Oceans 2005 - Europe

Brest, FranceJune 20-23,2005

Volume 1 of 2

41EEE IEEE Catalog Number: 05EX1042ISBN: 0-7803-9103-9

TIB/UB Hannover 89126 160 007

Table of ContentsPostprocessing Waveform Selection in Broadband Active Sonar 1James M. Gelb, Brian R. La Cow

Hybrid Joint PDF Estimation and Classification for Sparse Systems 5James M. Gelb

Global Analysis of Sea Surface Salinity from Variablility Satellite Data 11S. Michel, B. Chapron, J. Tournadre, N. Reul

Experimental study and numerical modelling of a cod-end 17Daniel PHour, G. Germain

Real-time Sonar System Using Acoustic Lens and Numerical Analysis Based on 2D/3D ParabolicEquation Method 23Yoshie Takase, T. Anada, T. Tsuchiya, N. Endoa, N. Nakamurb, T. Tukioka

Enhancing Bottom Tracking for AUVs by using Sound Diffraction 29Vincent Creuze, B. Jouvencel, P. Baccou

Guidance of an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle in Special Situations 35Mike Eichhorn

Interbeam Correlation Processing and Multibeam Resolution Improving 41Oleg Dmitriev, M.I. Arzhanov, S. V. Baykov, IP. Prudnikova, Yu. A. Kurnosov

Multidemensional Superesolution Isar Reconstruction Techniques in Sea-Cluttered Environment 44Felix Totir, E. Radoi, A. Quinquis

Validation of Complex Naval Target Models Using Superresolution Imagery Methods 50Felix Totir, E. Radoi, A. Quinquis

Hydrothermal Vents: A Novel Theory of Illumination 56Daniel J. Bogorff

Sound Fields Focused by a Biconcave Acoustic Lens for Normal and Oblique Incidence 62Toshiaki Nakamura, Mari Hashimoto, Kazuyoshi Mori, Tomoo Kamakura, Tetsuo Anada

Optimization of a Data Link Protocol for an Underwater Acoustic Channel../. 68Milica Stojanovic

Multiser Code Acquisition in Multipath Channels 74Milica Stojanovic, Lee Freitag

Simulation and Rapid Prototyping Environment for Underwater Acoutic Communications:Reconfigurable Modem 80Ethem Sozer

Human factor Integration Method in complex naval systems design : an example, Military IntegratedBridge IBEO 86Martine Pellen-Blin, Dr. Alain Bry

Multiscale Oil Slick Detection by SAR imagery using Support Vector Machines 90Gregoire Mercier, Fanny Girard-Ardhuin

Synthetic Aperture Sonar Image Reconstruction using Fast Polar Back-Projection: Comparisonswith Fast Factored Back-Projection and Fourier-Domain imaging 96Geoffrey Shippey, Simon Banks, Jorgen Pihl

Artificial Intelligence for Low-Crew Ships 102Volker Bertram

Simulation-based Ship Design 107Volker Bertram, G.D. Thiart

I Evaluation of Local Pressures in Ships using Potential Flow Models 113Volker Bertram, Hironori Yasukawa, Gerhard Thiart

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BATHYMETRIC SIDESCAN SONAR: A SYSTEM DEDICATED TO RAPID ENVTRONNMENTASSESSMENT 118Benoit Zerr, Sylvain Le Goanvic, Bruno Le Breton, Christophe Genty

SIDESCAN SONAR IMAGE PROCESSING FOR AUV NAVIGATION 124Benoit Zerr, Gilles Mailfert, Alain Bertholom, Herve Ayreault

Bayesian Sensor Registration for Multistage Active Sonar 131Brian La Cow

Real time sperm whale depth estimation using passive acoustics.. 137Olivier Adam, Christophe Laplanche, Maciej Lopatka, Jean-Frangois Motsch

Maximum Likelihood Estimates of a Spread-spectrum Source Position Using a Tetrahedral Ultra-short Baseline Array 142AsifMohamed, Pierre-Philippe J. Beaujean, Raphael Warin

Sonar Images Segmentation Using the Angular Dependance of Backscattering Distributions 147Gilles Le Chenadec, J.M. Boucher

Buried mines detection and classification : advanced technologies and signal processing 153MaudAmate, A. Hetet, S. Guyonic, M. Legris, R. Bellec, F. Maussang, J. Chanussot, P. Cervenka,J. Marchal

New Effective Analytic Representation Based on the Time-varying Schur Coefficients forUnderwater Signals Analysis 160Maciej Lopatka, Olivier Adam, Christophe Laplanche, Jean-Frangois Motsch, JanZarzycki

Measurement of Deep Water Ocean Waves from a Subsurface Mooring 166Jon Wood, Eugene Terry, Brandon Strong, Baldeo Singh

An Acoustic Network Protocol for Sub-sea Sensor Systems 172Alan Adams, G. Acar

Detection of objects buried in the seafloor 177Harald Peine, Dieter Brecht

Operational satellite monitoring of oil spill pollution in the southeastern Baltic Sea 182AndreyKostianoy, K.Ts. Litovchenko, S.A. Lebedev, S.V. Stanichny, D.M. Soloviev, O.E. Pichuzhkina

