cost system for deepwater benthic surveys, D. M. Hintz and M. J. Muirhead, pp. 463-468
Vehicle navigation and positioning
Doppler sonar applied to precision underwater navigation, Kevin V. Jorgensen, Brian L. Grose, and F. Anthony Crandall, pp. 469-474
Determination of horizontal motion through optical flow computations, Chih-Ho Yu and Frank M. Caimi, pp. 475-480
"Inverted" acoustic navigation system also measurers sound speed at towed vehicle, Oyvind Bjorkheim, Larry J. Robinson, Grant Blackinton, and Paul Jubinski, pp. 481-483
Short range position measurement systems for underwater vehicle dynamic positioning, J. P. V. Soares da Cunha, J. L. Scieszko, R. R. Costa, L. Hsu, and A. C. C. Meyer Sant'Anna, pp. 484-489
Test and evaluation of a midwater three dimensional underwater tracking array, W. A. Venezia and J. N. Aycock, pp. 490-493
A better way to navigate on deep sea floors, François P. Parthiot and Jean-François Denis, pp. 494-498
An integrated system for navigation and positioning of an ROV for scientific exploration, J. Illman, H. Milburn, and R. Macdonald, pp. 499-503
Development of a simple navigation system for the Autosub® autonomous underwater vehicle, Stephen McPhail, pp. 504-509
VOLUME 3
Program:Engineering in harmony with the ocean
Sub-Program: Technical program
Synthetic aperture radar
Current RDDP activities in oceanography, Cathryn Bjerkelund and Brian Tittley, pp. 1-6
2D ocean surface SAR images simulation: a statistical approach, R. Garello, S. Proust, and B. Chapron, pp. 7-12
Fitting the compound-Gaussian model to SAR sea images, Ernesto Conte, Maurizio Di Bisceglie, Marco Lops, and Giuseppe Ricci, pp. 13-18
Analysis and interpretation of ERS-1 SAR detected wind rows relative to observed air-sea interaction processes, K. L. Davidson, J. A. Johannessen, R. A. Shuchman, and R. A. Brown, pp. 19-24
Sea ice observed at enhanced resolution by spaceborne scatterometers, D. G. Long and D. Early, pp. 25-30
Contemporaneous field measurements of pack ice stress and ice strain measurements from SAR imagery, Max D. Coon, G. Stuart Knoke, Douglas C. Echert, and Harry L. Stern, pp. 31-36
Information systems
Coastal environmental monitoring using GIS technology, Gail Langran, Jay L. Larson, and Thomas G. Baybrook, pp. 37-42
ODIN: A new ocean data and information network for the St. Lawrence river and the Atlantic Canada region, Bernard Tessier, Denis Hains, Patrick Hally, Charlie T. O'Reilly, and Sylvain de Margerie, pp. 43-48
Marine geographic information systems: Approaches, applications and trends, Rongxing Li and Narendra K. Saxena, pp. 49-54
The continental and oceanographic data information system (CODIS), C. A. Blyth, M. A. Caldwell, T. M. Fyles, and B. D. Smiley, pp. 55-60
Data modeling for distribution of oceanographic databases, J. A. McNitt, pp. 61-65
The signal loss advisor-A knowledge-based command decision aid, R. Adam Pease and James J. Proffitt, pp. 66-69
Issues in matched field processing
Estimation and detection in matched field processing, E. J. Sullivan and D. Middleton, pp. 70-74
Adaptive matched field processing of a large array in a white noise environment, Y. P. Lee, H. Freese, J. Hanna, and P. Mikhalevsky, pp. 75-80
An efficient target tracking algorithm for matched field processing, Michael J. Wilmut, John M. Ozard, and Bryan Woods, pp. 81-85
Speed-up and detection performance of a nearest-neighbors algorithm for matched-field processing with a vertical line array, John M. Ozard, Michael J. Wilmut, Don G. Berryman, and Pierre Zakarauskas, pp. 86-90
A propagating field approach to modal decomposition and source localization, D. J. Thomson and G. R. Ebbeson, pp. 91-96
Holographic array processing using short arrays, Azmi A. Al-Kurd and Robert P. Porter, pp. 97-102
Aspects of systems engineering for a matched-field processor, T. E. Scheuer, B. T. Mackiewich, J. Siegel, E. W. Mitchell, and J. M. Ozard, pp. 103-107
Uncertainty modeling for ocean tomography systems, M. J. D. Rendas, G. Bienvenu, and J. M. F. Moura, pp. 108-111
Signal processing for bio-acoustics
Using neural nets to identify marine mammals, Ian J. Booth and Kathleen H. V. Booth, pp. 112-115
Handling time variability in bioacoustic transient detection, David K. Mellinger, pp. 116-121
A method for filtering bioacoustic transients by spectrogram image convolution, David K. Mellinger and Christopher W. Clark, pp. 122-127
Measurements of sound scattering as a means of examining ecological interactions between marine organisms and their environment, M. C. Macaulay, pp. 128-130
Current measurement
