Calibration techniques and sampling resolution requirements for groundtruthing multibeam acoustic backscatter (EM3000) and QTC VIEW™ classification technology

Both acoustic and sediment surveys were carried out in the Broughton Archipelago, British Columbia, in order to map a former aquaculture site and calibrate acoustic surveys with georeferenced sediment properties. The acoustic surveys included EM3000 Multibeam (including backscatter) and QTC VIEW™ (Series IV) technologies, while the geotechnical survey entailed Van Veen grab sampling of surface sediments and associated analyses. The two acoustic technologies were consistent in their ability to identify distinct regions of seafloor characterized by rock outcrops, consolidated substrates, or gel-mud depositional fields. Both multibeam backscatter data and QTC VIEW™ number-coded classifications were extracted across a range of circular areas located at each georeferenced sampling station (radii: 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 12, 16, 20 m). Statistical correlations were observed between backscatter and certain geotechnical properties, such as sediment porosity, sediment grain size fractions (<2 μm, silt content), and particulate sulfur concentration. The areal resolution of backscatter extraction was explored in terms of determining a sensitive calibration technique between backscatter and sediment properties. In general the highest r² values between backscatter and sediment variables were observed across extraction radii between 8 and 20 m. Such groundtruthing techniques could be used to interpolate seafloor characteristics between sampling stations and provide a steering tool for sampling designs associated with benthic monitoring programs.     

Progressive deformation of an evaporite-bearing accretionary complex: SeaMARC I,SeaBeam and piston-core observations from the Mediterranean Ridge

The Mediterranean Ridge is an arcuate ridge of deformed sediment caught up in the convergent plate margin between the African plate and the Aegean. An intensive campaign of SeaMARC I and SeaBeam surveys followed by piston coring has been conducted along the contact between undeformed turbidites of the Sirte Abyssal Plain and folded and faulted sediments of the Mediterranean Ridge. Along the outer edge of the Ridge, surficial sediments have been deformed into sinusoidal ridges and troughs (wavelengths 0.5–2 km, amplitude 20–150 m), which we interpret as folds. In plan view, the ridge and the trough fabric parallels the NW-SE trending regional contours, suggesting that the folds formed in response to compression orthogonal to the Mediterranean Ridge. The outermost ridge is shedding a debris apron out onto the abyssal plain, implying that uplift and deformation are ongoing. We show that the geometry of the outermost folds can be produced by elastic bending of a packet of 5–10 relatively strong layers, each 10–20 m thick, interbedded between weaker layers; we equate the strong layers with gypsum beds in the Messinian upper evaporites. Folding the seafloor from a flat layer into the observed ridge and trough topography would shorten the layer by less than 2%. Two percent shortening (equals two percent thickening) is insufficient to create the observed relief of the Mediterranean Ridge even if the entire sediment column down to basement were involved; we infer that additional shortening/thickening is accommodated by thrust faulting above a decollement at the top of the Messinian salt layer. At distances > 15 km from the deformation front and more than 500 m from the abyssal plain, sharp-edged, fine-grained side-scan lineations with very little vertical relief cut across the kilometer-scale ridge and trough topography. These fine-grained lineations fall in two groups trending N/S to NNE/SSW and ~ENE. We interpret these lineaments as traces of conjugate strike-slip faults formed in the same compressional regime which formed the NW/SE trending folds. The onset of strike-slip faulting may coincide with the cessation of imbricate thrust fan development above the initial salt-controlled decollement surface. The following characteristics of the Mediterranean Ridge are attributed to the presence of evaporites in the incoming sedimentary section: (1) initial deformation by folding rather than thrust faulting; (2) narrow taper; (3) rapid rate of outward growth; (4) karstification.     