Acoustic Tomography Experiment in the Lake of Geneva - Winter Cooling 184Xavier Falourd

Development of friendly antifouling coatings from marine algae 190Alexandra Bazes, Fabienne Fay, Karine Vallee-Rehel, Eric Quemener, Jean-Paul Braud,Nathalie Bourgougnon

A Study on the use of Sar Polarimetric Data to Observe Oil Spills 196Massimo Tranfaglia, M. Migliaccio

Autonomous Bottom Moored Acoustic Observatory for Fisheries Resources Monitoring 201Carla Scalabrin, N. Diner, G. Veron, D. Choqueuse, F. Sanchez

GIS Usage for Planning of Assignment of Marine Area - Case Study 206Vlado Dadic, M. Srdelic, D. Ivankovic

Numerical Reproduction of Unsteady Small-scale Eddy Structures in the Deep Ocean 212Toru Sato, S. Hirabayashi

AU Electric Ship electromagnetic signature A twenty megawatts podded ship 217Bruno Lucas, Hugues Henocq, Thierry Albert

A multiagent system for maritime navigation simulation 223Sebastien Fournier

A Coordinate Descent Algorithm for Multichannel Multiuser Detection in Underwater AcousticDS-CDMA Systems 226Eduard Calvo Page, Milica Stojanovic

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Ships' Monitoring with Distributed GIS for Better Safety Policy 231Valerie Noyon, T. Devogele

Stochastic matched filtering method applied to SAS imagery 233Fabien Chaillan, Christophe Fraschini, Philippe Cowmontagne

Evidence of dispersion in a water-saturated granular sediment 239Preston Wilson, J. C. Wilbur, W. M Carey, R. A. Roy

Sequential Detection of a Weak Target in a Hostile Ocean Environment 244James V. Candy, Edmund J. Sullivan

Autofocus of Active Beacons for Measuring the Tow-Path of a Synthetic Aperture Sonar 249Edward Pilbrow, M. P. Hayes, P. T. Gough

Comparison of Space-time Block Code and Layered Space-time MIMO Systems for in anUnderwater Acoustic Channel 255Richard Ormondroyd, J.S. Dhanoa

An Expectation-Maximization Framework for the Estimation of Bathymetry from Side-scan SonarImages 261Enrique Coiras, Y. Petillot, DM. Lane

PHD Filter Multi-target Tracking in 3D Sonar 265Daniel Edward Clark, Judith Bell, Yves de Saint-Pern, Yvan Petillot

Exploiting natural contours for automatic sonar-to-video callibration 271Christian Barat, Maria-Joao Rendas

Non Symbolic Methods to Register SONAR Images 276Cyril Chailloux, Benoit Zerr

Low power and easy to use Ocean Bottom Seismometer (OBS) for long period surveys 282Shahram Shariat Panahi, J. Cadena, X. Roset, A. Manuel, S. Ventosa, T. Bermudez, V. Sallares

Object Detection and Classification at Different Resolutions in Archaeological Side-Scan SonarImages 287Louis Atallah, Changjing Shang, Richard Bates

•A model for predicting propagation of anthropogenic acoustic noise in the sea 293Camilla Broch Pedersen, Jens M. Hovem, Hefeng DongFusion of Local Statistical Detectors in SAS Imagery Classification 299Frederic Maussang, Michele Rombaut, Jocelyn Chanussot, Alain Hetet

Adaptive Anisotropic Diffusion for Speckle Filtering in SAS Imagery 305Frederic Maussang, Jocelyn Chanussot, Sofia C. Visan, MaudAmate

HF radar and the UK wave monitoring network, WAVENET 310Lucy Wyatt, J.J. Green, A Middleditch, M. Moorhead

HF Radar for Coastal Monitoring - a Comparison of Methods and Measurements 314Lucy Wyatt

Real Time Low Bit Rate Speech Transmission Through Underwater Acoustic Channel 319Andre Goalie, Joel Trubuil, Gerard Lapierre, JoelLabat

Use of Classification and Segmentation of Sidescan Sonar Images for Long Term Registration 322habelle Leblond, Michel Legris, Basel Solaiman

; Accurate Positioning for Underwater Acoustic Networks 328: Jose Esteban Garcia

; The Visual Servoing System CYCLOPE Designed for Dynamic Stabilisation of AUV and ROV 334j Michel Perrier

IA New Dimensionality Reduction Method for Seabed Characterization: Supervised Curvilinear1 Component Analysis 339^Hicham Laanaya, Arnaud Martin, Driss Aboutajdine, AH Kenchaf

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High-resolution interferometry for multibeam echosounders 345Gerard Llort-Pujol, Christophe Sintes, Xavier Lurton

Intelligent Diagnosis for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles using a Neuro-Symbolic System in aDistributed Architecture 350Michel Perrier, J. Kalwa

On the Analysis of Buried Objects by Processing 3-D Acoustic Images 356Maria Palmese, A. Caiti, A. Trucco

A methodology for the systematic assessment of underwater video processing algorithms 362Katia Lebart, Miguel Arredondo

