Accession Number:

ADD002039

Title:

Seafloor Mapping System.

Descriptive Note:

Patent Application,

Corporate Author:

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON D C

Personal Author(s):

• Hitchcock,Robert O.

Report Date:

1975-05-30

Pagination or Media Count:

19.0

Abstract:

The patent application relates generally to seafloor mapping systems and more particularly to such systems generating a stereo-film of the seafloor topography. The sea floor mapping system uses echo signals from a pair of towed, side-looking sonar transducers to generate in real time a roll of photographic film which after conventional processing can be directly viewed in a stereoscope to produce a three-dimensional illusion of seafloor topography.

Descriptors:

• *Ocean bottom topography
• *Mapping
• Patents
• Stereomapping
• Sonar echoes
• Electron beams
• Real time

Subject Categories:

• Cartography and Aerial Photography
• Physical and Dynamic Oceanography

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE