A Shallow-Water Swath Bathymetry System

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Our long-term goal is to determine and understand the processes which create and modify the sea bed in the coastal zone through use of swath-mapping techniques for bathymetry and backscatter optimized for shallow-water use. Swath-mapping techniques have proven extremely valuable to the study of sea-floor morphology on continental shelves, slopes and margins, mid-ocean ridges and in the deep ocean, but systems designed for continental shelf and deeper-water environments are not optimized for the shallow-water of coastal settings. Swath-mapping systems optimum for shallow water have recently become available however, no shallow-water systems have existed in the U.S. academic community for use in research programs. Our objective is to fill this critical gap by obtaining, installing, and demonstrating the data quality of a shallow-water swath bathymetry system that can be moved between vessels as required. This kind of high-resolution morphological data will contribute to ONR programs in the coastal zone such as STRATAFORM.

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