Workshop "Seabed Acoustics" 2011

Since 2001 Innomar hosts the workshop "Seabed Acoustics". The 5^th workshop took place November 17^th - 18^th, 2011 in Rostock-Warnemünde (Germany).

Thanks to all of the more than 100 attendees for coming and to the speakers giving presentations on a wide range of applications. During the breaks and dinner there were many opportunities to exchange experiences and for networking.
At the second day ther was a live demo of different survey eqipment on a river boat.

There were presentations given on a wide range of applications of underwater acoustic equipment:

• high-resolution sub-bottom profiling,
• acoustics for in- and offshore installations (pre-site investigations, pipeline inspection, risk mitigation, etc.),
• using various acoustic profiling systems simultaneously, e.g. sub-bottom profiler, multibeam, sidescan sonar,
• underwater archaeology,
• underwater acoustic signal and image processing,
• acoustic seafloor characterization.

Coffee breaks and dinner were used for networking and to exchange experiences:

During the second day equipment of different manufacturers was shown in operation on a river boat:

• Innomar SES-2000 light plus sub-bottom profiler and sidescan sonar,
• Innomar SES-2000 compact sub-bottom profiler (new generation 2011),
• L3 ELAC Nautik multibeam echosounder 1180,
• Ship Motion Control (SMC) motion (HRP) sensor IMU-108.

It should be mentioned that all acoustic equipment (SBP, sidescan and MBES) was operated simultaneously without any interference visible in the data sets.

Transducers (MBES left and SBP/sidescan right) mounted on a pole over the side of the vessel. On top of the pole the SMC motion sensor (right-hand picture) is placed.

People showed much interest in the equipment shown during the demo.

SES-2000 light plus (left) and compact (right, not in use on the picture) during the live demo.

Thanks to all people who made this workshop a success!