Networking thtt World

Co-participants:

T!The Minerals, Metals,and Materials Society

Society ofExplorationGeophysicists

SAGUAmerican Geophysical

Union

The Women's

Aquatic NetworkThe Coasts, Oceans, Ports

and Rivers Institute

The American

Meteorological Society

The Oceanography

Society

UB/TIB Hannover 89

Field Test Data Distribution on CD-ROM UsingWorld Wide Web Technology 2306

Michele E. D'Anna-Decker, Ian M. Courtney, JeffreyL. Hanson, Larry H. White, and Kwadwo A. Yeboah,The Johns Hopkins University, Applied PhysicsLaboratory, Laurel, MD

Inormation Technology For Marine Data

Management ...2311

A.Vorontsov and N.Mikhailov, Russian ResearchInstitute of Hydrometeorological Information - World

Data Center, National Oceanographic Data Center of

Russia, Kaluga Reg., Russia

A Climate Data Portal 2315

Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/OAR/PMEL, Seattle, WA;Charles L. Sun, NOAA/NODC, Silver Spring, MD;Bernard J. Kilonsky, University of Hawaii, Honolulu,HI; Donald W. Denbo and Willa H. Zhu, Joint

Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean,University of Washington, Seattle, WA; John R.

Osborne, Java OceanAtlas Software, Inc.

Distributed Data Servers and Web Interface

in the Climate Data Portal 2318

Willa H. Zhu, Joint Institute for the Study of the

Atmosphere and Ocean, University of Washington,Seattle, WA

Data Telemetry for Ocean Bottom

Instrumentation.. 2322

Peter A. Koski, Jonathan Ware, and Daniel Frye,Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole,MA; S. Craig Cumbee, Naval Oceanographic Office,Stennis Space Center, MS

The Long-Term Marine Data Set Collectedby the National Data Buoy Center 2328

J. Michael Hemsley, Chief, Engineering BranchNational Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS

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Session 58

Electronic Chart Display and

Information SystemsSession Chair Nick Perugini

Chief of the Marine Chart Division,Office of Coast Survey

in NOAA's National Ocean Service

Session Co-Chair Harry M. StrongDirector,

Oceanic, Atmospheric and

Space Systems Programs,Mitretek Systems, Inc.,

McLean, VA

NOAA's Integrated Suite of Navigational Productsand Services 2336

Captain Nicholas E. Perugini, NOAA Office of CoastSurvey; Captain Maureen R. Kenny, NOAA Center for

Operational Oceanographic Products and Services;Captain Jonathan W. Bailey, NOAA National Geodetic

Survey National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD

Inland Electronic Navigational Charts in the

U. S. Army Corps of Engineers 2342

Robert G. Mann, Ph.D., U.S. Army Engineer Research

and Development Center, Topographic EngineeringCenter, Alexandria, VA

Multifunction ECDIS for the EmergenceCondition like a Breakdown of NavigationalEquipments 2348

J. Lee, D. Lee, D. Kim, I. Jung, T. Sim, S. Lee, and J.Bae, Technical Research Institute, Daeyang ElectricCo., Ltd., Pusan, South Korea; J. Chun, ScientificComputing Laboratory, Department of EECS,Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,Taejon, South Korea

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Session 59

Localization and TrackingSession Chair Stan Chamberlain

OES Technology Committee

Chairs Coordinator,Raytheon Company,

Tewksbury, MA

A Marine Mammal Acoustic Detection and

Localization Algorithm Using SpectrogramImage Correlation 2354

Brinda Ramaswamy, Pyrcon, LLC, Narragansett, Rl;Dr. Gopu R. Potty and Dr. James H. Miller,Department of Ocean Engineering, University of Rhode

Island, Narragansett, Rl

Wavefront Curvature Passive Ranging in

a Temporally Varying Sound PropagationMedium 2359

B. G. Ferguson, Maritime Operations Division, DSTO,NSW Australia; R. J. Wyber, Midspar Systems Pty.Ltd., Oyster Bay, NSW, Australia

