TY - GEN
T1 - Modified algorithm for synthetic aperture sonar
AU - Sawa, T.
AU - Aoki, T.
AU - Nakamura, M.
AU - Yoshida, H.
AU - Tsukioka, S.
AU - Tadahiro, H.
AU - Syoujiro, S.
AU - Isikawa, A.
AU - Kamakura, T.
AU - Matusbara, S.
AU - Wright, S.
PY - 2008/9/16
Y1 - 2008/9/16
N2 - It is hard to negate the effects of ocean waves on a synthetic aperture sonar that has to operate in the ocean, and many efforts against the ocean waves had been taken. One of the effort is motion compensation by calculating phase errors with computer. But the synthetic aperture algorithm with motion compensation is heavy, and remains difficult to be executed on real time. Thus, modified synthetic aperture algorithm is proposed in this paper. The algorithm, which is named 1.5-Dimensional algorithm, is in between 1-Dimensional and 2-Dimensional algorithm. The algorithm synthesizes an virtual aperture faster than the others, and has no phase error theoretically. The algorithm had been executed with raw sonar data acquired in a sea trial experimentally, and higher quality sonar images are generated successufully.
AB - It is hard to negate the effects of ocean waves on a synthetic aperture sonar that has to operate in the ocean, and many efforts against the ocean waves had been taken. One of the effort is motion compensation by calculating phase errors with computer. But the synthetic aperture algorithm with motion compensation is heavy, and remains difficult to be executed on real time. Thus, modified synthetic aperture algorithm is proposed in this paper. The algorithm, which is named 1.5-Dimensional algorithm, is in between 1-Dimensional and 2-Dimensional algorithm. The algorithm synthesizes an virtual aperture faster than the others, and has no phase error theoretically. The algorithm had been executed with raw sonar data acquired in a sea trial experimentally, and higher quality sonar images are generated successufully.
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U2 - 10.1109/OCEANSKOBE.2008.4530943
DO - 10.1109/OCEANSKOBE.2008.4530943
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:51449095741
SN - 9781424421268
T3 - OCEANS'08 MTS/IEEE Kobe-Techno-Ocean'08 - Voyage toward the Future, OTO'08
BT - OCEANS'08 MTS/IEEE Kobe-Techno-Ocean'08 - Voyage toward the Future, OTO'08
T2 - OCEANS'08 MTS/IEEE Kobe-Techno-Ocean'08 - Voyage toward the Future, OTO'08
Y2 - 9 April 2008 through 11 April 2008
ER -