Interferometric side scan sonar and data fusion

Christophe Ray Sintes; Basel Solaiman

doi:10.1117/12.381664

3 April 2000 Interferometric side scan sonar and data fusion

Christophe Ray Sintes, Basel Solaiman

Proceedings Volume 4051, Sensor Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications IV; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.381664
Event: AeroSense 2000, 2000, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

This paper concerns the possibilities of sea bottom imaging and altitude determining of each imaged point. The performances of new side scan sonars which are able to image the sea bottom with a high definition and are able to evaluate the relief with the same definition derive from an interferometric multisensor system. The drawbacks concern the precision of the numerical altitude model. One way to improve the measurements precision is to merge all the information issued from the multi-sensors system. This leads to increase the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and the robustness of the used method. The aim of this paper is to clearly demonstrate the ability to derive benefits of all information issued from the three arrays side scan sonar by merging: (1) the three phase signals obtained at the output of the sensors, (2) this same set of data after the application of different processing methods, and (3) the a priori relief contextual information. The key idea the proposed fusion technique is to exploit the strength and the weaknesses of each data element in the fusion of process so that the global SNR will be improved as well as the robustness to hostile noisy environments.

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Christophe Ray Sintes and Basel Solaiman "Interferometric side scan sonar and data fusion", Proc. SPIE 4051, Sensor Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications IV, (3 April 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.381664

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