Shallow water height mapping with interferometric synthetic aperture sonar

Author

Silva, S.R. ; Cunha, Sérgio ; Matos, Aníbal ; Cruz, Nuno

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Porto Univ., Porto, Portugal

fYear

2008

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

Height mapping of shallow water areas is an important task for many commercial and scientific applications like river navigability, infrastructure maintenance or natural resource monitoring. The use of an autonomous boat presents several advantages that ease the use of synthetic aperture images to create three-dimensional topographic maps through interferometric techniques. Sample data obtained during test trials illustrate how synthetic aperture can be used to generate imagery and bathymetry data.

Keywords

bathymetry; oceanography; radar interferometry; remote sensing by radar; sea level; seafloor phenomena; sonar; synthetic aperture radar; 3D topographic map; autonomous boat; bathymetry; infrastructure maintenance; interferometric synthetic aperture sonar; natural resource monitoring; shallow water height mapping; synthetic aperture image; Boats; Costs; Estimation error; Interferometry; Rivers; Sonar navigation; Surfaces; Surveillance; Synthetic aperture sonar; Transducers; Height mapping; autonomous boat; interferometry; sonar; synthetic aperture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS 2008

Conference_Location

Quebec City, QC

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2619-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2620-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.2008.5151972

Filename

5151972