Results from the Simulation of a DecoupledConcurrent Mapping and Localization

Technique 2366

J. D- Harris, II and R. N. Carpenter, Naval Undersea

Warfare Center, Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Division

Newport, Rl

Optical Flow Based Speed Estimation in

AUV Target Tracking 2377

Yang Fan and Arjuna Balasuriya, School of Electrical

and Electronic Engineering, Singapore

Optical and Navagational SensorFusion Scheme for Cable FollowingbyAUVS 2383

Arjuna Balasuriya, Nanyang Technological University,

Singapore; Tamaki Ura, University of Tokyo, Japan

Session 60

Marine Geology and GeophysicsSession Chair Dr. Mike Cruikshank

MMTC Associates,Honolulu, HI

Session Co-Chair

A Remote, Multi-Sensor Station to Monitor

Conditions Near the Sea Floor Within the

Hydrate Stability Zone ....2389

J. Robert Woolsey, Thomas M. McGee, and Robin

C. Buchannon, Center for Marine Resources and

Environmental Technology, The University of

Mississippi, University, MS

Design and Operation of a Pressure

Retaining Sampler for SedimentaryGases and Gas Hydrates ...2396

J. Erickson, P. Brewer, G. Friederich, and E. T.

Peltzer, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute,

Moss Landing, CA.

El Nino Tectonic Modulation

in the Pacific Basin 2400

Bruce A. Leybourne, Naval Oceanographic Office,

Geophysics Division, Stennis Space Center, MS;Michael B. Adams, Logicon Inc., MSRC Visualization

Center, Stennis Space Center, MS

Bathymetry Map Analysis Using Simulated

Annealing on a GIS Platform 2407

Afanu Basu and Iwona Maczkowska, Pacific

Mapping Program, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

Session 61

Air / Sea Interaction

Session Chair Prof. Rene Garello

ENST Bretagne, France

Field Measurement of the Aerial

Distribution of Sea-salt Particles

in Coastal Zone 2415

Masatoshi Katayama, Faculty of Engineering, KyushuKyoritsu University, Kitakyushu, Japan

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The Application of State-of-the-Art Oceanographicand Meteorological Forecasting Products to the

Hawaiian Islands .....2419

Robert C. Bohlin, Matthew C. Barron, and Renwick

M. Mohammed, Naval Pacific Meteorology and

Oceanography Center/Joint Typhoon Warning Center,Pearl Harbor, HI; James K. Lewis, Scientific Solutions,

Inc., Kalaheo, HI

On the Distribution of Small-Scale

Roughness at the Edges of Monomolecular

Surface Films 2425

Martin Gade and Philipp A. Lange, University of

Hamburg, Institute of Oceanography, Hamburg,Germany

Mobile Bay Response to a Strong AutumnCold Front Passage ,

2432

Richard L. Crout and Arne R. Diercks, Naval

Meteorology and Oceanography Command Ocean

Technologies, Stennis Space Center, MS

Session 62

Coastal Zone ManagementSession Chair Harry M. Strong

Director, Oceanic, Atmosphericand Space Systems Programs,

Mitretek Systems, Inc.,

McLean, VA

Adapting An Enhanced Multiple Database

Integration and Update Capability to SupportCoastal Operations 2436C. R. Nichols, Marine Information Resources

Corporation, Ellicott City, MD;P.T. Brennan and S. J. Cento, Northrop Grumman

Corporation, Bethpage, NY;K. R. Dedrick, Marine Information Resources

Corporation, Ellicott City, MD;G. H. Tuell, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

The New National Coastal Data DevelopmentCenter 2445

Joe Stinus, NOAA/Nationa! Coastal Data

Development Center, Stennis Space Center, MS;Fred Klein and Amy Sheridan, Mitretek Systems,McLean, MS

Session 63

Buoy / Mooring TechnologySession Chair Walter Paul

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution,Woods Hole, MA

Dynamic Analysis of NDBC Shallow-Water Test

Mooring , , ....2449

Mark Grosenbaugh, Woods Hole OceanographicInstitution, Woods Hole, MA; Chung-Chu Teng,National Data Buoy Center, Stennis Space Center, MS

An Optical Positioning System for Underwater

Arrays 2454

Richard D. Dittman, Marentec, Dartmouth, Nova

Scotia, Canada; Francine Desharnais and Garry J.

