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REMOTE SENSING
Volume 12, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs12081344
Keywords
autonomous underwater vehicle; unmanned surface vessel; multibeam echosounder; interferometric sonar; mapping resolution; measurement accuracy; GEBCO-Nippon Foundation Alumni Team; Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE; bathymetry; HISAS 1032; EM 2040; EM 304; HUGIN; SEA-KIT
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- Nippon Foundation
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The methods of data collection, processing, and assessment of the quality of the results of a survey conducted at the Southern Ionian Sea off the Messinian Peninsula, Greece are presented. Data were collected by the GEBCO-Nippon Foundation Alumni Team, competing in the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, during the Final Round of the competition. Data acquisition was conducted by the means of unmanned vehicles only. The mapping system was composed of a single deep water AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle), equipped with a high-resolution synthetic aperture sonar HISAS 1032 and multibeam echosounder EM 2040, partnered with a USV (Unmanned Surface Vessel). The USV provided positioning data as well as mapping the seafloor from the surface, using a hull-mounted multibeam echosounder EM 304. Bathymetry and imagery data were collected for 24 h and then processed for 48 h, with the extensive use of cloud technology and automatic data processing. Finally, all datasets were combined to generate a 5-m resolution bathymetric surface, as an example of the deep-water mapping capabilities of the unmanned vehicles' cooperation and their sensors' integration.
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