EVOLUTION OF SONAR SURVEY SYSTEMS FOR SEA FLOOR STUDIES.
Journal Title: Engineering and Technology Journal - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 6
Abstract
Approximately 71% of our planet is covered with oceans. It is also known that oceans are the last frontiers for the mankind’s survival and therefore it becomes pertinent that they are studied in great details. It has been found that the exploration of the oceans can be done more precisely using acoustics as one of the methods, as the acoustic waves can propagate over large distances and also using a broad spectrum of frequencies various issues of the ocean studies can be addressed more effectively than many of the other methods, both in terms resolution (using high frequency components) of measuring parameters and over large ranges (using low to very low frequency components). Currently with the technological advancement and improved computing algorithms, we have state of art systems for ocean exploration, which can provide information about the sea floor, sub-surface including ocean floor classification. These could be projected in 2-D and 3-D visualization to a great accuracy. Also available are acoustical methods wherein one can obtain an extremely important information about water column properties (both in terms of bio-information and physical properties), and has great importance as this water column is the medium for transmission of all kind of energies(acoustic for short, medium and long ranges and some time light source for exploration over a very short distance) that are used for exploration on the oceans. It will therefore be interesting to understand the progress of underwater acoustics from its very primitive stage, where acoustic transmission through water medium was used for first time to the present day highly complex but very advanced acoustic sea-floor surveying systems. It will also be interesting to know, with a very old maritime history of using seas for transportation, as to what were the methods used by early time seafarers to understand depths of the oceans they were sailing. It has taken almost a century in developing an acoustic system to arrive at the present day advancement. An attempt has been made to present a perspective of evolution and advancement in underwater acoustics and related electronic, material and computational advancement, starting from the early attempts to the modern day acoustic equipments
Authors and Affiliations
Milind Naik, Govind Ranade, R. B. Lohani,
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