Dead Sea Multi-beam Echo Sounder Survey
Abstract
The Dead Sea is the world’s lowest water body and among the saltiest (330ppt). To enable multi-beam coverage of this historical lake, ELAC Nautik took up the challenge of modifying their SeaBeam 1050 multi-beam to deal with extreme sound speeds by introducing a firmware ‘tweak’ changing the beamforming direction to account for a higher sound speed which was at that time not exactly known. While data acquisition was possible, initial results showed severe refraction issues that required a complicated procedure of ‘de-tweaking’ and re-computing.
Department
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
Publication Date
12-19-2011
Volume
15
Publication Title
Hydro International
Pages
21-23
Publisher
Geomares Publishing
Document Type
Journal Article
Recommended Citation
Beaudoin, Jonathan; Sade, Aharon; Schulze, Boris; and Hall, John K., "Dead Sea Multi-beam Echo Sounder Survey" (2011). Hydro International. 1064.
https://scholars.unh.edu/ccom/1064
Link to Full Text URL
http://www.hydro-international.com/content/article/dead-sea-multi-beam-echo-sounder-survey