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Conference Program Sunday, June 24th 15:00-18:00 18:00-21:00 Registration Ice Breaking Party Monday, June 25th 09:00-09:30 Registration Opening Ceremony Location: Amphitheatre, Date 25/6/2007, 09:30 – 10:00 Plenary Lecture Location: Amphitheatre, Date 25/6/2007 Chair: John S. Papadakis 10:00-10:45 Professor Nick Makris, Dept. Ocean Engineering, MIT, USA. Continuously monitoring fish populations over continental-shelf scales with Ocean Acoustic Waveguide Remote Sensing (OAWRS) 10:45–11:00 Break Nick Makris Structured Session 11a: Sonar Calibration Organizers: Kirk E. Jenne and Stephen Robinson - JenneK@onr.navy.mil Location: Amphitheatre – Date 25/6/2007, 11:00 – 13:00 Chair: Kirk E. Jenne 11:00– 11:20 Victor F. Humphrey, Stephen P. Robinson, Pete D. Theobald, Martin P. Cooling. (Invited) Characterization of high frequency, high amplitude sonar fields using optical measurement of transducer surface velocity 11:20– 11:40 Yuebing Wang, Yi Chen (Invited) Method for calibrating plural sensitivity of hydrophones using a laser interferometer 11:40– 12:00 M.J. Martin, C.T. Hugin, S. Robinson, G. Beamiss G. Hayman, J. Smith, V. Humphrey (Invited) The low frequency characterisation of underwater material properties in a pressure vessel via single, dual and multiple hydrophone techniques. 12:00– 12:20 Stephen Robinson, Pete Theobald, Victor Humphrey, Gary Hayman, Martin Cooling (Invited) Mapping the acoustic field produced by high frequency sonar transducers using optical tomographic techniques 12:20– 12:40 Robert Drake, Steve Forsythe (Invited) Low Frequency Hydrophone Calibration in a Standing/Traveling Wave Tube 12:40-13:00 Alexander E. Isaev (Invited) A method to estimate an effective area of the underwater acoustic measuring module under calibration in 1/n-octave frequency band Alexander E. Isaev Robert Drake Stephen Robinson M.J. Martin Yuebing Wang Victor F. Humphrey Structured Session 13a: Bubble acoustics Organizers: Tim Leighton and Gary Heald tgl@soton.ac.uk and gjheald@dstl.gov.uk Location: Lecture Room 1 – Date 25/6/2007, 11:00-13:00 Chair: Tim Leighton 11:00-11:20 Theodore F. Argo IV, Preston S. Wilson (Invited) The linear acoustic behavior of a bubble confined between parallel plates 11:20-11:40 Zygmunt (Invited) Klusek, Jaromir Jakacki Zygmunt Klusek Theodore F. Argo IV The nonlinear two-frequencies counting of bubbles population. Opportunities and constrains 11:40-12:00 Georges Chahine, Xiongjun Wu, Michel Tanguay, James Perea Development of a user-friendly instrument for nuclei measurement: the ABS acoustic bubble spectrometer 12:00-12:20 Thomas C. Weber, Anthony P. Lyons, David L. Bradley Identifying bubble clustering: comparisons of the coherent and incoherent fields 12:20-12:40 D. G. H. Coles, T. G. Leighton Autonomous spar-buoy measurements of bubble populations under breaking waves in the Sea of the Hebrides 12:40-13:00 Pieter Schippers Analysis of Target Strength variation; results of a realistic wake echo structure model compared with side scan sonar pictures Pieter Schippers D. G. H. Coles Thomas C. Weber Georges Chahine Structured Session 4: Asian acoustic sea experiments and simulation results Organizer: Chi-fang Chen - chifang@ntu.edu.tw Location: Lecture Room 2 – Date 25/6/2007, 11:00-12:40 Chair: Chifang Chen, Y.J Yang 11:00-11:20 Yiing Jang Yang, Ming-Huei Chang, Tswen Yung Tang (Invited) Internal solitary-like wave measurements from sonar with in-situ and remote sensing data in the northern South China Sea 11:20-11:40 Barry B. Ma (Invited) Acoustic Detection and Measurement of Intermittent Rainfall At Little-Ryukyu Taiwan (ADMIRAL-Taiwan) 11:40-12:00 Hsiang-Chih Chan, Ruey-Chang Wei, ChiFang Chen (Invited) The wind-wave noise variation analysis in northern South China Sea 12:00-12:20 Linus Y. S. Chiu, Yuan-Ying Chang, ChiFang Chen (Invited) Analysis of Acoustic Mode and Variation in the South China Sea 12:20-12:40 its Chris Emerson Linus Y. S. Chiu Hsiang-Chih Chan Barry B. Ma Yiing Jang Yang Chris Emerson, Philip Abbot, Charles Gedney, Glen Gawarkiewicz, Ching-Sang Chiu, ChiFang Chen, Ruey Wei (Invited) Acoustic Propagation Uncertainty in the Shallow South China Sea Structured Session 23: The role of underwater acoustics in Marine Archaeology Organizer: Tufan Turanli - tufan@tezek.com Location: Lecture Room 3 – Date 25/6/2007, 11:00-12:20 Chair: Tunkay Akal 11:00-11:20 Jim Goold Multibeam in Extended Archaeological Survey Use 11:20-11:40 Kazuhiro Hantani, Tufan Turanli, Akira Yoshizawa, Shunichi Fujishima, Yoshinori Matsumoto, Yusuke Sugimoto, Yorio Hamaguchi, Keiichiro Kondo, Randall J. Sasaki (Invited) The archaeological research for the excavation of "Ertugrul" with the Multibeam Echo Sounder 11:40-12:00 Fantina Madricardo, Sandra Donnici, Silvano Buogo, Paola Calicchia, Alberto Lezziero Acoustical prospecting in extremely shallow water for palaeo-environmental reconstruction in the Lagoon of Venice 12:00-12:20 Enrico Armelloni, Angelo Farina, Michele Zanolin Low-frequency not-impulsive sonar technique for detecting objects buried under sediment 13:00–14:30 Lunch Enrico Armelloni Fantina Madricardo Kazuhiro Hantani Jim Goold Structured Session 11b: Sonar Calibration Organizers: Kirk E. Jenne and Stephen Robinson - JenneK@onr.navy.mil Location: Amphitheatre – Date 25/6/2007, 