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Cabled observatory vent imaging sonar.
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Volume 129, Issue 4, pp. 2373-2373 (2011); (1 page)
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Add to FacebookA cabled observatory vent imaging sonar (COVIS) has been developed to provide plume and Doppler imaging of hydrothermal vents and surrounding diffuse flow. The system was designed to be compatible with the power and data interface standards of the Neptune Canada cabled observatory. COVIS is a 4 m tall, titanium tripod employing a Reson 7125 multibeam sonar. The sonar transducers are positioned by a motor‐driven three degree of freedom rotation system (pitch, roll, and yaw). A 400 kHz, 1 × 128 deg fan‐beam projector is used with a receiver array that forms 256 beams having horizontal width 0.5 deg and covering a 128 deg azimuthal sector. Volumetric imaging of plumes is generated as the transducer array is scanned in 1 deg pitch steps. Doppler measurements of flow velocity over a 3‐D grid are also derived. A 200 kHz, 28 × 128° broad beam projector is used to image the diffuse areas near the base of the hydrothermal vent edifices. Software allows for the creation of complex, arbitrary, autonomously executed experiments that control all aspects of the sonar and rotation system. COVIS was successfully deployed in September 2010. The design of COVIS provides insights relevant to future cabled acoustic systems. [Work supported by NSF.]
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Underwater measurement and calibration instrumentation and procedures
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