MUSIC算法在国产多波束测深仪中的应用研究

针对现有以常规波束形成技术为基础的多波束测深算法中存在空间分辨率不足的问题,将子空间类高分辨算法MUSIC应用到国产多波束测深系统中,探索提高多波束系统空间分辨力的方法。对MUSIC算法原理进行了数学表达式推导和性能分析,并通过计算机仿真、湖上试验数据处理验证了本算法能降低回波到达角度的估计误差,有效地提高了空间方位估计精度,具有实际应用的可行性。     

传统多波束系统与具有相干特点的多波束系统的研究

传统多波束系统和具有相干特点的多波束系统(以下简称相干多波束系统)在波束的形成原理上分别运用了束控法和相干法两种不同的方法。相干法在波束的形成原理上已经没有了传统的“波束”的概念,它在获取数据量上的绝对优势使相干多波束系统在数据密度、准确度以及分辨率上较之传统多波束系统都有较大的提高。这些特性使得相干多波束系统在测深方面尤其是浅水测深上将发挥越来越大的作用。     

多波束探测分辨率估计模型研究

多波束探测分辨率是衡量多波束探测能力的重要指标,针对如何确定多波束探测分辨率这一问题,通过原理分析,阐述了多波束探测分辨率的含义,在几何空间上推导了纵向、横向和垂向分辨率估计模型,提出了多波束目标探测分辨率模型,并以Reson 8101多波束测深仪为例进行了计算。计算结果表明,该模型能较直接地估计多波束探测分辨率,可作为多波束测量技术设计的重要依据,同时发现多波束探测横向分辨率是多波束目标探测分辨率的主要决定因素。     

一种用于深水多波束测深系统的改进MVDR成像算法

近年来多波束水体数据的研究开始受到重视。受波束宽度与旁瓣的影响,利用常规波束形成方法水下成像效果欠佳。高分辨率波束形成方法虽然效果良好,但在实际应用中面临计算量巨大的缺陷。为此,基于深水多波束声纳分扇区发射的特点对MVDR算法进行了改进。改进方法采用常规波束形成与MVDR波束形成相结合的方式,降低了对MVDR中的滤波器长度的要求,因而大大减少了计算量。实验结果显示,改进方法与MVDR算法成像效果相当。该方法在多波束声纳分扇区发射的条件下,具有明显的计算优势。     

强干扰背景下水中微弱信号的垂直阵波束形成研究

针对垂直阵在强干扰背景下采用常规波束形成方法难以估计目标俯仰角的问题,研究了超波束与逆波束形成等方法在垂直阵中的应用。讨论了超波束与逆波束形成原理,仿真分析了其波束图,表明分辨率比常规波束形成有明显提高。实测数据分析表明：超波束方法可以分辨目标与干扰的俯仰角轨迹,对角加载逆波束 MVDR 方法可以获得目标的俯仰角轨迹。研究结果解决了强干扰背景下微弱目标信号俯仰角难以估计的问题,为微弱目标定位提供了新的途径。     

近场MVDR聚焦波束扫描声图定位方法研究

声图测量技术是一种适用于近场的高精度被动定位技术,可以用来测量舰船辐射噪声源位置的空间分布。声图测量的核心算法是聚焦波束形成。算法的分辨力与阵长、信号处理频段以及目标距离有关。当阵长一定、测量区范围给定时,算法对低频声源的分辨力较差。MVDR波束形成法可较常规波束形成获得更高的分辨力,降低旁瓣。采用MVDR与聚焦波束形成相结合的方法可提高对舰船各部位辐射噪声源的分辨力。     

浅水多波束系统及其最新技术发展

针对目前国际上8家公司生产的16种新型浅水多波束系统的技术指标,对它们的技术性能,包括采用的波束形成方法、频率范围、测深量程、深度分辨率、最大测幅、单位时间（s）内的采样次数、波束宽度、侧扫功能、测深精度、测量航速、声线弯曲改正、姿态传感器及设备寿命等给予了评价,并展望了浅水多波束技术的发展前景.     

高分辨率波束形成器在多波束测深系统中的应用

对于海底地形测量,基于FT波束形成的幅度检测法空间分辨率较低,只能较准确给出有限测点的水深信息;平坦海底前提下,分裂子阵检测法或多子阵检测法可以得到连续测点的水深信息,复杂海底地形条件下,这两种方法均难以应用。能否利用高分辨率波束形成器来提高测深系统的空间分辨率是一个值得研究的问题。使用ESPRIT波束形成器处理了多波束测深系统的试验数据,并就其性能与FT波束形成器进行了比较与分析。     

多波束测深仪有效扇面宽度估计方法

根据多波束测深仪的声纳方程,提出多波束测深仪有效扇面宽度概算方法。通过多波束测深仪声学设计原理估计多波束测深仪的声学参数。分别对各波束的目标强度和声源级进行估算,给出了不同工作深度和工作脉宽情况下的各波束声源级分布,通过检索各波束的声源级确定多波束测深仪的有效扇面宽度,并对测船的选择提出建议。     

