February 2007

SonarScope
Overview
Jean-Marie Augustin
Ifremer, Brest, France
Acoustics & Seismics Dept

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SonarScope : The sonar « photoshop »

Click right to access menu

and use « Author comments »

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SonarScope : Principal or complementary tool

Customer Bathymetry
DTM
processing

Sensor Raw data SonarScope GIS

logger

Customer Imagery Backscatter

processing mosaic

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SonarScope : Tree domains of application

• Quality control
• Data processing
• Help for interpretation

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SonarScope : Multilayer data

Beam #
Tx Sector

Incident
Range ; time ; sample#
angle

Depth Reflectivity

And also (e.g.) :

• Detection type (amplitude/phase)
• Transmit angle
• Mode, roll, pitch, heave…
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SonarScope : Example of multilayer data

Depth Reflectivity Tx Angle TxBeamIndex

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SonarScope : Quality Control

Artefacts

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SonarScope : Quality Control

Central
Tx beam

Limits of
Tx beams
Starboard
Port Tx beam Tx beam

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SonarScope : Quality Control

• Multi-layer statistics : mean of reflectivity vs Tx
Angle grouped by Tx sectors

Central Tx beam
Port Tx beam Starboard Tx beam

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SonarScope : Quality Control

Compensated image

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SonarScope : Quality Control

EM300 data, Calimero Grid size : 2,5 m

Raw Data Compensated Data

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SonarScope : Quality Control

• Multi-layer statistics : Bathymetry minus tilted plan
vs RxBeamIndex grouped by TxBeamIndex

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SonarScope : Data Processing

• An abstraction model for all MBES and
Sidescan sonars
Transmission beams
Reception beams
BS
TVG, NE, Insonified Area, etc …
• An abstraction model for sonar data
Geometry
Data information
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SonarScope : Data Processing

• All geometry transformations

PingBeam PingSwath PingSamples

LatLong GeoYX

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SonarScope : Swath overlap processing

• Each swath line is a mosaic image

• The Tx angle is « mosaicked »
• A pixel replaces another one only if the absolute value of
its transmission angle is lower than the resident pixel :
lines are separated by the iso-accuracy limit

Iso-accuracy limit Depth accuracy

(% of errors)

Line 1 Line 2 Line 3

Overlap area θ 15
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Transmission
angle mosaic

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DTM with
overlap
processing

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DTM without
overlap
processing

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SonarScope : Help for Interpretation

• Multiple format exportation, Free viewers,
WMS data importation
• Statistic compensations
• Calibration
• Signal processing
Speckle filtering
Texture analysis & segmentation
BS model
Sand ripples analysis
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SonarScope : Multiple input/output data formats

ErMapper Reson .s7k tif, jpg, bmp…
Caraibes
Kongsberg .all

IRAP
GMT
SonarScope

Fledermaus
(restricted) CFloor

WMS Servers Surfer

GoogleEarth Nasa worldWind
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SonarScope : GoogleEarth format

© Ifremer

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SonarScope : NasaWorldWind format

© Ifremer
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SonarScope : NasaWorldWind format

© Ifremer
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SonarScope : Statistic compensation

© NIWA, NZ 24
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SonarScope : Speckle filtering

Original Despeckled

Swansea wreck.
Klein 5500 sonar.
Courtesy of
DGA/GESMA

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SonarScope : Speckle filtering

Original Despeckled

Swansea wreck.
Klein 5500 sonar.
Courtesy of
DGA/GESMA

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SonarScope : Speckle filtering

Original Sar Image © Ifremer

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SonarScope : Speckle filtering

Original Sar Image © Ifremer

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SonarScope : Segmentation

Segmentation manuelle Segmentation variationnelle

(Axel Ehrhold Rebent project) τ=6,9% 29
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SonarScope : Segmentation

Segmentation manuelle Segmentation bayésienne

(Axel Ehrhold Rebent project) Tw = 7x7 τ=12,5% 30
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SonarScope : Segmentation

Segmentation manuelle Segmentation bayésienne

(Axel Ehrhold Rebent project) Tw = 33x33 τ=13% 31
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SonarScope : Segmentation

Dépendance angulaire du niveau d’énergie

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SonarScope : Segmentation

Dépendance angulaire de la texture

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SonarScope : Segmentation

Segmentation sans Segmentation avec

dépendance angulaire dépendance angulaire 34
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SonarScope : Reson-SAT2
•Reson 7150 24 kHz bathymetry : a forest of artefacts

© Ifremer
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SonarScope : Reson-SAT2
•Reson 7150 24 kHz bathymetry after a preliminary spike remover

© Ifremer
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SonarScope : External diffusion

• 2005-2006 : partnership agreements with

NIWA (New-Zealand)
CHS (Canada)
CIDCO (Canada)
SHOM (France)
ENST (France)
• 2007 : commercial product

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