� Why at all? Applications of multi-beam sonar: Abstract

• Main Authors: Olaf Boebel, Horst Bornemann, Monika Breitzke, Elke Burkhardt, Lars Kindermann, Holger Klinck, Joachim Plötz, Christoph Ruholl, Hans-werner Schenke
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Gakkel Ridge
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.70.8583; http://www.awi.de/acoustics/Publications/pubs/Boe2004c.pdf

Multibeam Sonar image of the wreck of the Lusitania Hydrosweep is used to map the topography of the ocean’s floor in 2-D and at a high resolution. Such data is crucial for several research fields and environmental studies within the oceanic environments: � To identify and map sites of environmental...