Heard, Defence Research Establishment Atlantic,

Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada

New Trawl-Resistant Bottom Mount to

Support Hydrographic Current Measurement

Requirements 2459

S. Craig Cumbee, Naval Oceanographic Office

Stennis Space Center, MS; Peter Clay, MooringSystems, Inc., Cataumet, MA

MELBA Mediterranean LagrangianBuoy Appliance ....2464

Fiorello Cavallini, Daniele Maffei, and Ramiro

dell'Erba, Italian National Agency for New Technology,Energy and Environment (ENEA), Division of Robotics

and Information Technology, Rome

Overview of Ocean Based Buoysand Drifters: Present Applicationsand Future Needs 2470

Nancy N. Soreide, NOAA/PMEL, Seattle, WA;Catherine E. Woody, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis SpaceCenter, MS; Stephen M. Holt, Mitretek Systems, Inc.,McLean, VA

Communications and Power to the Seafloor:

MBARI's Ocean Observing System

Mooring Concept 2473

Mark Chaffey and Ed Mellinger, MBARI, Moss

Landing, CA; Walter Paul, Woods Hole OceanographicInstitution, Woods Hole, MA

MBARI Vertical Profiler 2482

Mark Brown, Mike Kelley, and Paul McGill

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss

Landing, CA

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Session 64

Metrology and Calibration

(Signal Processing)Session Chair Stu Burley

U.S. Navy Pacific Missile RangeKauai

Array Calibration Based on Inverse

Subspace Fitting 2486C.R. Wan, School of Electrical and Electronic

Engineering, Nanyang Technological University,Singapore; J.T. Goh and C.S. Chia, DSO National

Laboratories, Singapore

AWOCE CTD Calibration Laboratory NewlyEstablished In China 2492

Houlong Yu and Zhaoji Jia, Institute of Ocean

Technology, State Oceanic Administration of China,Tianjin, China

Multibeam Sonar Calibration: Removal

of Static Surface Reverberation byCoherent Echo Subtraction ...2498

Dezhang Chu, and Kenneth G. Foote, Woods Hole

Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA; Kenneth

C. Baldwin and Larry A. Mayer, Center for Ocean

Engineering, Chase Ocean Engineering Laboratory,

University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; Yanchao

Li, Department of Geodesy and Geomatics

Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton,New Brunswick, Canada; Gary D. Melvin, Marine Fish

Division, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, St.

Andrews Biological Station, St. Andrews, NB Canada

Calibrating a Narrowband 18-kHz

Sonar 2503

Kenneth G. Foote, Woods Hole OceanographicInstitution, Woods Hole, MA

Multibeam Sonar Calibration: TargetLocalization in Azimuth 2506

Dezhang Chu, and Kenneth G. Foote, Woods Hole

Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA;Kenneth C. Baldwin and Larry A. Mayer, Center for

Ocean Engineering, Chase Ocean EngineeringLaboratory, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH;Yanchao Li, Department of Geodesy and Geomatics

Engineering, University of New Brunswick, New

Brunswick, Canada; Gary D. Melvin, Marine Fish

Division, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, St.

