The design and operating principles of the laser sounder developed for use in airborne coastal-zone bathymetric surveys with a U.S. Navy P-3 aircraft are described and illustrated with diagrams. The sounder components are listed and characterized, including the Nd:YAG transmitter (operating at 532 nm for bottom ranging and 1.064 microns for surface ranging), the scanning transceiver, the 10 x 6-inch-aperture controlled-FOV receiver/digitizer, the constant-fraction discriminator, the time-to-digital converter, the navigation and data-recording subsystems, and the parallel distributed processing computer (comprising a data collection and control system and a real-time processing system). Consideration is also given to the phase-I and phase-II data-reduction software being developed to process the approximately 228 million soundings to be obtained annually. The sounder can be used day or night to sound clear ocean water up to 20 m deep.
A laser sounder for U.S. Navy helicopters
1987-01-01
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Englisch
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