14:30-16:10 Chair: Stephen Robinson 14:30-14:50 Alexander E. Isaev, Anton N. Matveyev The effective size and effective frequency band of the measuring water tank at ‘free-field’ calibration with use the continuous radiation mode 14:50-15:10 Peter Theobald, Stephen Robinson A comparison of free-field calibration techniques for hydrophones using the reciprocity and optical methods 15:10-15:30 Gary Hayman, Peter Theobald, Gary Robb, Stephen Robinson, Victor Humphrey, Timothy Leighton, Justin Dix, Angus Best Hydrophone performance in sediment 15:30-15:50 P. Pocwiardowski, G. Yufit, E. Maillard Effects of vessel pitch and roll on a seabed backscattering strength estimation 15:50-16:10 Victor Quintino, Ana Maria Rodrigues, Rosa Freitas Identification and characterization of benthic biotopes using single beam P. Pocwiardowski Peter Theobald Anton N. Matveyev Peter Theobald Rosa Freitas Structured Session 13b: Bubble acoustics Organizers: Tim Leighton and Gary Heald tgl@soton.ac.uk and gjheald@dstl.gov.uk Location: Lecture Room 1 – Date 25/6/2007, 14:30-16:30 Chair: Tim Leighton 14:30-14:50 Timothy G. Leighton, Daniel C. Finfer, Paul R. White (Invited) Sonar which penetrates bubble clouds 14:50-15:10 Richard Lee Culver, Mario F. Trujillo (Invited) Measuring and modeling bubbles in ship wakes, and their effect on acoustic propagation 15:10-15:30 Michael A. Ainslie, Timothy G. Leighton The influence of radiation damping on through-resonance variation in the scattering cross-section of gas bubbles 15:30-15:50 A. Mantouka, T. G. Leighton, V. F. Humphrey Enhancement of nonlinearity parametric sonar using bubbles 15:50-16:10 Tim Leighton, Dan Grover, Paul White Finfer, and Tim Leighton Michael A. Ainslie Richard Lee Culver Timothy G. Leighton A. Mantouka Edward Spiral bubble nets of humpback whales: an acoustic mechanism 16:10-16:30 TsungMo Tien, Chien-Hsun Lee, ChingJer Hung, Tai-Wen Hsu Study of bubble size distribution for waves propagating over a submerged breakwater Chien-Hsun Lee Regular Session V: Underwater communication Location: Lecture Room 2 - Date: 25/6/2007, 14:30-15:50 Chair: David Bradley 14:30-14:50 Konstantin G. Kebkal, Kebkal, Rudolf Bannasch Alexey G. Konstantin G. Kebkal Performance of a S2C Acoustic Modem in Horizontal Underwater Acoustic Channels 14:50-15:10 Hiroshi Ochi, Yoshitaka Takuya Shimura Watanabe, Hiroshi Ochi Short Range Wideband Acoustic Communication Using QPSK and 8PSK. 15:10-15:30 Takuya Shimura, Yoshitaka Watanabe and Hiroshi Ochi Research on long horizontal timereversal communication in deep ocean 15:30-15:50 Antonio J. Silva, Sergio M. Jesus Joγo P. Gomes Passive Time Reversal Probe-Signal Capture Optimization for Underwater Communications Antonio J. Silva Takuya Shimura Regular Session Ia: Bioacoustics – Fisheries Location: Lecture Room 3 – Date: 25/6/2007, 14:30 – 16:30 Chair: Marek Moszynski 14:30-14:50 Olavi Kaljuste, Faust Shvetsov, Guntars Strods, Viesturs Berzinsh Acoustical studies on geographical distribution pattern of the Gulf of Riga herring population. 14:50-15:10 Ole Nicolai Staurland Aarbakke, Hans Petter Knudsen, Egil Ona Acoustic characterization of sound scattering layers over hydrothermal vents in the Arctic Ocean by the use of a multifrequency acoustic probe 15:10-15:30 Lucio Calise, Korneliussen Tor Knutsen, Rolf Ole Nicolai Staurland Aarbakke Olavi Kaljuste, Guntars Strods Lucio Calise The impact of echo sounder settings for the discrimination of acoustic scatterers in a multi-frequency survey context 15:30-15:50 Kazuo Amakasu, Koki Abe, Kazuhiro Sadayasu, Kouichi Sawada, Yoshimi Takao, Ken Ishii Target strength measurements of Japanese anchovy with keeping swimbladder shape 15:50-16:10 Kazuo Amakasu Ester Soliveres, Víctor Espinosa, Javier Victor Espinosa Redondo, Eva Escuder, Jesús Alba, Miguel Ardid, Vicente D. Estruch, Silvia Martínez, Ana Tomás, Miguel Jover Acoustical study of the gilt-head sea bream in a reverberating tank 16:10-16:30 Hector Pena Methods for 3D swimbladder morphology reconstruction for target strength modelling Hector Pena 16:30–16:50 Coffee Break Structured Session 11c: Sonar Calibration Organizers: Kirk E. Jenne and Stephen Robinson - JenneK@onr.navy.mil Location: Amphitheatre – Date 25/6/2007, 16:50-17:50 Chair: Victor Humphrey 16:50-17:10 M. Ardid, M. Bou-Cabo, V. Espinosa Acoustic detection of neutrinos and M. Ardid generation of neutrino-like signals by transducers 17:10-17:30 Egil Ona, Frank Ticky, Ruben Patel Calibrating a 200 kHz pressure-stabilized split beam transducer 17:30-17:50 Roy Edgar Hansen, Per Espen Hagen, Øivind Midtgaard SAS and Side Scan Sonar systems compared: Experimental results from HUGIN AUV Roy Edgar Hansen Egil Ona Structured Session 2: Acoustic measurements with moored and autonomous array systems Organizer: William Carey - wcarey@bu.edu Location: Lecture Room 1 – Date 25/6/2007, 16:50-18:10 Chair: William Carey 16:50-17:10 Harry A. DeFerrari (Invited) Measurements of Acoustic Propagation on Shallow Shelves Inside of Western Boundary Currents 17:10-17:30 Jason D. Holmes, William M. Carey, James F. Lynch (Invited) Recent experimental results using an autonomous vehicle towed array system 17:30-17:50 Timothy Duda, Jon Collis (Invited) Acoustic field coherence in fourdimensionally variable shallow water environments: Estimation using colocated horizontal and