Image analysis algorithms for automating the post- processing of cetacean sighting surveys data 368Katia Lebart, B. Privat, G. Voleau, Y. Petillot, R. Leaper, J. Gordon

Design Parameters for an HF Ocean Surface Radar Installation, Design Parameters for an HF OceanSurface Radar Installation 373Malcolm Heron

Performance Bounds on Synchronous Laser Line Scan Systems 379Jules Jaffe

Autonomous Underwater Pipeline Inspection in AUTOTRACKER PROJECT: the SimulationModule 384Gerardo Acosta, Hugo J. Curti, Oscar A. Calvo

Autonomous Underwater Pipeline Inspection in AUTOTRACKER PROJECT: the NavigationModule 389Gerardo Acosta, HugoJ. Curti, Oscar A. Calvo

Hydrocarbon seep monitoring using in situ deep sea mass spectrometry 395Gary M. McMutrtry, John C. Wiltshire, Arnaud Bossuyt

Simulation of Climate Significant Nonlinear Tidal Phenomena in the Euro Arctic Seas 401Ruslan May

Epipolar Geometry of Opti-Acoustic Stereo Imaging 407Shahriar Negahdaripour

The Effect of Space-Time Joint Correlation on the Underwater Acoustic MIMO Capacity 413Dazhi Piao, Biao Jiang, Huabing Yu, Changyu Sun, Qihu Li

Fast Seafloor Topography Extraction and Visualization from Sparse AUV Altimeter Data 419Matthew Zucker

1995-2005: Ten years of active research on underwater acoustic communications in Brest 425Gerard Lapierre, N. Beuzelin, J. Labat, J. Trubuil, A. Goalie, S. Saoudi, G. Ayela, P. Coince, S. Coatelan

Model inversion for midwater multibeam backscatter data analysis 431Bart Buelens, R. Williams, A. Sale, T. Pauly

Motion Estimation and Mapping by Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in Sea Environments 436Arjuna Balasuriya, Bharath Kalyan, Hayato Kondo, Toshihiro Maki, Tamaki Ura

3D Snakes for the Segmentation of Buried Mines in 3D Acoustic Images 442Jocelyn Chanussot, Dominique Attali, Romain Areste, Stephane Guyonic

Remote data access through Ethernet. Virtual Instrument for oceanographic instrumentationsupervision and analysis 447Joaquin del Rio, Antoni Manuel Lazaro, Shahram Shariat

Time-reversal focusing in a range-dependent ocean 449Julien de Rosny, Arnaud Derode, Arnaud Tourin, Philippe Roux, Mathias Fink

A Separability and Robustness Based Algorithm for Classification of Transient Sonar Signal UsingWavelet 454Heyun Huang, Xiang Pan

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Path Following Control for an Eel-like Robot 460Lionel Lapierre, Bruno Jouvencel

Data Fusion Algorithm for Sonar Data 466Pascal A.M. de Theije, Camiel A.M. van Moll

If A Nuclear Accident occurs, How Will The Radioactive Spots Be Transported By The Ocean? 475Manuel Toscano-Jimenez, J.M. Abril, R. Garcia-Tenorio

STARE, a sonar data post-processing and visualisation software package 481Pascal de Theije

Military Sonar Upgrading Methods Developed at Gdansk University of Technology 489Andrzej Stepnowski, R. Salomon, J. Marszal

Object identification by bistatic acoustic scattering 495Ilkka Karasalo, Patrik Skogqvist

Denoising Underwater Signals Propagating Through Multi-path Channels 501Arnaud Jarrot, Cornel loana, Andre Quinquis

Synthesis from underwater data : application to the oceanic discrete tomography 507Lionel Cros, Cornel loana, Andre Quinquis

PortMap: A New VHF Ocean Surface Radar for High Spatial Resolution.. 511Malcolm Heron, T. Helzel, A. Prytz, M. Kniephoff, W.J. Skirving

Near Bottom Measurement of Wave Environment in a Tidal Current 516Albert Williams 3rd, Archie Todd Morrison III

Combined parametric synthetic and interferometric sonar for the detection of buried objects 522Manell E. Zakharia, Claire Pollet, Emmanuel Rigaud

Towards a Model-Free Denoising of Underwater Optical Images 527Andreas Arnold-Bos, Jean-Philippe Malkasse, Gilles Kervern

Modeling Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) Operations in Mine Hunting 533Bao Nguyen, David Hopkin

Speckle denoising using a variational multi-wavelet approach ' 539Ronan Fablet, Jean-Marie Augustin, Alexandru Isar

The SAUV H (Solar Powered AUV) Test Results 2004 545Richard Blidberg, Sai Mupparapu, Steve Chappell, Rick Komerska

Fast and Robust Progressive Stereo Reconstruction by Symmetry Guided Fusion 551Hongsheng Zhang, Shahriar Negahdaripour

Underwater Volcano Observation by Autonomous Underwater Vehicle "r2D4" 557Kenji Nagahashi, Tamaki Ura, Takashi Sakamaki, Akira Asada, Takahi Obara, Kangsoo Kim,Kei Okamura

Fast Fourier techniques for synthetic aperture sonar imagery 563Peter T. Gough, Michael P. Hayes