Andrews Biological Station, St. Andrews, NB, Canada

CCD Camera Calibration for UnderwaterLaser Scanning System 2511

C. C. Wang, H. C. Hsu, J. S. Sue, and T. C. Huang,Institute of Undersea Technology;S. W. Shyue, Department of Marine Environment and

Engineering, National Sun Yat-sen University,Kao-Hsiung, Taiwan

Session 65

Seafloor Properties/EngineeringSession Chair Captain C. W. Green

Fleet Oceanographer, U.S. Navy,Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Analysis of Small Scale Bedforms with 2D and 3D

Image Acquisition Techniques 2518

S. Baglio, Dipartimento Elettrico Elettronico e

Sistemistico, University of Catania, Catania, Italy;C. Faraci, E. Foti, and R. Musumeci, Dipartimento di

Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale, University of Catania,

Catania, Italy

Small Scale Seafloor Roughness Measurement

Using a ROV 2525

N. P. Chotiros, J. N. Piper, J. Moore and D. F. Weigl,Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas

at Austin, Texas

Session 66

Matched Fields (Acoustics)Session Chair Stan Chamberlain

OES TechnologyCommittee Chairs Coordinator,

Raytheon Company,Tewksbury, MA

High-frequency Source Localization in the

Strait of Sicily ,2530

Cristiano Scares, and S.M. Jesus, Universidade do

Algarve, Faro, Portugal; Martin Siderius, Science

Applications International Corp., La Jolla, CA

"Real Time" Broadband Adaptive Matched Field

Processing 2536

Herbert Freese, David Gever, Richard Evans, Brian

Sperry, and Rob Greene, Science ApplicationsInternational Corporation, McLean VA;

D.J. Fabozzi, Maui Supercomputer Center, Kehei, HI

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WWW-based High Performance ComputingSupport of Acoustic Matched Field

Processing 2541

D.H.Gever, Science Applications International

Corporation; D.J.Fabozzi, II, Maui High Performance

Computing Center, Kehei, HI

Session 67

Non-Acoustic Imaging(Signal and Information)

Session Chair Dr. Richard H. Nadolink

Chief Technology Officer, NUWC,

Newport, Rl

Identification of Influential Factors forUnderwater Laser Imaging 2549

Hsin-Hung Chen, Institute of Undersea TechnologyNational Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Underwater Mosaicing and TrajectoryReconstruction Using Global

Alignment 2557

Nuno Gracias and Jose Santos-Victor,Instituto Superior T'ecnico & Instituto de Sistemas e

Rob'otica, Lisboa Codex, Portugal

Extracting Robust Features and 3-D

Reconstruction in Underwater

Images 2564

Francois-Xavier Espiau, Patrick Rives, iFREMER

Toulon, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, Icare Project, France

A System to Evaluate the Accuracy of a Visual

Mosaicking Methodology 2570

R. Garcia, J. Batlle, and X. Cufi, Computer Vision and

Robotics Group, University of Girona, Spain

3-D Mapping of Sea Floor Scenes by Stereo

Imaging 2577

A. Khamene, H. Madjidi, and S. Negahdaripour,Siemens Corporate Research Underwater Vision

Imaging Lab, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

Positioning and Photo-Mosaicking with LongImage Sequences; Comparison of SelectedMethods 2584

S. Negahdaripour and P. Firoozfam, UnderwaterVision & Imaging Laboratory, Electrical & ComputerEngineering Department, University of Miami, Coral

Gables, FL

Utilizing Panoramic Views for VisuallyGuided Tasks in Underwater Robotics

Applications 2593

S. Negahdaripour, H. Zhang, P. Firoozfam, and J.

Oles, Underwater Vision & Imaging Laboratory,Electrical & Computer Engineering Department,University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

A New Algorithm to Calculate the

Reference Image of Ship Targets for ATR

Using ISAR 2601

K. Yamamoto and M. Iwamoto, Member, IEEE,T. Kirimoto, Member, IEEE, Mitsubishi Electric

Corporation, Japan

Session 68

Acoustic Sediment CharacterizationSession Chair Jon Preston

Quester Tangent Corporation,

Sidney, BC, Canada

A Method for the Analysis of ChirpSignals Insonifying Layered Media forSub-bottom Profiling 2608

