多波束与侧扫声纳海底目标探测的比较分析

侧扫声纳是目前常用的海底目标(如沉船、水雷、管线等)探测工具,在测深领域,多波束以全覆盖和高效率证明了它的优越性。由于多波束具有很高的分辨率,目前在工程上已经开始应用多波束进行海底目标物的探测。对多波束和侧扫声纳进行了比较分析,并着重探讨了影响多波束分辨率的各种因素。结果表明:多波束的最大优点在于定位精度高,但其适用范围不如侧扫声纳广泛,尤其受到水深和波束角的限制,多波束和侧扫声纳在探测海底目标时具有很好的互补性,同时应用可以提高目标解译的准确性。     

大深度近海底精细地形地貌探测技术

船载低频多波束测深声纳、侧扫声纳可以对深海海底地形地貌进行快速、高效、大面积探测,但其测量精度有限,难以满足深海科学考察、资源勘探开发对高精度海底地形地貌的需求。随着各类大深度水下移动载体(如深海拖体、水下机器人、遥控潜器和载人潜水器)的涌现,特别是各类耐高压测绘声纳的商业化,使大深度近海底精细地形地貌探测成为可能。首先分析了多波束测深声纳、侧扫声纳和测深侧扫声纳等3种测绘声纳的基本原理,然后分别介绍了各类测绘声纳的国内外典型商业化产品,并通过典型实例分析了其在大深度近海底精细测绘中的应用情况。     

侧扫声纳和浅地层剖面仪在海管断裂点定位中的应用

结合侧扫声纳和浅地层剖面仪能够探测出海底管道附近异常,路由区浅层地质灾害以及海底管道位置等特点,通过实例探讨了侧扫声纳和浅地层剖面仪在海底管道断裂位置定位中的应用。船锚、浅层气等外力作用,导致海底油气管道断裂,使用侧扫声纳和浅地层剖面仪探测的方法,综合分析海水中的气体屏蔽现象、海底面的地貌异常特征、海底管道的平面位置及埋深变化、地层剖面的反射空白等异常特征,快速准确定位海底油气管道断裂位置。     

多波束和侧扫声纳系统在海底目标探测中的应用

介绍了多波束测深系统和侧扫声纳系统的工作原理,通过实例说明了多波束测深系统和侧扫声纳系统在海底目标探测的工作流程,总结出两种探测系统在探测海底目标上的优缺点,说明了多种探测手段的综合应用是海底目标探测技术的发展方向。     

侧扫声纳图像增强技术

随着海洋探测技术的飞速发展,侧扫声纳的图像质量和定位精度迅速提高,其应用日益广泛和深入。在声纳图像判读分析时,常常需要进行辐射改正和均衡增强。根据海底地貌声纳图像的特点,归纳了几种有效、适用的图像增强方法,并建立了声纳图像分析软件。     

侧扫声纳系统在海底障碍物扫测中的应用

针对海道测量中侧扫声纳位置精度低的问题,利用GPS定位数据、单波束水深数据和侧扫数据,研究侧扫声纳扫海测量中海底障碍物信息精化问题。海上试验数据表明：文中提出的多源水声测量信息联合扫测海底障碍物的方法,可改善单一侧扫系统目标探测的精度,对海底目标物扫测具有较好的适用性。     

海底三维可视化技术及应用

海底地形地貌能表现海洋世界重要的空间信息,也是常规光学和电磁手段难以探测的水下区域。应用侧扫声纳技术可以反演海底地貌,同时多波束测深技术得到的水深数据重建数字水深模型,二者结合创建三维海底空间景观。利用海洋探测技术和三维可视化技术进行海底地形地貌三维仿真和分析,并对其应用进行探讨。     

侧扫声纳和多波束测深系统在海洋调查中的综合应用

介绍了利用多波束进行全覆盖水深测量和利用侧扫声纳进行海底、水体目标的探测技术。综合利用多波束水深数据和侧扫声纳声图，可有效增强不同观测数据的互补性和提高工程质量。     