One dimensional Self-Organizing Maps to optimize marine patrol activities 569Victor Lobo, Fernando Bagao

Location Calibration and DOA Estimation Using Randomly Distributed Acoustic Sensor Network 573Mingchun Liu, Chunru Wan

ML estimation of seafloor topography using multi-frequency synthetic aperture sonar 579[Philip Barclay, M.P. Hayes, P.T. Gough

Observation of Breakwaters and their Rock Mound by AUV "Tri-Dog 1" at Kamaishi Bay 585\Hayato Kondo, Toshihiro Maki, Tamaki Ura, Takashi Sakamaki

paternal Actuation of Underwater Robots Using Control Moment Gyros 591Blair Thornton, Tamaki Ura, Yoshiake Nose, Stephen Turnock

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Towed Array Shape Self-calibration Based on Blind Signal Separation 599Jie Zhuo, Chao Sun, Jie Feng

Statistical Discrimination of Seabed Textures in Sonar Images Using Co-occurrence Statistics 605Karoui Imen, Ronan Fablet, Jean-Marc Boucher, Jean-Marie Augustin

Bayesian High Resolution DOA Estimator Based on Importance Sampling 611Xiong Li, Jianguo Huang

Multipath Combining in Chaotic Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Communications through DualEstimation 616S. Azou, M.B. Luca, G. Burel, A. Serbanescu

Unsupervised registration of textured images: applications to side-scan sonar 622Pierre-Yves Mignotte, Maria Lianantonakis, Yvan Petillot

Design of networking protocols for shallow water peer-to-peer acoustic networks 628Shiraz Shahabudeen, Mandar Anil Chitre

Implementation of Genetic Programming Toward the Improvement of Acoustic ClassificationPerformance for Different Sea floor Habitats 634Yao-Ting Tseng, A.N. Gavrilov, A.J. Duncan, M. Harwerth, S. Silva

Computer simulation of the electric transmission characteristics of LW underwater opticaltelecommunication cables 640Kenichi Asakawa, Junichi Kojima, Kyohiko Mitsuzawa

Detection of Objects in Sea Sediments and Estimation of Bottom Parameters 645M.A. Larsen, J.M. Hovem

About accuracy of the elevation angle measurement in interferometric synthetic aperture sonar 650Didier Billon

NARCISSUS-2005 : A GLOBAL MODEL OF FADING CHANNEL FOR APPLICATION TOACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION IN MARINE ENVIRONMENT 655Xavier Cristol

Spatial Resolution Enhancement of Microwave Scanning Radiometer Data 663Maurizio Migliaccio, A. Gambardella, D. Theis '

Imaging of buried objects by low frequency SAS 669Mattias Jonsson, Jorgen Pihl, Marie Aklint

VLSI Architecture for an Underwater Robot Vision System 674Viorela Ila, Rafael Garcia, Francois Charot

AUV navigation and guidance in a moving acoustic network 680Anibal Matos, Nuno Cruz

Sea Surface Slicks Characterization in SAR images 686T. F. N. Kanaa, G. Mercier, E. Tonye

Bistatic radar imaging system for sea surface target detection 692F. Comblet, M.Y. Ayari, F. Pellen, A. Khenchaf

Image amplitude calibration and processing for seafioor mapping sonars 698Jean-Marie Augustin, Xavier Lurton

Multibeam Sub-Bottom Profiler: Exploitation of Experimental Data 702Anne Pacault, Gwladys Theuillon, Dr. Jean-Claude Le Gac, Dr. Xavier Lurton, Dr. Bjornar Langli

Construction of Non-contacting Power Feeding System to Underwater Vehicle UtilizingElectromagnetic Induction 709Tomohiro Kojiya, Fumihiro Sato, Hidetoshi Matsuki, Tadakuni Sato

Towards more accurate shadow modelling in simulated SAS imagery 713Alan Hunter, M.P. Hayes

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Sidescan sonar segmentation using active contours and level set methods 719Maria Lianantonakis, Yvan R. Petillot

Source depth estimation using modal decomposition and time-frequency representations 725Gregoire Le Touze, Barbara Nicolas, Jean-Louis Lacoume, Jerome Mars, Dominique Fattaccioli

Autonomous Underwater Sampling using a Manipulator and Stereovisual Servoing 731Epars Yann, Yoshiaki Nose, Tamaki Ura

Wave-induced drift and mixing 737Nicolas Rascle, Fabrice Ardhuin

Development and first results of a new fast response microelectrode DO-sensor 744RalfPrien, Robin Pascal, Matt Mowlem, Guy Denuault, Maciej Sosna

Multifrequency analysis of underwater acoustic waves reflected by complex media: principles andwater tank experiments 748Yves Le Gonidec, Dominique Giber

A control architecture for contextual tasks management: application to the AUV Taipan 752Abdellah El Jalaoui, D. Andreu, B. Jouvencel

Closer to Deep Underwater Science with ODYSSEY IV Class Hovering Autonomous UnderwaterVehicle (HAUV) 758Samuel Desset, R. Damus, F. Hover, J. Morash, V. Polidoro