I. R. Stevenson, P. Nicholson, L. M. Linnett, and S.

Morrison, Fortkey Ltd., Edinburgh, Scotland

Seabed Classification of Multibeam

Sonar Images ..2616

J.M. Preston, A.C. Christney, S. F. Bloomer, and

I.L. Beaudet, Quester Tangent Corporation, Sidney,BC, Canada

Acoustic and Physical Property Correlation of

Marine Sediments from the Texas-LouisianaContinental Shelf 2624

Traci L. Stokes, Naval Oceanographic Office, Ocean

Analysis Branch, Stennis Space Center, MS;Dean A. Dunn, University of Southern Mississippi,Department of Geology, Hattiesburg, MS

High-Resolution Geophysical Core

Logging Data from Marine Sediment

Core Samples 2634

Carter L. Gehman and Gene V. Kelly,Naval Oceanographic Office, Laboratories Services

Branch, Stennis Space Center, MS

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Benthic Habitat Mapping with Acoustic Seabed

Classification 2642

James L. Galloway, P. Eng., Canadian HydrographicService, Pacific Fisheries and Oceans Canada, SidneyB.C., Canada

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Genetic Algorithm Optimisation of a

Supply Ship Propulsion and

Navigation Systems 2645

Eva Alfaro-Cid, Euan W. McGookin, and David J.

Murray-Smith, Centre of Systems and Control & Dept.of Electronics and Electrical Engineering,

University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

Marine Sediment Classification UsingSidescan Sonar and GeographicalInformation System Software in

Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii 2653

Andreas J. Andersson, School of Ocean and Earth

Science and Technology, University of Hawai'i,

Honolulu, HI; Tom B. Reed, IV, Oceanic ImagingConsultants, Inc., Honolulu, HI; Christopher D. Winn,Hawaii Pacific University, Marine Science Program,Honolulu, HI

Effectiveness of Spatial-TemporalCollocated Microwave Scatterometric

and Vertical-Horizontal Polarized

Radiometric Images in Sea Surface

Monitoring 2658

Arsen Arakelyan, Faculty of Biochemistry, Yerevan

State University, Yerevan, Armenia;

A.K.Hambaryan and A.K.Arakelian, ECOSERV

Remote Observation Centre Co. Ltd., Yerevan,Armenia

An Hybrid Methodology for RL-based

Behavior Coordination in a Target

Following Mission with an AUV 2666

M. Carrerasand J. Batlle, Institute of Informatics and

Automation University of Girona, Edifici Politecnica II,

Campus Montihvi, Spam; J. Yuh, Autonomous Systems

Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI

A Wavelet Packet Approach for Bistatic Buried

Target Classification with an AUV-borne

Synthetic Aperture Sonar 2673

Joseph R. Edwards, Massachusetts Institute of

Technology, Department of Ocean Engineering;Monica Montanari, University of Pisa, Department of

Information Engineering

Development of Ecological Policy, Assessment and

Prediction of the Fate of Chernobyl Radionuclides

in Sediments of the Black Sea 2677

Alexei E. Kontar, P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology,Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Highlighting Pipelines Offshore

Norway: Visualization and

Quantitative Analysis 2688

R.E. Loke and J.M.H. du Buf, Vision Laboratory, Dept.of Electronics and Computer Science, University of

Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Differences in Olfactory System Between

Wild and Cultured Red Sea Bream,

Pagrus major (Teleostei) 2696

R. R. Mana, G. Kawamura, K. Anraku, T. Matsuoka,and T. Masuda, Laboratory of Fish Ethology,

Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan

The Design, Construction, and Testing of a

Flexible Fin Propelled Autonomous

Underwater Vehicle 2703

Ryan Moody, North Carolina State University,

Integrated Manufacturing Systems EngineeringInstitute, Raleigh, NC

Analysis of Non-Coherent Signalingin Surf Zone Acoustic Telemetry

Experiments , 2708

Tetsuro Oishi, Research Associate, Acoustics

Research Laboratory, Univ. of Massachusetts

Dartmouth, N. Dartmouth, MA; Dale Green,

Principle Engineer, Benthos Inc., North Falmouth, MA

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