DURIP: Side Scan Sonar and Inertial Navigation System for AUV-Based Ocean Bottom/Sub-Bottom Mapping for Object Search/Identification.

摘要

The long-term goals of this project are to fully equip our Bluefin 21 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with acoustic imaging and navigation systems to permit very wide band, high resolution, repeat mapping studies of the ocean bottom and sub-bottom. These types of basic science studies have direct application to mine countermeasures, detection of bottom scour patterns for ASW missions, studies of the nature and evolution with time of fine-scale structures on the ocean bottom, general seafloor surveys for bottom deployments, seafloor geohazards, and vehicle precision navigation.