High-Resolution 3-D Imaging by a Sparse Array: Array Optimization and Image Simulation 763Stefania Repetto, M. Palmese, A. Trucco

Multicomponent Seismo-acoustic Surface Waves Beamforming for Undersea Buried ObjectDetection 769Cyril Kotenkoff, Jean-Louis Lacoume, Jerome Mars

SPINAV (Subsea Pilotless INspection using an Autonomous Vehicle) : Concepts and Results 775Dr. Kelvin Hamilton, Dr. Jonathan Evans

Exploration of Underwater Structures with Cooperative Heterogeneous Robots 782Dirk Spenneberg, Christoph Waldmann, Richard Babb

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On the Potential of Current Measurements by Spaceborne along-track InSAR for River RunoffMonitoring 787Roland Romeiser

AUV Control using Reinforcement Learning Policy Search Methods 793A. El-Fakdi, M. Carreras, N. Palomeras, P. Ridao

Coriolis, a French project for operational oceanography 799Stephanie Contardo, Y. Gouriou, Sylvie Pouliquen, L. Petit de la Villeon, G. Loaec, L. Gourmelen

An improvement of the discriminating capability of the active SONAR by optimization of a criterionbased on the Cramer-Rao lower bound 804Christophe Fraschini, Fabien Chaillan, Philippe Courmontagne

Military Operations with HUGIN AUVs: Lessons Learned and the Way Ahead 810Per Espen Hagen, Nils Storkersen, Bjorn-Erik Marthinsen, Geir Sten, Karstein Vestgard

Underwater Path Planning Using Fast Marching Algorithms 814Clement Petres, Yan Pailhas, Yvan Petillot, Dave Lane

Low-cost Platform for Operational Pollutant and Object Drift Forecast 820Jean-Pierre Maze, Actimar

Experimental assessment of OFDM and DSSS modulations for use in littoral waters underwateracoustic communications 826Francois Frassati, Charles Lafon, Pierre-Andre Laurent, Jean-Michel Passerieux

Dynamical modelling of underwater visibility 832Sophie Loyer, F. Jourdin, P. Le Hir, P. Lazure

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SAS and vehicle stability constraints 839Franck Fohanno, F. Florin

Automatic Classification for MCM Systems 844Isabelle Quidu, Nicolas Burlet, Jean-Philippe Malkasse, F. Florin

Operational quantitative mapping of oil pollutions at sea by joint use of an Hyperspectral Imagerand a Fluorescence Lidar System on board a fixed-wing aircraft 848Marc Lennon, N. Thomas, V. Mariette, S. Babichenko, G. Mercier

Analysis and Modelling of Experimental Doubly-Spread Shallow-Water Acoustic Channels 854Charalampos Tsimenidis, B.S. Sharif, O.R. Hinton, A.E. Adams

Extension of PE-adjoint optimization to multiple frequencies 859Jean-Pierre Hermand, Matthias Meyer, MarkAsch

Validation of High Frequency Acoustic Target Modelling 865Benoit Quesson, P. Schippers, J. Groen, J.C. Sabel, F.P.G. Driessen

Common Issues Between Cabled and Non Cabled Observatories in ASSEM Project 872Jean-Frangois Rolin, J. Blandin, V. Lykousis, J.M.Strout, G. Etiope, P. Favali, P. Briole, V. Ballu,G. Papatheodorou, G. Ferentinos, D. Cathy, M. Masson

Comparison of multisensor fusion methods for seabed classification 878David Kerneis, B. Zerr

The Automatic Fusion of Classified Sidescan Sonar Mosaics using CML-RTS and Markov RandomFields 883Scott Reed, I. Tena Ruiz, C. Capus, Y. Petillot

Embedded intelligent supervision and piloting for oceanographic AUV 889Laurent Nana, F. Singhojf, J. Legrand, J. Vareille, P. Le Pare, F. Monin, D. Masse, L. Marce, J.Opderbecke, M. Perrier, V. Rigaud

Use of a Long Endurance Solar Powered Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (SAUVII) to MeasureDissolved Oxygen Concentrations in Greenwich Bay, Rhode Island, U.S.A. 896Denise Crimmins, Chris Deacutis, Elizabeth Hinchey, Marnita Chintala, Giancarlo Cicchetti,Dick Blidberg ,

Hybrid Wavelet-Hilbert-Huang Spectrum Analysis 902Fu-Tai Wang, Shun-Hsyung Chang, Jenny Chih-Yu Lee

Investigation of safety mechanisms for oceanographic AUV missions programming... 906Laurent Nana, L Marce, J. Opderbecke, M. Perrier, V. Rigaud

Contributions to Passive Acoustic Oceanic Tomography - Part U: Extraction of PropagationFeatures from Single Hydrophone Measurement 914Cedric Gervaise, E. Bou Mansour, S. Vallez, H. Le Floch, A. Martin, A. Khenchaf, Y. Simard

Contributions to Passive Acoustic Oceanic Tomography - Part i n 919E. Bou Mansour, Cedric Gervaise, A. Khenchaf

Contributions to Passive Acoustic Oceanic Tomography - Part IV 924S. Vallez, Arnaud Martin, AH Mansour, Cedric Gervaise, AH Khenchaf