卫星导航接收机中锁频环的两种实现方式

对卫星导航接收机中的锁频环进行了研究，主要涉及锁频环的鉴别器算法、环路调节的两种方式，并对这两种实现方式作了仿真。     

多波束成像声纳系统低功耗设计

针对多波束成像声纳系统降低系统功耗提高续航能力的要求,从硬件和算法两个方面展开了对系统的低功耗设计。硬件方面通过采用单电源运算放大器(OPA)电路架构对系统调理模块的放大、滤波链路进行了重新设计,实际测试结果表明实现了14.37W的系统功耗降低。算法方面通过提出一种基于圆阵的旋转多波束形成方法,在完成系统多波束设计的基础上实现了85倍的资源优化效果,为信号处理模块的FPGA芯片低功耗选型提供了技术支撑。     

一种适用于海量多波束测深数据的中值滤波算法

针对CUBE算法中的数据中值滤波排序问题,设计了一种基于堆结构的中值滤波算法。这种方法以初始滤波窗口中间数据为支点,把滤波序列划分为2个堆,进而把查找滤波窗口中间位置数据转化为在两个堆中进行排序并输出根节点的操作。实验结果表明,这种方法的滤波速度约为基于二分查找的中值滤波算法的2~4倍,适合应用于海量数据的滤波处理。     

多星座参考站接收机钟差的估计方法研究

多星座数据融合处理时,由于接收机钟差和信号传播延迟的影响,导致信号发射时刻的卫星位置不能精确求定。在定位解算里,可以通过星间差分消除与光速有关的接收机钟差影响,然而与卫星径向速度有关的接收机钟差项却得不到消除。该文详细分析了多星座接收机不同钟差值的产生原因,推导了卫星径向速度对站星距的影响,提出了一种针对多星座的单基准站接收机钟差估计方法,通过统一修正各星座卫星位置,有效消除了与卫星速度有关的接收机钟差项的误差,并且适用于存在1ms时钟跳跃的接收机,实现多星座融合的高精度定位。     

卫星导航接收机中多波束抗干扰技术

抗干扰是卫星导航接收机中一项重要的技术。提出了一种卫星导航接收机中的新型多波束抗干扰方法,该方法能够较好地兼顾零陷深度与卫星信号增益的矛盾,达到抑制干扰的同时增强卫星信号强度的目的。通过大量仿真实验分析了波束数目、波束分配方式以及波束指向偏差对抗干扰性能的影响。仿真结果和性能分析验证了该方法的有效性和可行性。     

掩星接收机误差对大气温度反演精度影响仿真研究

为了评估掩星接收机误差对无线电掩星探测精度的影响,利用EGOPS软件仿真研究了多普勒偏差、多普勒频移、时钟稳定性/单差分、接收机噪声和局部多路径等对GNSS无线电掩星反演大气温度、折射率、密度、压力廓线的影响.模拟设计过程中选择METOP作为接收的LEO卫星,GPS星座作为发射系统,设置GRAS天线.从模拟的567个掩星事件中选择了一个上升掩星事件和一个下降掩星事件进行模拟分析.研究结果表明:对于设置的"最差"情况,温度误差最大值大部分出现在平流层顶附近,其中多普勒偏差引起的温度误差最大值接近2 K,多普勒频移引起的温度误差最大值小于0.3 K,时钟稳定性/单差分引起的温度误差最大值接近3 K,现实接收机噪声引起的温度误差最大值超过了4 K,局部多路径引起的温度误差最大值小于1.5 K.经讨论分析认为:对于高质量的无线电掩星反演,掩星接收机误差源中最主要的是接收机热噪声、时钟稳定性/单差分和多普勒偏差.文中还随机选取了30个掩星事件进行统计分析,将其温度反演结果与ECMWF分析场数据比较得出,温度误差的平均偏差在45 km高度上最大,约为1 K;最大标准偏差出现在平流层顶,约为5 K,这验证了廓线反演算法的有效性,表明了误差分析结果的正确性和普遍性.     

TEM中心回线中—远带响应特征

近20年来,中心回线观测已进入全域时段,然而有关中—远带响应特征的文章极为少见,致使用户困惑,比如晚延时响应值大于早延时响应值(ε-上凸)、在同一测点2种仪器系统观测结果相差太大等。对此笔者做了详细分析。结果表明,中—远带响应特征基本为4种,ε-上凸只是其中之一,导致所测响应出现差别的主要原因是接收线圈延时。因此,若工作于中—远带,必须确切测定线圈延时,合理选择发射回线边长。