vertical line arrays 17:50-18:10 Edmund Sullivan (Invited) A Generalized Cramer-Rao Lower Bound for Bearing Estimation Using a Moving Array Edmund Sullivan Harry A. DeFerrari Jason D. Holmes, William M. Carey Jon Collis Regular Session Ib: Bioacoustics – Fisheries Location: Lecture Room 3 – Date: 25/6/2007, 16:50-18:10 Chair: Nick Makris 16:50-17:10 D. C. Finfer, P. R. White, T. G. Leighton Biological sources of ambient noise in the NE Atlantic Ocean 17:10-17:30 Rolf J Korneliussen, Anne LebourgesDhaussy, Tor Knutsen Estimation of size and type of zooplankton by the use of operational post-processing systems 17:30-17:50 Marek Moszynski, Egil Ona Fish size distribution multifrequency acoustic data 17:50-18:10 from Miles Parsons Marek Moszynski Rolf J Korneliussen D. C. Finfer Miles Parsons, Rob McCauley, Mike Mackie The use of passive techniques to evaluate a spawning aggregation of mulloway (Argyrosomus japonicus) Tuesday, June 26th Plenary Lecture Location: Amphitheatre, Date 26/6/2007 Chair: Finn Jensen 09:00-09:45 Professor Hiroyuki Hachiya, Chiba University, Japan. Ocean Acoustic Tomography Experiments in Japan. Hiroyuki Hachiya Structured Session 7a: Bioacoustics Organizer: Olav Rune Godø - olavrune@imr.no Location: Lecture Room 1 – Date 26/6/2007, 09:45-10:45 Chair: Olav Rune Godø 09:45-10:05 Nils Olav Handegard (Invited) Observing the behaviour of single individual aquatic organisms from acoustic platforms’ methods and models 10:05-10:25 Ruben Patel, Egil Ona, Lars Nonboe Andersen, Hans Petter Knudsen (Invited) Detailed fish school analysis using the 3D multibeam sonar MS70 10:25-10:45 Jeffrey A Nystuen, Bradley Hanson, Candice Emmons Listening for killer whales in the coastal waters of the NE Pacific Ocean Jeffrey A Nystuen Nils Olav Handegard Ruben Patel 10:45–11:00 Coffee Break Structured Session 18a: Habitat mapping and underwater acoustics Organizers: Nick Pace and Philippe Blondel ngpace@yahoo.com and P.Blondel@bath.ac.uk Location: Amphitheatre, Date 26/6/2007, 11:00-13:00 Chair: Nick Pace 11:00-11:20 Martin Hovland (Invited) Acoustic and visual documentation of deep-water coral reefs, Norwegian Continental Shelf 11:20-11:40 Jon Preston, Ben Biffard (Invited) Acoustic classification with sounder echoes: isolating effects of the seabed on the echo 11:40-12:00 Craig J. Brown, Jenny S. Collier (Invited) Advances in benthic habitat mapping: The application of acoustic survey methods for habitat discrimination 12:00-12:20 Vera Van Lancker, Isabelle Du Four, Steven Degraer(Invited) Habitat mapping in soft substrata: problems encountered in relating acoustic backscatter to environmental variables 12:20-12:40 Jaroslaw Tegowski, Kruss(Invited) Aleksandra Jaroslaw Tegowski Vera Van Lancker Craig J. Brown Jon Preston Martin Hovland Acoustic study of benthic habitats in the arctic 12:40-13:00 Jennifer Smyth, Craig Brown, Rory Quinn Detection, mapping and benthic impacts of scour around Pisces Reef(s), Irish Sea Jennifer Smyth Structured Session 7b: Bioacoustics Organizer: Olav Rune Godø - olavrune@imr.no Location: Lecture Room 1 – Date 26/6/2007, 11:00-12:40 Chair: Nils Olav Handegard 11:00-11:20 Nils Olav Handegard, Egil Ona, Geir Pedersen, Ruben Patel (Invited) Horizontal target strength of herring; modelling and measurements with split beam echo sounder and multi-beam sonar 11:20-11:40 David K. Mellinger, Bradbury(Invited) Jack W. David K. Mellinger Nils Olav Handegard Acoustic Measurement of Marine Mammal Sounds in Noisy Environments 11:40-12:00 Egil Ona, Hans Petter Knudsen, Lars Nonboe Andersen (Invited) Field calibration of the MS70 multibeam sonar 12:00-12:20 Alec J Duncan, Robert D McCauley, Susan J Rennie Modelling and Measurement of Acoustic Exposure Levels Due to Seismic Surveys in Australian Waters 12:20-12:40 Gennadi Zaslavski Discrimination of transient signals having identical energy spectra by the Black Sea bottlenose dolphin Gennadi Zaslavski Alec J Duncan Egil Ona Structured Session 16: Underwater acoustic technologies for protection of ports, waterways and coastlines Organizer: Thomas Meurling - Thomas@reson.com Location: Lecture Room 2 – Date 26/6/2007 11:00-13:00 Chair: Thomas Meurling 11:00-11:20 Christian Ingvorsen, Marlene Baldwin (Invited) Ro-Bat Protector: A safe defence for naval vessels 11:20-11:40 John Chapman, Martin Way Automatic Detection and Tracking of Underwater Intruders 11:40-12:00 Fumitaka Maeda, Akira Asada, Kazuoki Kuramoto, Yoshinori Kurashige, Yoshinobu Kawashima, Mitsuhiko Nanri, Ryusuke Imai, Kazuhiro Hantani (Invited) Development of Sonar and Optical Sensor integration in the Underwater Security Sonar System 12:00-12:20 Claire Prada, Julien de Rosny, Dominique Clorennec, Jean-Gabriel Minonzio, Mathias Fink, Lothar Berniere, Sidonie Hibral, Philippe Billant and Thomas Folegot Experiment of detection and focusing in shallow water using the DORT method with a 12kHz source-receiver array. 