Automatic MCM mission control for AUV systems 930Naig Le Bouffant, Phil Pidsley, Jean-Philippe Malkasse, Franck Florin

HF Radar Wave Measurents in the Presence of Ship Echoes - Problems and Solutions 937Klaus-Werner Gurgel, Thomas Schlick

Sea surface currents and wind direction by VHF radar: results and validation 942Veronique Cochin, Philippe Forget, Benoit Seille, Gregoire Mercier

A Geographical Information System for Risk Assessment of Toxic Seabed Dumpsites 948Andrea Caiti, P. Jonsson, L. Gelaziene, R. Minciardi, M. Robba, R. Sacile

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Measurements and Modeling of the Target Strength of Divers 952Sairajan Sarangapani, James H. Miller, Gopu R Potty, D. Benjamin Reeder, Timothy K. Stanton,Dezhang Chu

A New ROV Design: Issues on Low Drag and Mechanical Symmetry 957Rui M. F. Gomes, Alexandre Sousa, Sergio Loureiro Fraga, Alfredo Martins, Joao Borges Sousa,Fernando Lobo Pereira

Neptus - A Framework to Support Multiple Vehicle Operation 963Paulo Sousa Dias, Rui M. F. Gomes, Jose Pinto, Sergio Loureiro Fraga, Gil M. Gongalves,Joao Borges Sousa, Fernando Lobo Pereira '

An Acoustically-Linked Deep-Ocean Observatory 969Daniel Frye, J. Ware, M. Grund, J. Partan, P. Koski, S. Singh, L. Freitad J. Collins, R. Detrick

Design of Advanced AUV for Deployment Close to Seabed and Other Hazards 975Levente Molnar, Edin Omerdic, Daniel Toal

Implementation and Application of a Real-Time Sidescan Sonar Simulator 981James Riordan, Edin Omerdic, Daniel Toal

On the furtivity of signals used in Oceanic Acoustic Tomography experiments 987Olivier Rabaste, Thierry Chonavel

Time-Series Modeling using the Waveform Transmission Through a Channel Program 993Sean Pecknold, James A. Theriault, Donald McGaughey, Jeff Collins

Application of the DORT method to the detection and characterization of two targets in a shallowwater waveguide 1001Jean-Gabriel Minonzio, D. Clorennec, A. Aubry, T. Folegot, T. Pelican, C. Prada, J. de Rosny, M. Fink

Real Time Ocean Research Education: Methods and technologies for outreach during a ship-basedresearch cruise 1007Tom Fedenczuk, P. Fryer, L Tatreau

'. Directivity Measurements of the TIAPS Horizontal Line Array Projector 1010> James A. Theriault, Ken Rhyno, Sean P. Pecknold, David Hazen, Greg Baker, Colin Calnan

: 2005 Synopsis on Canadian Environmental Legislation and Policies affecting Attive Sonar Researchbased in Nova Scotia 1015

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Pair-wise Processing for Localization of Multiple Broadband CW Sources 1020Eva-Marie Nosal, L. Neil Frazer

> A Monte Carlo simulator for evaluation of AUV configuration in object search and classificationf» missions 1024

Andrea Caiti, D. Martini, V. Morellato, G. Vettori

Cetacean Biosonar and Noise Pollution 1028Michel Andre, T. Johansson, E. Delory, M. van der Schaar

Industrial Solutions for Regional Cabled Ocean Observatories 1033Gary Waterworth

Circular Synthetic Aperture Sonar Design 1038A. D. Friedman, Theo Kooij, S. K Mithcell, K. N. Scarbrough

Fusion of SHOALS Bathymetric Lidar and Passive Spectral Data for Shallow Water RapidEnvironmental Assessment 1046Grady Tuell, J.Y. Park, J. Aitken, V. Ramnath, V. Fey gels, Y. Kopelivich

Detection of Creak Clicks of Sperm Whales in low SNR conditions 1052Varvara Kandia, Yannis Stylianou

An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Towed Array for Ocean Acoustic Measurements andInversions 1058

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Environmental monitoring of a fish processing effluent plume in coastal Newfoundland 1062Sara Adams, N. Bose, K. Hawboldt, T. Husain

Estimating layover in broadband synthetic aperture sonar bathymetry 1068Michael Hayes, A. J. Hunter, P. J. Barclay, P. T. Gough

Multi-Carrier PSK Modulation For Long-Range Underwater Acoustic Communication 1074Jianguo Huang, Yong Chen, Qunfei Zhang, Xiaohong Shen, Fang Wang

Comparaison Between Sea Surface Features from Ocean Colour Imagery and 3D Modelling inNorthern Mediterranean Sea 1078Gael Andre, P. Forget, P. Garreau, P. Fraunie / ^ "

A methodology for underwater video classifier design and comparison on limited data sets....... 1084David B. Redpath, Katia Lebart, Chris Smith /

/Synthetic Aperture Sonar Processing for the HUGIN AUV J. 1090Roy Edgar Hansen, Tor stein Olsmo Scebo, Hoyden John Callow, Per Espen Hagen, Erik Hammerstad

