温盐深变化对波束脚印坐标的影响规律分析

在多波束测深中，温盐深剖面数据的准确性对测量精度起到非常重要的作用，而在实际测量中，温盐深误差又不可避免地存在。为了分析温盐深变化对波束脚印坐标的影响规律并将其影响值量化，本文在声速剖面间接测量数据的基础上，选择精度较高、适应性较强的声速经验公式推导其误差公式，计算温盐深变化所引起的声速误差值，并且在常梯度声线跟踪模型的基础上推导出声波旅行轨迹的水平位移和垂直位移误差公式，然后结合声速剖面计算出声速误差对波束脚印坐标的影响程度。实验结果表明，温度变化对声速的影响最大，盐度和深度依序次之；温度、盐度、深度3个参量的变化引起波束脚印Z坐标的变化量均大于X、Y坐标，最高可达变化前深度的0.6%。温度和盐度的变化引起的三轴坐标值变化量随入射角的增大而减小，而深度变化引起的三轴坐标值变化量几乎不随入射角的变化而变化。本文研究结果可为温盐深误差对多波束测深精度评估工作提供借鉴作用。

Analysis of the influence of temperature,salinity and depth variations on beam footprint coordinates

The multi-beam echo sounder is usually used in bathymetry activity, the accuracy of temperature, salinity and depth profile data play a very important role in the bathymetry. Unfortunately, those errors among the temperature, salinity and depth data were inevitably brought into the measurement. To analyze the influence of temperature, salinity and depth variations on beam footprint coordinates and quantify its influence value, then, on basis of the indirect measurement data of sound velocity profile, the empirical formula of sound velocity with high precision and strong adaptability were selected to deduce their error formula, and the error value of sound velocity caused by temperature, salinity and depth variation was calculated. On the basis of constant-gradient sound ray tracing model, the horizontal and vertical displacement error formulas of sound wave travel path were derived, and then the influence value of acoustic velocity error on beam footprint coordinates was calculated by combining with sound velocity profile. The experimental results show that temperature has the greatest influence on sound velocity, followed by salinity and depth. The variations of temperature, salinity and depth cause the Z-coordinate variation of the beam footprint to be larger than the X and Y coordinates, up to 0.6% of the depth before the change. The variation of three-dimensional coordinates caused by temperature and salinity decreases with the increase of incident angle, however, the variation of three-dimensional coordinates caused by depth hardly changes with the change of incident angle. The results of this paper can be used for reference to evaluate the accuracy of multi-beam bathymetry with temperature, salinity and depth error.