|
|
| Bourguignon, Sebastien; Berger, Laurent; Scalabrin, Carla; Fablet, Ronan; Mazauric, Valerie. |
| Multibeam echosounders and sonars are increasingly used in fisheries acoustics for abundance estimation. Because of reduced side-lobe levels in the beam-array pattern, the new Simrad ME70 multibeam echosounder installed on board Ifremer's RV "Thalassa" has been designed to allow improved detection of fish close to the seabed. To achieve this objective, precise and unambiguous detection of the water-bottom interface is required, which raises the issue of bottom detection, especially in the outer beams. The bottom-detection method implemented in the ME70 is based on the amplitude of the reverberated echo. Such an approach is efficient for vertical beams, but less accurate for beams with higher incidence angles, typically 30°40° for the beam configurations... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Multibeam echosounder; Fisheries; Bottom detection; Acoustics. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2009/publication-6629.pdf |
| |