侧扫声纳在水下坡脚线位置探测中的精度分析

根据国家海洋局印发的《海籍调查规范》,填海工程用海范围算至填海边坡水下坡脚线。在填海工程竣工验收中,水下坡脚线主要使用侧扫声纳获取。通过对侧扫声纳探测水下坡脚线位置的误差来源进行分析,提出了一系列提高侧扫声纳水下坡脚线位置探测精度的措施,并将其应用到实际工作中,对侧扫声纳水下坡脚线位置探测精度进行了验证。结果表明,侧扫声纳在填海工程水下坡脚线探测中的位置精度满足《海籍调查规范》中水下坡脚线平面位置精度要求。     

侧扫声纳技术在水下界址线测量中的应用

目前,沿海经济的强势发展导致用地矛盾不断凸显,各地不断提出向海要地的要求。为防止擅自扩大围填海范围的现象,水下界址线的精确测量成为其基础工作。侧扫声纳技术作为海底地形地貌的重要探测手段,本身精度满足水下界址线测量要求,同时可以提高探测效率。以广西防城港核电建设中填海界址和面积动态监测项目为例,论证了侧扫声纳系统在水下界址线测量中的可行性。同时指出,精确定位是进行围填海界址调查的关键技术。     

Seafloor acoustic remote sensing with multibeam echo-sounders and bathymetric sidescan sonar systems

This paper examines the potential for remote classification of seafloor terrains using a combination of quantitative acoustic backscatter measurements and high resolution bathymetry derived from two classes of sonar systems currently used by the marine research community: multibeam echo-sounders and bathymetric sidescans sonar systems. The high-resolution bathymetry is important, not only to determine the topography of the area surveyed, but to provide accurate bottom slope corrections needed to convert the arrival angles of the seafloor echoes received by the sonars into true angles of incidence. An angular dependence of seafloor acoustic backscatter can then be derived for each region surveyed, making it possible to construct maps of acoustic backscattering strength in geographic coordinates over the areas of interest. Such maps, when combined with the high-resolution bathymetric maps normally compiled from the data output by the above sonar systems, could be very effective tools to quantify bottom types on a regional basis, and to develop automatic seafloor classification routines.     

Self-monitoring sonar transducer array with internal accelerometers

To achieve the maximum detection range for active sonars, it is desirable to maximize their acoustic power. In attempting to do so, there are two limitations which are caused by cavitation on the face of the transducer and an interaction effect between transducer elements of the array. To avoid these limitations, a method is proposed for driving the array elements in phase with a uniform velocity to yield the desired radiation. For this purpose, a sonar transducer array which has internal accelerometers for monitoring the motion of the transducer element is being developed. This paper presents an outline of this sonar array and a method of high-speed numerical calculation which was developed for the prediction of the radiation characteristics of the array using the fractional Fourier transform algorithm     

海底管道检测与三维点云重建算法

随着海底油气管道的铺设规模越来越大,为防止管道油气泄漏而导致人员伤亡和财产损失,海底管道的日常巡检尤为重要。提出一种基于多波束点云的海底管道检测与三维重建算法,利用高频多波束声纳对水下管道进行成像,对声纳图像采用经典边缘检测算法检测管道边缘,得到相应的点云数据,将点云数据拼接成一组完整的空间点云集合,对点云集合进行三维重建。通过水池试验结果证明,提出的算法流程能够有效地实现水下管道的检测与三维重建,具有较好的工程应用前景。     

海底管线保护电位遥测系统中PPM-PTC水声传输方式的设计

本文设计了PPM-PTC(脉位调制-脉冲周期编码)信息水声编码方式并将其运用于海底管线保护电位水声遥测系统中;介绍了PPM-PTC编码器的编码实现方法和工作原理;根据水声信道特性和保护电位遥测仪的特殊要求,设计和确定了主要传输参数,使仪器实现对水下管线腐蚀与保护电位的实时,可靠的测量。     

Synthetic aperture sonar for seabed imaging: relative merits ofnarrow-band and wide-band approached

The advantages of using wideband sonar systems in underwater acoustical imaging by means of synthetic aperture (side-looking) sonars are described and illustrated through simulation examples. The simulations are conducted for two cases of sonar platform motion: perfect trajectory and disturbed trajectory. Several schemes used for wideband synthetic aperture processing are investigated and their relative merits (resolution and complexity) in the case of both disturbed and perfect trajectories are evaluated. Quantitative image evaluation is initially achieved through the evaluation of performance as regards resolution. The problems involved in the definition of the image quality are discussed     

Guest Editorial Special Issue on Synthetic Aperture Sonar

The eight papers in this special issue focus on synthetic aperture sonar. The focus is on signal processing and performance characterization for synthetic aperture imaging sonars, with emphasis on systems that operate in stripmap mode--a monostatic approach utilizing broadside beams, and which represents the majority of designs currently seeing practical application.     