12:20-12:40 Tuncay Akal, Piero Guerrini, William A. Kuperman, Kerem Köprülü, Philippe Roux, Karim Sabra Surveillance and protection of underwater archaeological sites ‘seaguard’ 12:40-13:00 Robert Floyd, Dan Suchman An integrated approach to underwater intruder detection Dan Suchman Tuncay Akal Claire Prada Fumitaka Maeda Martin Way Christian Ingvorsen Regular Session VI: Transducer and array technologies Location: Lecture Room 3 – Date 26/6/2007, 11:00-13:00 Chair: Pawel Pocwiardowski 11:00-11:20 Shijun Feng, Haichun Yu,Qihu Li,Changyu Sun The research of Submarine small data acquisition & high-speed transmission node for the towed array 11:20-11:40 Eric Maillard, Lars Pedersen, George Yufit Bottom Relief Restoration in Multibeam Echosounders 11:40-12:00 Mo Xiping, Zhu Houqing A new design of low frequency broadband flextensional transducer 12:00-12:20 Jack Keen, Philip Pidsley The Development of the Luneberg Lens as a Sonar Receiver Beamformer 12:20-12:40 Thomas R. Howarth, Thomas A. Nigrelli and Jeffrey A. Szelag Study of coatings for extended sensor underwater immersions 12:40-13:00 Lucie Pautet Through the sensor health monitoring for hydroacoustic stations of the IMS network 13:00–14:30 Lunch Lucie Pautet Thomas R. Howarth Philip Pidsley Mo Xiping George Yufit Qihu Li Structured Session 18b: Habitat mapping and underwater acoustics Organizers: Nick Pace and Philippe Blondel ngpace@yahoo.com and P.Blondel@bath.ac.uk Location: Amphitheatre, Date 26/6/2007, 14:30-16:10 Chair: Anthony Lyons 14:30-14:50 Jean-Sebastien Houziaux, Degrendele, Alain Norro, Mallefet,F. Kerckhof, Roche(Invited) Koen Jerome Marc Marc Roche Gravel fields of the Western Belgian border, southern bight of the North Sea: a multidisciplinary approach to habitat characterization and mapping 14:50-15:10 Iain Parnum, Alexander Gavrilov, Justy Siwabessy Analysis of multibeam sonar data for the purposes of seabed classification (Invited) 15:10-15:30 Andrzej Orlowski (Invited) New approach for acoustic classification of the benthic habitat 15:30-15:50 Anthony P. Weber(Invited) Lyons, Thomas C. Andrzej Orlowski Anthony P. Lyons Iain Parnum A multibeam sonar survey for a benthic lake habitat: Assessing the impact of invasive mussels in Seneka Lake, New York 15:50-16:10 V. Hühnerbach, Ph. Blondel, Huvenne, O. Gomez Sichi (Invited) V. V. Hühnerbach Repeatability of high-resolution sidescan and multibeam backscatter imagery over cold-water corals - possible implications on long-term habitat monitoring Structured Session 14a: Measurement Activities in the Baltic Sea Organizer: Bo Lövgren - bo.lovgren@underwater.saab.se Location: Lecture Room 1, Date 26/6/2007, 14:30-16:30 Chair: Bo Lövgren 14:30-14:50 Frank Gerdes, Jan Grobys, Michaela Knoll, Jόrgen Sellschopp (Invited) Frank Gerdes Temporal variability of environmental and acoustic data from a fixed range experiment in the Bornholm Basin 14:50-15:10 Wolfgang Jans, Ivor Nissen, Frank Gerdes (Invited) Characterization of an acoustic communication channel UCAC I 2006 sea trial, propagation loss, angular distribution and impulse responses 15:10-15:30 P.A. van Walree, G. Bertolotto (Invited) Characterization of an acoustic communication channel with pseudorandom binary sequences 15:30-15:50 Erland Sangfelt, Magnus Lundberg Nordenvaad, Niten Olofsson, Bernt Nilsson, Paul van Walree, Tommy Oberg (Invited) Underwater communication in the Baltic Sea using iterative equalization 15:50-16:10 Zygmunt Klusek, Aliaksandr Lisimenka (Invited) Ambient Sea Noise in the Baltic Sea 16:10-16:30 Jorgen Pihl, Sven Ivansson, Joakim Schon (Invited) 2-D and 3-D modelling of TL and RL measurements in the Baltic Jorgen Pihl Zygmunt Klusek Erland Sangfelt P.A. van Walree Wolfgang Jans, Frank Gerdes Regular Session IIIa: Signal Processing Location: Lecture Room 2, Date 26/6/2007 14:30-16:30 Chair: Manell Zakharia 14:30-14:50 Ivars P. Kirsteins, Alessandra Tesei Signal Processing Methodologies for Measuring Elastic Wave Backscattering from Symmetric Shells in the Presence of Geometric Interference 14:50-15:10 Berke M. Gur, Christopher Niezrecki Detection of coherent bioacoustic signals in underwater noise 15:10-15:30 Du Shuanping, Ma Qiming, Zhou Lisheng Research of Weak Signal Detection based on Genetic Algorithm (GA) 15:30-15:50 Rolf Kahrs Hansen, Umberto Castellani, Davide Meschini, Enrico Puppo Ping to ping registration of 3D sonar data sets 15:50-16:10 Andrei Mashoshin A Solution to the Problem of Simultaneous Classification and Localization of Underwater Objects from Their Acoustic Field 16:10-16:30 Nico Roosnek A torpedo detection and 3D tracking system Andrei Mashoshin Rolf Kahrs Hansen Zhou Lisheng Ivars P. Kirsteins Berke M. Gur Nico Roosnek Structured Session 9: Environmental variability, adaptation and information fusion Organizer: Georgios Haralabus - Haralabus@nurc.nato.int Location: Lecture Room 3, Date 26/6/2007, 14:30-16:30 Chair: Georgios Haralabus 14:30-14:50 Alberto Baldacci, Georgios Haralabus, Stefano Coraluppi, Mark Prior (Invited) Adaptive sub-band processing in active detection and tracking 14:50-15:10 Alessandro Berni, Diego Merani, Michel Leonard (Invited) Network-enabled information fusion in support of underwater research 15:10-15:30 Jean-Claude Le Gac On the integration of through-the sensor geoacoustic inversion techniques for environmental adaptation schemes in low frequency active sonars 15:30-15:50 Lucie Pautet, Alessandra Tesei Robustness of TR-based focusing to environmental conditions at 10-20 KHz 15:50-16:10 Camiel van Moll, Michael Ainslie, FPA Lam, V. Janmaat The most likely distribution of target echo amplitudes 16:10– 16:30 Manell Zakharia, Christian Toniazzi (Invited) Measurement errors in experiments at sea 16:30-16:50 Coffee Break Manell Zakharia Camiel van