SeaBat 9001S多波束系统及其应用

与传统的单波束回声测深仪相比，多波束测深系统采用条带测量方式，可对水底进行全覆盖无遗漏扫测，在测量自动化、效率和精度方面都具有极大的优点。本文介绍了SeaBat9001S浅水型多波束及前视声纳系统在长江某水下抛石护底工程监理中的应用。     

Microbial Biomass and Organic Nutrients in the Deep-Sea Sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin

In order to assess the impact of deep-sea mining on the in situ benthic life, we measured the microbial standing stock and concentration of organic nutrients in the deep-sea sediments of the Central Indian Ocean Basin in the Indian pioneer area. Sediments were collected using box core and grab samples during September 1996. The total bacterial numbers ranged from 10 10 -10 11 cells per g -1 dry weight sediment. There was a marginal decrease in the number of bacteria from surface to 30 cm depth, though the subsurface section registered a higher number than did the surface. The highest numbers were encountered at depths of 4-8 cm. The retrievable number of bacteria were two orders less in comparison with the direct total counts of bacteria. An almost homogeneous distribution of bacteria, total organic carbon, living biomass, and lipids throughout the depth of cores indicates active microbial and benthic processes in the deep sea sediments. On the other hand, a uniform distribution of total counts of bacteria, carbohydrates, and total organic carbon in all the cores indicates their stable nature and suggests that they can serve as useful parameters for long-term monitoring of the area after the benthic disturbance. Further studies on temporal variability in this region would not only verify the observed norms of distribution of these variables but would also help to understand restabilization processes after the simulated benthic disturbance.     

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中桩周土强度弱化研究

海上大直径钢管桩打桩过程中,桩周土体受到强烈扰动而发生强度弱化,掌握桩周土体强度弱化规律对于准确预测打桩过程、保证工程安全具有重要意义。为研究土体强度弱化规律,开展了环剪试验模拟打桩对桩周土体的扰动,测试土体强度随剪切速率的变化规律,建立了描述土体强度弱化规律的拟合公式,引入到打桩分析软件中。研究结果表明：土体的强度折减程度不仅与土体本身的性质有关还受到土体的埋深和剪切速率的影响,埋深越深土体强度折减程度越低,剪切速率越高土体强度折减越高,在打桩分析中可采用这里推荐的线性折减方法来模拟不同深度处土体强度的折减规律。     

Geoacoustic Inversion via Genetic Algorithm and Its Application to Manganese Sediment Identification

An acoustic inversion method using a wide-band signal and two near field receivers is proposed and applied to multiple layered seabed models including a manganese sediment. The inversion problem can be formulated into a probabilistic model comprised of signals, a forward model, and additive noise. The forward model simulates wide-band signals, such as chirp signals, and is chosen to be the source-waveletconvolution plane wave modeling method. The wavelet matching technique, using weighted least-squares fitting, estimates the sediment sound-speed and thickness on which determination of the possible numerical ranges for a priori uniform distribution is based. The genetic algorithm is applied to a global optimization problem to find a maximum a posteriori solution for determined a priori search space. Here the object function is defined by an L 2 norm of the difference between measured and modeled signals. Not only the marginal pdf but also its statistics are calculated by numerical evaluation of integrals using the samples selected during importance sampling process of the genetic algorithm.     

A Review of Some Environmental Issues Affecting Marine Mining

This article reviews information recently available from existing marine and coastal mining for responses to environmental issues affecting marine mining at different depths. It is particularly but not exclusively concerned with those issues affecting seabed biodiversity impact and recovery. Much information has been gathered in the past 10 years from shallow mining operations for construction aggregate, diamonds, and gold, from coastal mines discharging tailings to shallow and deep water, and from experimental deep mining tests. The responses to issues identified are summarized in a series of eight tables intended to facilitate site-specific consideration. Since impacts can spread widely in the surface mixing layer SML, and can affect the biologically productive euphotic zone, the main issues considered arise from the depth of mining relative to the SML of the sea. Where mining is below the SML, the issue is whether it is environmentally better to bring the extraction products to the surface vessel for processing (and waste discharge), or to process the extraction products as much as possible on the seabed. Responses to the issues need to be sitespecific, and dependent on adequate preoperational environmental impact and recovery prediction. For deep tailings disposal from a surface vessel, there are four important environmental unknowns: (1) the possible growth of "marine snow" (bacterial flocs) utilizing the enormous quantities of fine tailings particles (hundreds or thousands of metric tons per day) as nuclei for growth, (2) the possibility that local keystone plankton and nekton species may migrate diurnally down to and beyond the depth of deep discharge and hence be subjected to tailings impact at depth, (3) the burrow-up capability of deep benthos and their ability to survive high rates of tailings deposition, and (4) the pattern and rate of dispersion of a tailings density current through the deep water column from discharge point to seabed. Actions to obtain relevant information in general and site-specifically are suggested.     