东方1-1海管悬跨分布特征及治理效果分析

海底管道对海上油气田安全生产有着非常重要的作用,对东方1-1海管进行了连续6年的无人有缆遥控水下机器人(remote operatedvehicle,ROV)调查,根据调查数据,分析了海管悬跨的分布特征以及变化情况,按海管悬跨严重程度进行了风险等级分区。结果表明在受水动力影响最大的深水平坦区海管悬跨分布密集,并有逐年加剧趋势,安全风险较大。并对悬跨形成机理和极限悬跨长度进行了分析和阐述。介绍了沙袋支撑和局部抛石填埋悬跨治理方法的原理和优缺点,对比分析了治理效果情况,认为局部抛石治理方法效果优于沙袋治理。     

Remote estimation of surficial seafloor properties through the application Angular Range Analysis to multibeam sonar data

The variation of the backscatter strength with the angle of incidence is an intrinsic property of the seafloor, which can be used in methods for acoustic seafloor characterization. Although multibeam sonars acquire backscatter over a wide range of incidence angles, the angular information is normally neglected during standard backscatter processing and mosaicking. An approach called Angular Range Analysis has been developed to preserve the backscatter angular information, and use it for remote estimation of seafloor properties. Angular Range Analysis starts with the beam-by-beam time-series of acoustic backscatter provided by the multibeam sonar and then corrects the backscatter for seafloor slope, beam pattern, time varying and angle varying gains, and area of insonification. Subsequently a series of parameters are calculated from the stacking of consecutive time series over a spatial scale that approximates half of the swath width. Based on these calculated parameters and the inversion of an acoustic backscatter model, we estimate the acoustic impedance and the roughness of the insonified area on the seafloor. In the process of this inversion, the behavior of the model parameters is constrained by established inter-property relationships. The approach has been tested using a 300 kHz Simrad EM3000 multibeam sonar in Little Bay, NH. Impedance estimates are compared to in situ measurements of sound speed. The comparison shows a very good correlation, indicating the potential of this approach for robust seafloor characterization.     

Shallow-water imaging multibeam sonars: A new tool for investigating seafloor processes in the coastal zone and on the continental shelf

Hydrographic quality bathymetry and quantitative acoustic backscatter data are now being acquired in shallow water on a routine basis using high frequency multibeam sonars. The data provided by these systems produce hitherto unobtainable information about geomorphology and seafloor geologic processes in the coastal zone and on the continental shelf.Before one can use the multibeam data for hydrography or quantitative acoustic backscatter studies, however, it is essential to be able to correct for systematic errors in the data. For bathymetric data, artifacts common to deep-water systems (roll, refraction, positioning) need to be corrected. In addition, the potentially far greater effects of tides, heave, vessel lift/squat, antenna motion and internal time delays become of increasing importance in shallower water. Such artifacts now cause greater errors in hydrographic data quality than bottom detection. Many of these artifacts are a result of imperfect motion sensing, however, new methods such as differential GPS hold great potential for resolving such limitations. For backscatter data, while the system response is well characterised, significant post processing is required to remove residual effects of imaging geometry, gain adjustments and water column effects. With the removal of these system artifacts and the establishment of a calibrated test site in intertidal regions (where the seabed may be intimately examined by eye) one can build up a sediment classification scheme for routine regional seafloor identification.When properly processed, high frequency multibeam sonar data can provide a view of seafloor geology and geomorphology at resolutions of as little as a few decimetres. Specific applications include quantitative estimation of sediment transport rates in large-scale sediment waves, volume effects of iceberg scouring, extent and style of seafloor mass-wasting and delineation of structural trends in bedrock. In addition, the imagery potentially provides a means of quantitative classification of seafloor lithology, allowing sedimentologists the ability to examine spatial distributions of seabed sediment type without resorting to subjective estimation or prohibitively expensive bottom-sampling programs. Using Simrad EM100 and EM1000 sonars as an example, this paper illustrates the nature and scale of possible artifacts, the necessary post-processing steps and shows specific applications of these sonars.