Hawaii Mapping Research Group

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Remote Sensing in Submarine Environments
Fall 2005

Margo Edwards
POST 815B; 956-5232
margo@soest.hawaii.edu

Bruce Appelgate
POST 815D; 956-9720

bruce@soest.hawaii.edu

Course Meets: Tuesday/Thursday, 9:00-10:15 POST 702
Office Hours: Whenever our office doors are open

Topics: Platforms and Sensors / Physics and Engineering
Navigation
Attitude
Sound and SONAR
Single- and multibeam sonars
Phase-difference/interferometric sonars
Subbottom-penetrating sonars
Passive sonars
Light in the ocean
Digital cameras
Video cameras
Laser scanning
Satellites, aircraft, ships, submersibles
ROVs, AUVs, gliders, ocean buoys
Cabled observatories
Gravimeters
LIDAR and Multi-spectral satellites

Grading
• Based on weekly discussions of reading materials (typically handed out on
Thursday/before weekend), article summaries and final project.
• There will not be a mid-term or final exam, but we will have occasional homework
assignments based on something discussed in class.
• There will be at least one field trip to SNUG Harbor on a Saturday or Sunday near the
end of the semester.

Article Summaries
To be assigned at class time. After presenting a summary in class, please email a 1-page
(or thereabouts) PDF with scientific/technical summary and evaluation to Margo/Bruce.