Increased Particle Fluxes at the INDEX Site Attributable to Simulated Benthic Disturbance

Particle fluxes were measured 7 m above the sea bottom during the predisturbance, disturbance, and postdisturbance periods by using time series sediment traps attached to seven deep-sea moorings deployed in the INDEX experiment site in the Central Indian Basin. The predisturbance particle fluxes varied between 22.3 to 55.1 mg m -2 day -1 . Increased and variable particle fluxes were recorded by the sediment traps during the disturbance period. The increase observed was 0.5 to 4 times more than the background predisturbance fluxes. The increases in particle fluxes (~4 times) recorded by the sediment trap located in the southwestern direction (DMS-1) were the greatest, which could be the result of preferential movement of resuspended particles generated during the deep-sea benthic disturbance along the general current direction prevailing in this area during the experimental period. Also, the traps located closer to the disturbance area recorded greater fluxes than did the traps far away, across the Deep Sea Sediment Resuspension System path. This variability in recorded particle fluxes by the traps around the disturbance area clearly indicates that physical characteristics such as grain size and density of the resuspended particles produced during the disturbance had an important effect on particle movement. The postdisturbance measurements during ~5 days showed a reduction in particle fluxes of ~50%, indicating rapid particle settlement.     

Determination of In Situ Sediment Shear Strength from Advanced Piston Corer Pullout Forces

The advanced piston corer (APC) has been used by the Ocean Drilling Program since 1985 for recovering soft sediments from the ocean floor. The pullout force measured on extracting the core barrel from the sediment is shown to correlate with the average shear strength of the sediment core measured in the ship's laboratory. A simple rule of thumb is derived relating the shear strength of the sediment to the pullout force. Multiple APC holes at individual sites allow the consistency of the pullout measurements to be assessed. The effects of different operational procedures during APC coring are also explored. Although generally applicable, the correlation between pullout force and laboratory measurements of shear strength breaks down for some APC holes, possibly because of the disturbance of some sediment types during the APC coring process. A better understanding of the physical process of APC coring, and its effect on the properties of the sediment both inside and immediately outside the core barrel, would indicate what confidence can be put on the measurement of pullout force as a way of evaluating the in situ shear strength of deep sea sediments.     

Phylogenetic diversity and phenotypic characterization of cultivable bacterioplankton isolated from polar oceans

A set of 27 marine planktonic bacteria isolated from the polar regions was characterized by 16S rDNA sequencing and physiological and biochemical testing. More than half of these bacteria were positive for caseinase, gelatinase and 13-glucosidase, and could utilize glucose, maltose or malic acid as carbon source for cell growth. Twelve isolates expressed nitrate reduction activities. Except for one antarctic isolate BSwlO175 belonging to Actinobacteria phylum, these isolates were classified as γ-Proteobacteria, suggesting that γ-Proteobacteria dominated in cultivable marine bacterioplankton at both poles. Genus Pseudoalteromonas was the predominant group in the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea, and genus ShewaneUa dominated in cultivable bacterioplankton in the Prydz Bay. With sequence similarities above 97%, genus Psychrobacter was found at both poles. These 27 isolates were psychrotolerant, and significant 16S rDNA sequence similarities were found not only between arctic and antarctic marine bacteria （ 〉 99% ）, but also between polar marine bacteria and bacteria from other aquatic environments （ ≥ 98.8% ）, including temperate ocean, deep sea, pond and lake, suggesting that in the polar oceans less temperature-sensitive bacteria may be cosmopolitan and have a bipolar, even global, distribution at the species level.     

Deep-Sea Sediment Compression Curves: Some Controlling Factors, Spurious Overconsolidation, Predictions, and Geophysical Reproduction

Oedometer tests have been carried out on 70 undisturbed surficial clays (at approximately 250 mm below the mudline), mostly collected by free-fall corers from sites widely scattered throughout the deep-sea North Atlantic. Acoustic measurements were also made, initially on contiguous samples and ultimately on the same sample using a geophysically instrumented oedometer which also collected electrical resistivity data. Apart from those quiescent areas below the carbonate compensation depth, such as north of the West Indies where very fine clays exist, most of the samples are silty clays whose geotechnical-geophysical properties are dependent on the type of clay minerals present (and their ability to take in moisture), the sand-size fraction, and the quantity of carbonate present. Thus the pure clays have high compressibilities which decrease on the addition of coarse particles, while the converse is true for the acoustic parameters, these increasing with the sand fraction. Using the notion of the intrinsic compression line for all samples, and comparison to it of the measured compression curves, it is clear that, contrary to some previously held ideas, most deep-sea clays are normally consolidated; the addition of carbonate has the effect of creating an open, stronger sediment skeleton. Interestingly, where information is available, the variation with depth of a sample's acoustic velocity follows the void ratio pressure relationship of the compression curve. This allows the construction of an in-situ sediment compression curve using the in-situ geophysical observations.