Program Overview

Program Overview

The university program ESCI 874 - Integrated Seabed Mapping Systems is a 4-credit course that provides an overview of typical applications involving the mapping of the sediment-water interface in the ocean and adjacent waters.

Course Description

The course emphasizes defining task-specific resolution and accuracy requirements, and covers the fundamentals of acoustics relevant to seabed mapping. It progresses through typical configurations involving single beam, sidescan, phase differing, and multibeam systems. The integration of asynchronous 3D position, orientation, and sound speed measurements with sona-relative acoustic travel times and angles is also analyzed. Additionally, the course examines the impact of offsets, mis-alignments, and latency in all integrated sensors.

Prerequisites

• Two terms each of college calculus and physics are required.
• One year each of calculus and physics is required.
• Prerequisite(s): ESCI 870 (may be taken concurrently) with a minimum grade of B-.

Equivalent Courses

• OE 874

Grade Mode

The course uses Letter Grading.