A free-drifting measurement of mid-water mixing by an acoustic current meter array in NATRE, Albert J. Williams III, pp. 131-136
Velocity, concentration and flux of sediments in a coastal bottom boundary layer with a laser Doppler velocimeter, Y. Agrawal, J. H. Trowbridge, H. Pottsmith, and J. Oltman-Shay, pp. 137-142
Calibration of the BASS acoustic current meter with carrageenan agar, Archie T. Morrison III, Albert J. Williams III, and Marinna Martini, pp. 143-148
Observation of deep sea current and change of bottom shapes in the Suruga Trough, Kyohiko Mitsuzawa, Hiroyasu Momma, Masao Fukasawa, and Hiroshi Hotta, pp. 149-154
Ocean current measurements from submarine set and drift, Peter J. Hendricks, pp. 155-158
Historical shoreline recoveries of drifting objects: an aid for future shoreline utilization, Curtis C. Ebbesmeyer and Carol A. Coomes, pp. 159-164
Underwater optics
NEARSCAT: A full spectrum narrow forward angle transmissometer-nephelometer, J. L. Forand, G. R. Fournier, D. Bonnier, G. Pelletier, and P. Pace, pp. 165-170
Temporal coherence loss due to dynamic scattering of laser light, N. L. Swanson and D. H. VanWinkle, pp. 171-175
Measurement of spectral broadening of scattered laser signal propagating through ocean waters, K. Arora and Nick A. Mitchell, pp. 176-180
Validation of the underwater synchronous scanner imaging model, M. G. Gibby, J. H. Fahs, and M. B. Stine, pp. 181-186
LUCIE: A laser underwater camera image enhancer, J. L. Forand, G. R. Fournier, D. Bonnier, and P. Pace, pp. 187-190
Underwater cableless data transmission, J. P. von der Weid, J. A. P. da Silva, and A. C. Sant'Anna, pp. 191-193
Bottom imaging & classification
ESMAC, a nordic research programme for environmental mapping and characterization of the seafloor, J. H. Kristensen and F. Pøhner, pp. 194-201
ISAH-S bottom classification-Preliminary results, B. Prager, R. Inkster, P. Lacroix, and L. Mayer, pp. 202-207
Textural analysis and structure-Tracking for geological mapping: applications to sonar images from Endeavour Segment, Juan de Fuca Ridge, Ph. Blondel, J. C. Sempéré, and V. Robigou, pp. 208-213
Real-time acoustic bottom classification for hydrography a field evaluation of RoxAnn, G. E. O. Schlagintweit, pp. 214-219
Estimating geomorphology and setting the scale partition with a composite-roughness scattering model, Jerald W. Caruthers and Jorge C. Novarini, pp. 220-223
Comparison of multilayer perceptrons and maximum likelihood processors in the context of seafloor parameter estimation, Z. H. Michalopoulou and D. Alexandrou, pp. 224-228
Seabed classification from multibeam echosounder data using statistical methods, Ragnar Bang Huseby, Otto Milvang, Anne Schistad Solberg, and Katrine Weisteen Bjerde, pp. 229-233
Vehicle control & telemetry systems
Design and applications of a versatile multiplexed telemetry and power system for coax cables, Tim McGinnis, pp. 234-235
ROV and remote data gathering control, communications, and power supply over a single inexpensive coaxial cable using a low power multiplex system, A. P. Shefter, pp. 236-241
The integration of a high performance fiber optic telemetry system in an ROV, Vincent J. Forst and Alain T. Pellen, pp. 242-247
A command, control and communications interface for an environmental sampling ROV, D. J. MacQuarrie, L. R. Cosby, C. Edley, and W. A. Gallant, pp. 248-252
JasonTalk: A standard ROV vehicle control system, David A. Mindell, Dana R. Yoerger, Lee E. Freitag, Louis L. Whitcomb, and Robert L. Eastwood, pp. 253-258
Research on an oscillating fin propulsion control system, Ikuo Yamamoto, Yuuzi Terada, Tetuo Nagamatu, and Yoshiteru Imaizumi, pp. 259-263
Distributed data and computing system on an ROV designed for ocean science, Mark R. Chaffey, Andrew Pearce, and Robert Herlien, pp. 264-268
Acoustic noise
Statistical properties of horizontal, vertical and omnidirectional underwater noise fields at low frequency, M. J. Wilmut, N. R. Chapman, and S. Anderson, pp. 269-273
Broadband measurements of acoustic noise under a deteriorating fast ice cover, J. R. Marko and D. D. Lemon, pp. 274-279
Computing ship resolution gain for horizontal towed arrays in realistic ocean environments, D. W. Craig, pp. 280-284
On non-Gaussian characterization of shipping traffic underwater noise, F. Grassia, G. Tacconi, A. Tiano, and F. Borghini, pp. 285-292
Synthetic aperture radar and modulation transfer functions (SAXON-FPN)
Slope and hydrodynamic modulation of radar scatter from the sea, V. Hesany, R. K. Moore, and S. Haimov, pp. 293-297