Moll Jean-Claude Le Gac Alessandro Berni Georgios Haralabus Alessandra Tesei Structured Session 18c: Habitat mapping and underwater acoustics Organizers: Nick Pace and Philippe Blondel ngpace@yahoo.com and P.Blondel@bath.ac.uk Location: Amphitheatre, Date 26/6/2007, 16:50-17:50 Chair: Jean-Pierre Hermand 16:50-17:10 Veerle A.I. Huvenne, Hühnerbach Veit , Philippe Blondel, Olga Gomez Sichi, Tim Le Bas (Invited) Detailed mapping of shallow-water environments using image texture analysis on sidescan sonar and multibeam backscatter imagery 17:10-17:30 Guy R. Cochrane(Invited) Marine Geo-habitat of Southern California from Video-supervised Classification of Sonar Data 17:30-17:50 Alexander Callaway, Craig Brown, Rory Quinn Habitat discrimination and mapping using multiple geophysical techniques on Pisce Reef(s), Irish Sea. Structured Session 14b: Measurement Activities in the Baltic Sea Organizer: Bo Lövgren - bo.lovgren@underwater.saab.se Location: Lecture Room 1, Date 26/6/2007, 16:50-17:30 Chair: Zygmunt Klusek 16:50-17:10 Beata Schmidt, Joanna Szczucka Diel Vertical Migration in the Baltic Sea observed by use of ADCP and SIMRAD EK 500 17:10-17:30 Ari Poikonen,Seppo Madekivi Underwater noise measurements in very shallow coastal environment Ari Poikonen Beata Schmidt Guy R. Cochrane Veerle A.I. Huvenne, Veit Hühnerbach Alexander Callaway Regular Session IIIb: Signal Processing Location: Lecture Room 2, Date 26/6/2007 16:50-17:50 Chair: Manell Zakharia 16:50-17:10 Antonio J. Silva, Sergio M. Jesus Joyo P. Gomes Depth and range shift compensation using waveguide invariant properties 17:10-17:30 Lei Wang, Bing Li, Haichun Yu, Tian Tian, Qihu Li The near-field measurement of the target radiated noise by Stolt interpolation methods 17:30-17:50 Andrzej Milewski, Sylwester Gawor Edward Sedek, Andrzej Milewski, Edward Sedek Lei Wang, Qihu Li Antonio J. Silva The method of amplitude weighting of linear frequency modulated chirp signals for sonar application 20:00-01:00 Banquet Wednesday, June 27th Structured Session 10: Seagrass acoustics Organizer: Jean-Pierre Hermand - jhermand@ulb.ac.be Location : Amphitheatre, Date 27/6/2007 09:45-10:45 Chair : Jean-Pierre Hermand 09 :45-10:05 Yao-Ting Tseng A determination scheme of seagrass canopy height by two frequencies 10:05-10:25 Preston S. Wilson, Kenneth H. Dunton Seagrass acoustics: Results of an experimental laboratory investigation 10:25-10-45 Jaroslaw Tegowski, Natalia Gorska, Zygmunt Klusek, Aleksandra Kruss, JeanPierre Hermand Parametrical analysis of acoustic echoes from sea-grass in the southern Baltic Sea and macrophytes in Svalbard archipelago area Jaroslaw Tegowski Preston S. Wilson Yao-Ting Tseng Structured Session 21a: Advances in acoustic vector sensors and fibre optical hydrophones Organizer: Guiqing Sun - gui_qing_sun@yahoo.com.cn Location: Lecture Room 2, Date 27/6/2007, 09:45-10:45 Chair: Qihu Li 09:45-10-05 Huiliang Ge , Zili Zhang, Dongming Li (Invited) Huiliang Ge Self-noise analysis of an interferometric optic fiber hydrophone 10:05-10:25 Junbin Huang, Hongcan Gu, Bo Tan, Rizhong Ri, Zude Zhou (Invited) A Fiber Bragg Grating Hydrophone Array Using Wavelength Division Multiplexing 10:25-10:45 Vladimir A. Shchurov , Guiqing SUN , Marianna V. Kuyanova, Helen Tkachenko (Invited) Strategy of simultaneous measurements of scalar and vector sound field characteristics in the real ocean Vladimir A. Shchurov, Marianna V. Kuyanova Junbin Huang Structured Session 15a: Innovative technologies in multibeam acoustic studies Organizer: Chris Malzone - CMalzone@reson.com Location: Lecture Room 3, Date 27/6/2007, 09:45-10:45 Chair: Chris Malzone 09:45-10:05 Purnima Ratilal, Zheng Gong, Srinivas Jagannathan, Mark Andrews, Ameya Galinde, Nicholas Makris (Invited) Spatial and Temporal Behaviour of Atlantic Herring Spawning on Georges Bank Revealed by Ocean Acoustics Waveguide Remote Sensing 10:05-10:25 Thomas C. Weber, Hector Pena, Mike Jech (Invited) Combining single frequency multibeam with multifrequency singlebeam sonars: an example with Atlantic herring Thomas C. Weber Purnima Ratilal 10:25-10:45 Bart Buelens, Matthew Wilson, John K. Horne Multibeam water column data analysis for fisheries research: a worked example in Echoview Bart Buelens 10:45-11:00 Coffee Break Structured Session 18d: Habitat mapping and underwater acoustics Organizers: Nick Pace and Philippe Blondel ngpace@yahoo.com and P.Blondel@bath.ac.uk Location: Amphitheatre, Date 27/6/2007, 11:00-13:00 Chair: Philippe Blondel 11:00-11:20 Jacques Yves Guigne, Nicholas G. Pace (Invited) An Analytical Acoustic Framework to Quantify the Health of Benthic Habitats 11:20-11:40 P.A. van Janmaat Walree, M.A. Ainslie, J. P.A. van Walree Jacques Yves Guigne Influence of bottom trawling on the normal incidence reflection coefficient 11:40-12:00 Jennifer Wladichuk, William Philippe Blondel(Invited) Megill, Jennifer Wladichuk A Bioinspired Approach to Sound Localization in the Underwater Coastal Environment 12:00-12:20 Rosa Freitas, Edward Morris, Jose Lucas Perez-Llorens, Ana Maria Rodrigues, Victor Quintito Identification and characterization of seabed habitats using single-beam acoustics: Comparison of two echo sounder frequencies 12:20-12:40 Laurent Seuront, Jean Paul Hermand, Jean-Pierre Hermand (Invited) Ultrasonic imaging of individual pelagic and benthic