Towards Robust Quality Assessment of SAS imagery using the DPCA algorithm 1095Hoyden John Callow, Torstein Olsmo Sceba, Roy Edgar Hansen

A Novel Wideangle Ultrasonic Sensor Utilizing a Curved Radiator Developed for Use in an AUVObstacle Avoidance System 1101Sean Nolan, D. Toal, H. Ewald

Ship Noise Classification Using Probabilistic Neural Network and AR Model Coefficients 1107Mehdi Farrokhrooz, M. Karimi

Discrimination of Events in the Indian Ocean 1111Antoine Roueff M. Aupetit, YCansi, P-F. Piserchia

Matched Filtering of a Phase Encoded Sweep-Spread Carrier Signal: Evaluation of Upper andLower Limits for Maximum of Filter Methodical Error. 1117Konstantin G. Kebkal, Alexey G. Kebkal, Rudolf Bannasch

Multiresolution analysis of SAS images 1127Fabien Chaillan, Christophe Fraschini, Philippe Courmontagne, MaudAmate

A Compact Control Language for AUV Acoustic Communication 1133Roger Stokey, Lee E. Freitag, Matthew D. Grund

Nearly real-time, safety-related, remotely accessible marine GIS 1138A. Stepnowski, Z. Aubniewski, A. Partyka, K. Bikonis, M. Moszynski, J. Demkowicz

Study of the influence of the sea surface on the observability of a man-made target in SAR images 1141Vincent Gras, Morgan Lamy

System for Mono- and Bistatic Sonar Investigation of Buried Objects 1147Niels Jacobsen, P. Moren, G. Sundin, J. Pihl

ShaUow Angle LIDAR for Wave Measurement 1151JohnHorwood, R. W F. Thurley, M. R. Belmont, J. Baker

AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF OCEANOGRAPHIC STRUCTURES AT SHOM : A REVIEW 1155Stephanie Vrac

A Fatigue Crack Initiation Approach for Naval Welded Joints 1163Nicolas Lautrou, David Thevenet, Jean-Yves Cognard

Scientific Application of Advanced Underwater Positioning Techniques 1171Dr. Nunzio Randazzo, Dr. C. Bechaz

Data-link Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks 1174Alexey Kebkal, Konstantin Kebkal, Maxim Komar

On the fluctuation of the ambiguity function in RADAR and SONAR 1181Christophe Fraschini, Fabien Chaillan, Philippe Courmontagne

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An Iso-Deviant Strategy for Efficient Acoustic Grids with EAGLE 1187ErikR Rike, Donald R. DelBalzo

Optimized Multistatic Sonobuoy Fields 1193Donald DelBalzo, D. N. McNeal, D. P. Kierstead

Applying Surface Current Monitoring to Coastal Ocean Management 1199Paul Siri, Burr Heneman, Sam Schuchat, Sheila Semans, Becky Smyth

Estimation of the DORT method in a realistic shallow water wave-guide 1205Dominique Clorennec, Julien de Rosny, Jean-Gabriel Minonzio, Claire Prada, Mathias Fink,Thomas Folegot, Philippe Billand, Sebastien Tauvry, Sidonie Hibral, Lothar Berniere

Design of a Time Reversal Mirror for Medium Scale Experiments a^^ZZ7.. . ^ ^ . 1210Thomas Folegot, Philippe Billand, Sebastien Tauvry, Sidonie Hibral, Lothar Berniere, Julien de Rosny,Dominique Clorennec, Jean-Gabriel Minonzio, Claire Prada, Mathias Fink, Bruno Celestin

Optical configurations for oceanographic applications of eHolography 1214John Watson, H Sun, D.C. Hendry, M.A. Player

Genetic Planning of Control Actions for a High Maneuvrability AUV 1220J. Femandez-Prisuelos, B. De Andres-Toro, J.M. Giron-Sierra, J.M. De la Cruz, J.M. Riola

Ships Confining an Oil Spill Over: A Scenario for Automatized Cooperation 1226J.F. Jimenez, J.M. Giron-Sierra, A. Dominguez, J.M. De la Cruz, J.M. Riola

A Fast Automomous Scaled Ship for Experimental Seakeeping Control Studies 1232S. Esteban, J. Recas, J.M. Giron-Sierra, J.M. De la Cruz, J.M. Riola

Application of QoS Management Techniques to New Naval Combat Systems 1238Laurent Enel, Ludovic Martinet

The Litto3D Project 1244Laurent Louvart, Christophe Grateau

HOMER: Early Results from a Novel Seabed-Resident Water Column Profiler 1252M.E. Inall, D.T. Meldrum, P.G. Provost, D.J.L Mercer, C.R. Griffiths, O. Peppe, I.M. Vassie,W.T. Thomson

Perspective of the Use of HF Radars on Buoys 1256Anthony Bourges, Regis Guinvarch

Maritime crisis management aided by Information and Communication Technologies : thePOLLUCOM system 1260Michel Despriee, Philippe Tanguy, et Laurent Therier

Gabor Atomic Decomposition of Green's functions for Geoacoustic Inversion and Segmentation of aShallow Water Environment 1264Patrick Oonincx, Jean-Pierre Hermand

