Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS): A new Towed Camera/Sonar System for Deep-Sea Habitat Surveys
Towed camera systems are commonly used to collect photo and video images of the deep seafloor for a wide variety of purposes, from pure exploratory research to the development of management plans. Ongoing technological developments are increasing the quantity and quality of data collected from the d...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:46560 2023-05-15T15:09:37+02:00 Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS): A new Towed Camera/Sonar System for Deep-Sea Habitat Surveys Purser, Autun Marcon, Yann Dreutter, Simon Hoge, Ulrich Sablotny, Burkhard Hehemann, Laura Lemburg, Johannes Dorschel, Boris Biebow, Harald Boetius, Antje 2018 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46560/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46560/1/Purser_etal_2018.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.da1678ed-b2c3-4015-ae89-ba3a7f6723a6 https://hdl.handle.net/ unknown IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46560/1/Purser_etal_2018.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/ Purser, A. , Marcon, Y. orcid:0000-0002-1686-8045 , Dreutter, S. orcid:0000-0002-0878-0780 , Hoge, U. , Sablotny, B. , Hehemann, L. , Lemburg, J. orcid:0000-0002-7356-964X , Dorschel, B. orcid:0000-0002-3495-5927 , Biebow, H. and Boetius, A. orcid:0000-0003-2117-4176 (2018) Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS): A new Towed Camera/Sonar System for Deep-Sea Habitat Surveys , IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering . doi:10.1109/JOE.2018.2794095 <https://doi.org/10.1109/JOE.2018.2794095> , hdl:10013/epic.da1678ed-b2c3-4015-ae89-ba3a7f6723a6 EPIC3IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, ISSN: 0364-9059 Article peerRev 2018 ftawi https://doi.org/10.1109/JOE.2018.2794095 2021-12-24T15:43:38Z Towed camera systems are commonly used to collect photo and video images of the deep seafloor for a wide variety of purposes, from pure exploratory research to the development of management plans. Ongoing technological developments are increasing the quantity and quality of data collected from the deep seafloor. Despite these improvements, the area of seafloor, which towed systems can survey, optically remains limited by the rapid attenuation of visible wavelengths within water. We present an overview of a new towed camera platform integrating additional acoustical devices: the ocean floor observation and bathymetry system (OFOBS). The towed system maintains continuous direct communication via fiber optic cable with a support vessel, operational at depths up to 6000 m. In addition to collecting seafloor photo and video data, OFOBS gathers sidescan data over a 100-m swath width. OFOBS functionality is further augmented by a forward looking sonar, used to aid in hazard avoidance and real-time course correction. Data collected during the first field deployments of OFOBS, at a range of seamounts on the Langseth Ridge/Gakkel Ridge intersection (86° N, 61° E) in the high Arctic in September 2016, are presented to demonstrate the functionality of the system. Collected from a location with near continuous ice cover, this explanatory data set highlights the advantages of the system for deep-sea survey work in environments currently difficult to access for the majority of subsurface research platforms. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) Arctic Gakkel Ridge ENVELOPE(90.000,90.000,87.000,87.000) Langseth ENVELOPE(15.668,15.668,68.338,68.338) IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering 44 1 87 99 |
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Towed camera systems are commonly used to collect photo and video images of the deep seafloor for a wide variety of purposes, from pure exploratory research to the development of management plans. Ongoing technological developments are increasing the quantity and quality of data collected from the deep seafloor. Despite these improvements, the area of seafloor, which towed systems can survey, optically remains limited by the rapid attenuation of visible wavelengths within water. We present an overview of a new towed camera platform integrating additional acoustical devices: the ocean floor observation and bathymetry system (OFOBS). The towed system maintains continuous direct communication via fiber optic cable with a support vessel, operational at depths up to 6000 m. In addition to collecting seafloor photo and video data, OFOBS gathers sidescan data over a 100-m swath width. OFOBS functionality is further augmented by a forward looking sonar, used to aid in hazard avoidance and real-time course correction. Data collected during the first field deployments of OFOBS, at a range of seamounts on the Langseth Ridge/Gakkel Ridge intersection (86° N, 61° E) in the high Arctic in September 2016, are presented to demonstrate the functionality of the system. Collected from a location with near continuous ice cover, this explanatory data set highlights the advantages of the system for deep-sea survey work in environments currently difficult to access for the majority of subsurface research platforms. |
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Purser, Autun Marcon, Yann Dreutter, Simon Hoge, Ulrich Sablotny, Burkhard Hehemann, Laura Lemburg, Johannes Dorschel, Boris Biebow, Harald Boetius, Antje Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS): A new Towed Camera/Sonar System for Deep-Sea Habitat Surveys |
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Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS): A new Towed Camera/Sonar System for Deep-Sea Habitat Surveys |
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Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS): A new Towed Camera/Sonar System for Deep-Sea Habitat Surveys |
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Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS): A new Towed Camera/Sonar System for Deep-Sea Habitat Surveys |
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Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS): A new Towed Camera/Sonar System for Deep-Sea Habitat Surveys |
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Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS): A new Towed Camera/Sonar System for Deep-Sea Habitat Surveys |
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ocean floor observation and bathymetry system (ofobs): a new towed camera/sonar system for deep-sea habitat surveys |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46560/1/Purser_etal_2018.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/ Purser, A. , Marcon, Y. orcid:0000-0002-1686-8045 , Dreutter, S. orcid:0000-0002-0878-0780 , Hoge, U. , Sablotny, B. , Hehemann, L. , Lemburg, J. orcid:0000-0002-7356-964X , Dorschel, B. orcid:0000-0002-3495-5927 , Biebow, H. and Boetius, A. orcid:0000-0003-2117-4176 (2018) Ocean Floor Observation and Bathymetry System (OFOBS): A new Towed Camera/Sonar System for Deep-Sea Habitat Surveys , IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering . doi:10.1109/JOE.2018.2794095 <https://doi.org/10.1109/JOE.2018.2794095> , hdl:10013/epic.da1678ed-b2c3-4015-ae89-ba3a7f6723a6 |
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