subcentimetre-scale freeswimming marine organisms 12:40-13:00 Aleksandra Kruss, Jaroslaw Tegowski Parametrical and textural analysis of side scan sonar imagery of bottom habitats of Arctic fjords - poster session Aleksandra Kruss Jean-Pierre Hermand Rosa Freitas Structured Session 12: Buried object detection using underwater nonlinear acoustics Organizer: Eugeniusz Kozaczka - eugeniuszkozaczka@plusnet.pl Location: Lecture Room 1, Date 27/6/2007, 11:00-12:40 Chair: Eugeniusz Kozaczka 11:00-11:20 Eugeniusz Kozaczka Buried objects detection by means of nonlinear acoustics method in the shallow water 11:20-11:40 Grazyna Grelowska Investigation of seabed structure by means of the nonlinear acoustic method preliminary measurements 11:40-12:00 Zachary J. Waters, Benjamin R. Dzikowicz, R. Glynn Holt, Ronald A. Roy, Identification of a resonant target in the free field and buried in a sediment using iterative, single-channel time reversal 12:00-12:20 Alessandra Tesei, Gaetano Canepa Mario Zampolli, Alessandra Tesei Eugeniusz Kozaczka Grazyna Grelowska Ronald A. Roy At-sea measurements of acoustic elastic scattering by spheres and cylinders made of composite materials 12:20-12:40 Jens Wunderlich, Sabine Mueller Detection of embedded objects using nonlinear sub-bottom profilers Jens Wunderlich Structured Session 21b: Advances in acoustic vector sensors and fibre optical hydrophones Organizer: Guiqing Sun - gui_qing_sun@yahoo.com.cn Location: Lecture Room 2, Date 27/6/2007, 11:00-13:00 Chair: Qihu Li 11:00-11:20 Guiqing Sun , Qihu Li , Xiaoping Huang, Bin Zhang (Invited) On left/right resolution of acoustic vector sensor linear array 11:20-11:40 Zili Zhang , Huiliang Ge (Invited) Measurement of equivalent plane wave self-noise measurement of interferometric optical fiber hydrophone with a vacuum container 11:40-12:00 Paulo Santos, Paulo Felisberto, Paul Hursky (Invited) Source Localization with a Vector Sensor Array during the Makai Experiment 12:00-12:20 Dennis Lindwall Developments in imaging marine vector acoustic data 12:20-12:40 Francois M. Guillot, David H. Trivett, Peter H Rogers Fiber optic interferometric vector sensor based on Bragg gratings 12:40-13:00 Yongming Hu, Zhou Meng, Ming Ni Development of fiber optic hydrophone Yongming Hu Francois M. Guillot Dennis Lindwall Paulo Santos Zili Zhang Guiqing Sun Structured Session 15b: Innovative technologies in multibeam acoustic studies Organizer: Chris Malzone - CMalzone@reson.com Location: Lecture Room 3, Date 27/6/2007, 11:00-12:20 Chair: Chris Malzone 11:00-11:20 Chris Malzone, Matthew Wilson, Bart Buelens, Doug Lockhart (Invited) Advances in the Evolution of Acoustic Beamformed Backscatter Data for Fisheries Applications 11:20-11:40 Miles Parsons, Iain Parnum, Justy Siwabessy, Rob McCauley, Mike Mackie (Invited) Multi-beam visualisation of Samson Fish (Seriola hippos) aggregations and spawning habitats in Western Australia. 11:40-12:00 Dan Parsons, Jim Best, Steve Simmons, Chris Malzone, Oscar Orfeo, Mario Amsler (Invited) Using multibeam echo-sounding to quantify bed morphology and the dynamics of suspended sediment in large rivers: initial results from the Rio Paranα and Rio Paraguay, Argentina 12:00-12:20 Bo Lövgren Rapid Underwater Charting using an AUVbased MBES 13:00-14:30 16:00–22:00 Lunch Sailing and Barbeque Bo Lövgren Dan Parsons, Steve Simmons Miles Parsons Chris Malzone Thursday, June 28th Plenary Lecture Location: Amphitheatre, Date 28/6/2007 Chair: Leif Bjørnø 09:00-09:45 Dr. F.-R. Martin-Lauzer, NATO Undersea Research Centre, La Spezia, Italy. Near future evolution of S&T and R&D funding in Underwater Acoustics F.-R. MartinLauzer Structured Session 6a: Geoacoustic inversions Organizer: Peter Gerstoft and Ross Chapman gerstoft@ucsd.edu and chapman@uvic.ca Location: Amphitheatre, Date 28/7/2007, 09:45-10:45 Chair: Peter Gerstoft 09:45-10:05 Michael J. Buckingham, Fernando Simonet, David R. Barclay (Invited) Geo-acoustic inversion experiments in shallow water off Kauai using sound from a light aircraft 10:05-10:25 Philippe Blondel, Dong Fang, Aaron Smith, Nisabha Jayasundere (Invited) High frequency bistatic imaging of proud targets’ influence of target orientation and target type 10:25-10:45 Marie-Noël R. Matthews, Francine Desharnais, Alex E. Hay, David J. Thomson (Invited) Geoacoustic inversion of a multi-layered seabed containing surficial gassy sediment Marie-Noël R. Matthews Philippe Blondel Michael J. Buckingham Structured Session 22a: Acoustic measurements of suspended sediments Organizers: Peter Thorne and Alex Hay pdt@pol.ac.uk and alex.hay@dal.ca Location: Lecture Room 1, Date 28/6/2007, 09:45-10:45 Chair: Peter Thorne and Alex Hay 09:45-10:05 Alex Hay (Invited) Remote acoustic measurement of sediment transport processes: A once and future history 10:05-10:25 Timothy P Stanton (Invited) A Pulse Coherent Acoustic Sediment and Velocity Profiler 10:25-10:45 Len Zedel, Alex Hay (Invited) Multi-Frequency Coherent Doppler Profiler: Model Results and Lab Trials Doppler Timothy P Stanton Len Zedel Alex Hay Structured Session 24a: Tank experiments Organizer: Jean-Pierre Sessarego - sessarego@lma.cnrs-mrs.fr Location: Lecture Room 2, Date 28/6/2007, 09:45-10:45 Chair: Jean-Pierre Sessarego 09:45-10:05 Alexios Korakas, Frédéric Sturm, JeanPierre Sessarego, Didier Ferrand Investigation of pulse