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| Malik, Mashkoor; Lurton, Xavier; Mayer, Larry. |
| Multibeam echosounders (MBES) have become a widely used acoustic remote sensing tool to map and study the seafloor, providing co-located bathymetry and seafloor backscatter. Although the uncertainty associated with MBES-derived bathymetric data has been studied extensively, the question of backscatter uncertainty has been addressed only minimally and hinders the quantitative use of MBES seafloor backscatter. This paper explores approaches to identifying uncertainty sources associated with MBES-derived backscatter measurements. The major sources of uncertainty are catalogued and the magnitudes of their relative contributions to the backscatter uncertainty budget are evaluated. These major uncertainty sources include seafloor insonified area (1–3 dB),... |
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Palavras-chave: Multibeam echosounder; Calibration; Incidence angle. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00429/54018/57435.pdf |
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| Malik, Mashkoor; Schimel, Alexandre C. G.; Masetti, Giuseppe; Roche, Marc; Le Deunf, Julian; Dolan, Margaret F.j.; Beaudoin, Jonathan; Augustin, Jean-marie; Hamilton, Travis; Parnum, Iain. |
| Seafloor backscatter mosaics are now routinely produced from multibeam echosounder data and used in a wide range of marine applications. However, large differences (>5 dB) can often be observed between the mosaics produced by different software packages processing the same dataset. Without transparency of the processing pipeline and the lack of consistency between software packages raises concerns about the validity of the final results. To recognize the source(s) of inconsistency between software, it is necessary to understand at which stage(s) of the data processing chain the differences become substantial. To this end, willing commercial and academic software developers were invited to generate intermediate processed backscatter results from a common... |
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Palavras-chave: Acoustic backscatter processing; Multibeam Echo Sounders; Seafloor mapping. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00599/71133/69448.pdf |
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