Tower based measurements of the ocean wave radar modulation transfer function with a three-frequency scatterometer, Anke Schmidt, Volkmar Wismann, Roland Romeiser, and Werner Alpers, pp. 298-303
Simulations of SAR imagery of the ocean compared with data, Lisa M. Zurk and William J. Plant, pp. 304-309
Ocean wave-radar modulation transfer functions inferred from airborne synthetic aperture radar imagery, R. Schmidt, C. Brüning, and W. Alpers, pp. 310-315
Estimation of synthetic aperture radar modulation transfer function parameters with spotlight mode data, Christopher Wackerman, pp. 316-321
Real time evaluation of the phase velocity of the ocean dominant wave using a coherent radar system, João Moreira and Werner Alpers, pp. 322-327
Radar signatures of the sea bed in coastal waters, Ingo Hennings, Siegfried Stolte, and Friedwart Ziemer, pp. 328-333
Display systems
SOTS: A Sun-based system for oceanographic analysis, Mary Sue Moustafa, Gerald Hebenstreit, and Michael D. Mandelberg, pp. 334-339
The TAO workstation display software for real-time data from the TOGA-TAO array of moored buoys, Nancy N. Soreide, Dai C. McClurg, Willa H. Zhu, Donald W. Denbo, and Michael J. McPhaden, pp. 340-343
WeatherLink-a networking tool for dynamic data, R. E. McClain, pp. 344-346
Underwater acoustics real-time data acquisition and analysis at the Defence Research Establishment Atlantic, Joseph B. Farrell, pp. 347-352
Visualization of 3-dimensional beam patterns using the SGI workstation, E. S. Holmes and S. Chang, pp. 353-358
A PC based coherent sonar workstation for experimental underwater acoustics, Paul Kraeutner and John Bird, pp. 359-364
Applications of matched field processing
Matched field tomographic inversion, A. Tolstoy, pp. 365-368
Sound-velocity estimation: A system theoretic approach, J. V. Candy and E. J. Sullivan, pp. 369-374
Ambiguity surface manifestation of downslope converted noise sources, Jean-Marie Q. D. Tran and W. S. Hodgkiss, pp. 375-380
Inversion of geoacoustic profiles in thin-sediment environments from ocean bottom reflection loss data, David E. Hannay and N. Ross Chapman, pp. 381-386
Robust adaptive matched-field-processing, Y. P. Lee, P. Mikhalevky, H. Freese, and J. Hanna, pp. 387-392
Transducers & arrays, active
Design and testing of a three-dimensional acoustical imaging system, Duncan McGehee and Jules S. Jaffe, pp. 393-397
A multibeam, diver-held sonar using a liquid-filled, spherical acoustic lens, Edward O. Belcher, pp. 398-402
The development of an in-line hydrophone for a sea-bottom array with a unique 0-3 composite sensor element, Mark L. Pecoraro and George D. Hugus, pp. 403-408
Acoustic transmitting/receiving elliptic ring arrays, Lixue Wu, Adam Zielinski, and John S. Bird, pp. 409-414
Sonar calibrations at the Institute of Ocean Sciences, James L. Galloway, pp. 415-419
Acoustic communications
Underwater acoustic communications, R. Coates, pp. 420-425
Reduced-complexity simultaneous beamforming and equalization for underwater acoustic communications, Milica Stojanovic, Josko A. Catipovic, and John G. Proakis, pp. 426-431
High rate shallow water acoustic communication, A. Zielinski, R. Coates, L. Wang, and A. Saleh, pp. 432-437
Imaging methods
Algorithm for sonar-based signal identification, M. Fernández, A. Aridgides, and J. Bourdelais, pp. 438-443
3-D acoustic imaging with a thin lens, Bruce Johnson, Debra Scroggins, Behzad Kamgar-Parsi, Donald Folds, and Edward Belcher, pp. 444-449
Full inverse scattering vs. Born-like approximation for imaging in a stratified ocean, James W. Wiskin, Steven A. Johnson, David T. Borup, Michael Berggren, and Rick Eidens, pp. 450-455
Segmentation of seafloor sidescan imagery using Markov random fields and neural networks, M. Jiang, W. K. Stewart, and M. Marra, pp. 456-461
An interactive swath mosaic editor in a visual programming environment, John Williams, Diane Hills, and Donna Okazaki, pp. 462-467
Applications of ROVs and towed vehicles
The development of a hybrid advanced composite-syntactic foam structural component for use in undersea vehicles, John B. Hinves and Craig D. Douglas, pp. 468-472
"Hatsushima"-Real time long-term deep sea floor observatory, Hiroyasu Momma, Kyohiko Mitsuzawa, Yuka Kaiho, and Hiroshi Hotta, pp. 473-477
Deep towed sidescan sonars, Arthur St. C. Wright, pp. 478-483
Experiments in dynamic positioning of a towed pipe, Franz S. Hover, pp. 484-490
Effect of cable and towbody parameters on tension and cable length when towing at 200 m depths and 10 knots, Sonia Latchman, pp. 491-496
Development of a towed vehicle for physical and chemical measurement in the ocean upper mixed layer, Wataru Koterayama and Taketo Akamatsu, pp. 497-502