propagation in shallow water laboratory experiments and comparison with numerical simulations 10:05-10:25 Shui Li, Maqi Luo, Jiangxing Shen, Jinliang Fan Traveling Wave Tube Measurements for Low-Frequency Properties of Underwater Acoustic Materials 10:25-10:45 Liu Yan-sen, Sheng Mei-ping, Wang Minqing,Wang Mei-yan, Zhang Hui-ping Experimental research on theory and application of edge diffraction separated in time domain based on virtual instrument technology Sheng Mei-ping, Wang Min-qing Shui Li Alexios Korakas Structured Session 8a: Synthetic Aperture Sonars: State-of-the-Art Organizer: Roy. E. Hansen - roy-edgar.hansen@ffi.no Location: Lecture Room 3, Date 28/6/2007, 09:45-10:45 Chair: Roy. E. Hansen 09:45-10:05 Sean Chapman, Richard Orme (Invited) A Robust Motion Compensation Solution for SAS 10:05-10:25 Johannes Groen, Roy E. Hansen, Vincent Myers, Hayden J. Callow, Marc A. Pinto (Invited) Measurements on shadow contour estimation accuracy in synthetic aperture sonar images 10:25-10:45 Torstein Olsmo Sæbø Roy Edgar Hansen Hayden John Callow Bent Kjellesvig (Invited) Using the cross-ambiguity function for improving sidelooking sonar height estimation 10:45-11:00 Coffee Break Torstein Olsmo Sæbø Johannes Groen Sean Chapman Structured Session 6b: Geoacoustic inversions Organizer: Peter Gerstoft and Ross Chapman gerstoft@ucsd.edu and chapman@uvic.ca Location: Amphitheatre, Date 28/6/2007, 11:00-13:00 Chair: Ross Chapman 11:00-11:20 Alexander Gavrilov, Alec J Duncan, JinRong Wu (Invited) Geoacoustic inversion from the transmission loss and arrival structure of air-gun signals propagated in deep water 11:20-11:40 Michael A Ainslie, P.A VanWalree, W. Boek(Invited) The role of the echo sounder in low frequency reverberation inversion 11:40-12:00 Ross Chapman, Yongmin Jiang, Hodgkiss, Peter Gerstoft (Invited) Geoacoustic Inversion in Shallow Water Experiments 12:00-12:20 the Bill SW06 Kyle M. Becker Ross Chapman Michael A Ainslie Alexander Gavrilov Kyle M. Becker, Subramaniam D. Rajan, Megan S. Ballard (Invited) An overview of the methods experiments modal inverse 12:20-12:40 Peter Gerstoft, Chen-Fen Huang, William S. Hodgkiss, Martin Siderius (Invited) Single and Multiple sensor coherent noise processing Peter Gerstoft 12:40-13:00 Yann Stephan, Gwladys Theuillon, Xavier Lurton (Invited) Multisensor Geoacoustic Inversion applied to the CALIMERO experiment in the Gulf of Lion Yann Stephan Structured Session 22b: Acoustic measurements of suspended sediments Organizers: Peter Thorne and Alex Hay pdt@pol.ac.uk and alex.hay@dal.ca Location: Lecture Room 1, Date 28/6/2007, 11:00-12:40 Chair: Peter Thorne and Alex Hay 11:00-11:20 Richard Cooke (Invited) Design and implementation of a threeaxis coherent Doppler velocity profiler 11:20-11:40 D. Hurther, U. Lemmin (Invited) Multistatic acoustic Doppler profilers for fine-scale studies of velocity and particle flux processes 11:40-12:00 Peter Traykovski (Invited) Sediment flux and turbulence measurements using a pulse coherent Doppler profiler over ripples measured with a two axis rotary pencil beam system 12:00-12:20 Alejandro J. Souza (Invited) The use of ADCPS to measure turbulence and SPM in Shelf seas 12:20-12:40 Paul S Bell, Peter D Thorne (Invited) Field measurements of wave induced sand ripples in three dimensions Alejandro J. Souza Paul S Bell Peter Traykovski D. Hurther Richard Cooke Structured Session 24b: Tank experiments Organizer: Jean-Pierre Sessarego - sessarego@lma.cnrs-mrs.fr Location: Lecture Room 2, Date 28/6/2007, 11:00-12:40 Chair: Jean-Pierre Sessarego 11:00-11:20 J-P Sessarego, R. Guillermin, A. Ivakin High Frequency Reflection from WaterSaturated Sandy Bottoms. 11:20-11:40 Raymond J. Soukup Validation of acoustic scattering and propagation models in tank experiments with simulated elastic ocean bottoms 11:40-12:00 Frédéric Sturm, Jean-Pierre Sessarego, Didier Ferrand Laboratory scale measurements of across-slope sound propagation over a wedge-shaped bottom 12:00-12:20 Alessandra Tesei, Piero Guerrini, Mario Zampolli Tank measurements of elastic scattering by a raisin field fibreglass spherical shell 12:20-12-40 Panagiotis Papadakis, Michael Taroudakis, Patrick Sanchez, Jean-Pierre Sessarego Identification of modal arrivals in laboratory experiments of long range acoustic propagation Panagiotis Papadakis Alessandra Tesei Raymond J. Soukup J-P Sessarego Frédéric Sturm Structured Session 8b: Synthetic Aperture Sonars: State-of-the-Art Organizer: Roy. E. Hansen roy-edgar.hansen@ffi.no Location: Lecture Room 3, Date 28/6/2007, 11:00-12:00 Chair: Roy. E. Hansen 11:00-11:20 Andrea Bellettini, Marc Pinto, Benjamin Evans (Invited) Experimental results of a 300 kHz shallow water synthetic aperture sonar 11:20-11:40 Roy Edgar Hansen, Hayden John Callow, Olsmo Torstein Sæbø, (Invited) The effect of sound velocity variations on synthetic aperture sonar 11:40-12:00 Peter Gough (Invited) Paper title to be announced Peter Gough Roy Hansen Edgar Andrea Bellettini 13:00-14:30 Lunch Structured Session 6c: Geoacoustic inversions Organizer: Peter Gerstoft and Ross Chapman gerstoft@ucsd.edu and chapman@uvic.ca Location: Amphitheatre, Date 28/7/2007, 14:30-16:30 Chair: Peter Gerstoft 14:30-14:50 Laurent Guillon, Charles W. Holland, Christopher Barber (Invited) Cross-spectral analysis of seabed reflected signals: simulations and experimental data 14:50-15:10 Vincent van Leijen Jean-Pierre Hermand, Matthias Meyer (Invited) Inversion of Saba bank geoacoustics using a ship as sound source of opportunity 15:10-15:30 Altan Turgut, Peter Mignerey (Invited) Geoacoustic inversion by using sources of opportunity during the RAGS03 winter experiment. 