Low-Frequency Attenuation of Sound in Marine Sediments 1270Allan D. Pierce, William M. Carey, Mario Zampolli

In-situ optical fiber sensors for temperature and salinity monitoring 1276Laurent Marrec, T. Bourgerette, E. Datin, N. Ferchaud, B. Pucel, Lionel Quetel, C. Renault, D. Tregoat

Identification of model parameters for predicting long term behaviour of marine ropes 1279Emmanuel Chailleux, B. Forest, Peter Davies

Characterisation of improved polyester fibres for offshore mooring lines 1286Celine LeChat, A. Piant, A.R. Bunsell, Peter Davies, B. Forest

Multi-scale MAP Despeckling of SONAR Images 1292Alexandru Isar, D. Isar, Sorin Moga, Jean-Marie Augustin, X. Lurton

Investigation of thickness effects on 2D Naca symmetric foils 1298C. Sarraf R. Jaouen, Henda Djeridi, J. Y. Billard

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Nmcrkal simulation of marine propulsors hydrodynamic behaviour 1304Francois Deniset, R. Jaouen, J.-Y. Billard, J.-M. Laurens, N. Lautrou, S. Moyne, S. Phoemspatawee

The Penfeld Seabed Penetrometer 1309Jacques Meunier, N. Sultan, P. Jegou, F. Harmegnies

MERSEA - Development of a European System for Operational Monitoring and Forecasting of theOcean Physics, Biogeochemistry and Ecosystems, on Global and Regioal Scales 1315Yves Desaubies

Localization of a Fleet of AUV's using Visual Maps 1320Silvia Botelho, Renato Neves, Lorenzo Taddei

Acoustic Intensity Gradient Measuring and Analysis Equipment .̂ nn .«»„»»... 1326IgnatN. Vasile

Biotoxicity testing and chemical analysis at a munitions dumping area in the Stockholm archipelago(Baltic Sea) revealed low toxicity and low concentrations of lipophilic pollutants 1329Tomas Hansson, Gun Akerman, Ulla Tjarnlund, Henrik Sundberg, Kerstin Grunder, Yngve Zebiihr,Andrea Caiti, Lennart Balk

A SIMULATION STUDY OF A NON-COHERENT RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR OILSLICK DETECTION 1337Witold Czarnecki, A. Kawalec, M. Kowalewski

Evaluation of the Mutual coupling Between Shipborne Antennas 1343Razvan Tamas

The Effects of the Dimensions, the Shape and the Speed of the Ship on the Pressure Distributions inSurrounding Sea Water. 1347Niculae Alexe

OCEANPAL, A GPS-reflection coastal instrument to monitor tide and sea-state 1351S. Dunne, F. Soulat, M. Caparrini, O. Germain, E. Farres, X. Barroso, G. Ruffini

Technical Advances in Comprehensive Oceanographic Data Management 1357John Graybeal, K.J. Gomes

Implementing the Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System (GoMOOS) '.. 1362Neal Pettigrew, Collin S. Roesler

Interrelated Functional Topics Concerning Autonomy Related Issues in the Context of AutonomousInspection of Underwater Structures 1370Daniel Scourzic, Herve A. Kermorgant

Results from a Hybrid Synthetic Aperture Motion Estimation Scheme 1376Daniel A. Cook, John S. Stroud, Jose E. Fernandez, John D. Lathrop

Ultra-Short BaseLine Acoustic Receiver/Processor 1382Frederic M. Jaffre, Thomas C. Austin, Ben G. Allen, Roger Stokey, Christopher J. Von Alt

Simulation of GALILEO signals in a maritime environment using an electromagnetic scatteringmodel: influence of the sea state 1386Arnaud Coatanhay, AH Khenchaf

Real-time geoacoustic inversion of large band signals 1392Christophe Viala, C. Noel, Y. Stephan, M. Asch

Ultra high resolution mapping of sub-seabed sediment device: results and comparison withvibrocoring analysis in a very shallow water area 1396Xavier Demoulin, L. Richier, O. Savanier

Architecture of AUV systems for Harbour Protection and Mine Counter Measure 1400Herve Kermorgant

Marine applications of GALILEO 1406Roland Person

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New Concepts in Mine Warfare 1408Severine Proutiere, G. Fardella, F. Schom

ESONET: Toward an European Network of Excellence on Sub sea Observatories 1411Roland Person, J. Mienert, N. O'Neill, P. Favali, C. Millot, J. Marvaldi, T.C.E. Van Weering,A. Tselepides, F. Gasparoni, H.W. Gerber, I.G. Priede, O. Pfannkuche, L. Thomsen, N. Zitellini,J.M.A. de Miranda

GAPS, Combined USBL + INS + GPS Tracking System for Fast Septyable & High AccuracyMultiple Target Positioning 1415F. Napolitano, F. Cretollier, H. Pelletier

Combination of Bathymetric and Terrestrial Survey in One System 1421Carl-John Stigermark

EXPLORA 2005 Concept & Systems DEMO for Littoral Reconnaissance (MCM, REA, Harborprotection) and R&T activities 1428Frederic Dabe, A. Hetet, G. Mailfert, J. Le Hars, N. Beuzelin

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