AN EXPLORATION OF CONVENTIONAL BEAMFORMING APPLIED TO A PHASE MEASURING SONAR

De Deus, João Celso Silva

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Campo DC	Valor	Idioma
dc.contributor.advisor	John E. Hughes Clarke	pt_BR
dc.contributor.author	De Deus, João Celso Silva	-
dc.date.accessioned	2024-06-05T16:25:59Z	-
dc.date.available	2024-06-05T16:25:59Z	-
dc.date.issued	2023-12	-
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.repositorio.mar.mil.br/handle/ripcmb/846956	-
dc.description	Brazilian rivers are a particularly challenging navigation environment because of frequent changes in bathymetry due to sediment transport. To accelerate the production of hydrographic information for these regions, the Brazilian Hydrographic Office has been investigating efficient ways of riverine surveying. In this context, Phase Measuring Bathymetric Sonars (PMBS) are being considered because of their potential to provide wider swaths than traditional Multibeam Echo Sounders (MBES) in shallow waters. Although these systems historically had severe limitations in sounding quality and nadir density, new models with multiple stave pairs are being built to overcome these issues, including the EdgeTech 6205, which claims to use beamforming to resolve nadir gaps, a long-term problem of PMBS. This research reproduced conventional phase detection algorithms and compared them to an in-house developed differential phase Direction of Arrival (DOA) estimator, which uses phase- shift beamforming to constrain the receiver elevation angle sensitivity. To assess the 6205’s performance, a shallow water region, known to have varying seafloor characteristics, such as rough, smooth, target-filled, and a seafloor depth gradient, was investigated by both an EdgeTech 6205 and, as a benchmark reference, an MBES Kongsberg EM2040P, already well-assessed and used in high-quality hydrographic surveys around the world. Depths were comparable to shallow rivers to assess if it would provide reasonable quality and efficiency for riverine surveys. The results obtained indicated that the use of beamforming significantly contributed to the suppression of multipath and noise. At the same time, the system evaluation attested to its potential to be used in hydrographic surveys, being an efficient alternative to conventional multibeam systems for IHO S-44 Order 1 riverine surveys.	pt_BR
dc.language.iso	en	pt_BR
dc.publisher	University of New Hampshire (UNH)	pt_BR
dc.rights	openAccess	pt_BR
dc.subject	Batimetria	pt_BR
dc.subject	Interferometria	pt_BR
dc.subject	Beamforming	pt_BR
dc.title	AN EXPLORATION OF CONVENTIONAL BEAMFORMING APPLIED TO A PHASE MEASURING SONAR	pt_BR
dc.type	masterThesis	pt_BR
dc.subject.dgpm	Hidrografia e Navegação	pt_BR
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