15:30-15:50 Adrian Jones, Alec Duncan, Amos Maggi (Invited) Robust Prediction of Spatial Statistics of Acoustic Field for Shallow Oceans 15:50-16:10 Warren T. Wood (Invited) Estimation of seafloor geo-acoustic parameters using a low-frequency, towed source and receiver array 16:10-16:30 Jean-Claude Le Gac (Invited) Through the-sensor geoacoustic inversion along a towed horizontal line array. Results from real data set at the Mediterranean Sea Jean-Claude Le Gac Warren T. Wood Adrian Jones Altan Turgut Vincent van Leijen Laurent Guillon Structured Session 22c: Acoustic measurements of suspended sediments Organizers: Peter Thorne and Alex Hay pdt@pol.ac.uk and alex.hay@dal.ca Location: Lecture Room 1, Date 28/6/2007, 14:30-16:10 Chair: Peter Thorne and Alex Hay 14:30-14:50 George Voulgaris (Invited) Quantitative and Qualitative Uses of Acoustic Techniques for Sediment and Particular Organic Material Transport in Coastal Environments 14:50-15:10 Stephen (Invited) Caine, Andrew Smerdon George Voulgaris Stephen Caine The factors that affect the performance of Multiple Frequency Acoustic Backscatter instruments: the evaluation of a commercial ABS system 15:10-15:30 Yogesh C. Agrawal, Amanda Whitmire, Ole Mikkelsen, H.C. Pottsmith(Invited) Laser Scattering by Random Shaped Particles and its impact on Suspended Sediment Measurement 15:30-15:50 Peter D. Thorne, Alan G Davies, Paul S Bell (Invited) Acoustic measurements of vortex ripple entrainment and sediment diffusivity over a sandy rippled bed under waves 15:50-16:10 Ben Moate, Peter Thorne (Invited) Measurements of the backscattering characteristics of suspensions having a broad particle size distribution Ben Moate Peter D. Thorne Yogesh C. Agrawal Structured Session 17a: Reverberation, Scattering and Clutter Organizers: Peter Nielsen and Chris Harrison nielsen@nurc.nato.int and harrison@nurc.nato.int Location: Lecture Room 2, Date 28/6/2007 14:30-16:30 Chair: Peter Nielsen 14:30-14:50 Dale D. Ellis, John R. Preston (Invited) A comparison of broadband reverberation and clutter data from two directional towed arrays on the Malta Plateau 14:50-15:10 Anthony P. Lyons, Thomas C. Weber, Michael J. Gustafson (Invited) An Experimental Study on the Causes of Non-Rayleigh Scattered Envelope Statistics 15:10-15:30 John R. Preston, Dale D. Ellis (Invited) Some data/model comparisons of broadband reverberation on the Malta Plateau using towed arrays and a new Matlab and normal mode based reverberation mode 15:30-15:50 Jeffrey Krolik, Granger Hickman, Ryan Goldhahn (Invited) Reverberation Level Estimation using Waveguide Invariant Striations 15:50-16:10 Dick G. Simons, Mirjam Snellen (Invited) A model data comparisonfor frequency backscattering 16:10-16:30 high Michael. A. Ainslie Dick G. Simons Jeffrey Krolik John R. Preston Anthony P. Lyons Dale D. Ellis Michael. A. Ainslie, Wilco Boek, Peter Nielsen, Chris Harrison (Invited) The role of benchmarks in the inversion of low frequency bottom reverberation. 16:30-16:50 Lunch Break Structured Session 6d: Geoacoustic inversions Organizer: Peter Gerstoft and Ross Chapman gerstoft@ucsd.edu and chapman@uvic.ca Location: Amphitheatre, Date 28/7/2007, 16:50-18:30 Chair: Ross Chapman 16:50-17:10 Chris Harrison, Peter Nielsen (Invited) Separability of Scattering and Reflection Parameters in Reverberation Inversion 17:10-17:30 Matthias Meyer, Jean-Pierre Hermand, Mohamed Berrada, Mark Asch (Invited) Adjoint-based monitoring of environmental parameters in shallow water areas 17:30-17:50 J.S. Papadakis, J.P Hermand, E.T Flouri, M. Meyer (Invited) Geoacoustic adjoint-based inversion for a parabolic equation with a Neumann Dirichlet map bottom boundary condition 17:50-18:10 Elias Fakiris, Athena Chalari, George Papatheodorou (Invited) A convenient Matlab graphical user interface for the analysis of analog subbottom profiles 18:10-18:30 Alex de Bruijn, Frank P.A. Benders, Frank P.G. Driessen (Invited) Determination of the dilatational wave speed in elastomer layers by means of an interferometer Alex de Bruijn, Frank P.A. Benders Elias Fakiris John S. Papadakis Matthias Meyer Chris Harrison Structured Session 22d: Acoustic measurements of suspended sediments Organizers: Peter Thorne and Alex Hay pdt@pol.ac.uk and alex.hay@dal.ca Location: Lecture Room 1, Date 28/6/2007, 16:50-18:30 Chair: Peter Thorne and Alex Hay 16:50-17:10 Anne Pallares, Faros Abda, Abdelhalim Azbaid, Denis Ensminger, Stephane Fischer, Pierre Francois,Philippe Schmitt Instrumental development for velocity and sediment concentration measurements 17:10-17:30 Stephanie Moore, Alex Hay On the Angular Dependence of Acoustic Scattering from Sand in Suspension 17:30-17:50 Christian Maushake, Jeroen Aardoom Suspended Sediment Measurements on the River Elbe using ADCP 17:50-18:10 Sergio Jaramillo, Alexandru Sheremet, Mead A. Allison Observations of wave-sediment coupling on Atchafalaya Shelf, Louisiana, USA 18:10-18:30 Jens Wunderlich, Thomas Buch, Kerstin Schrottke Bed mobility measurements of suspended sediments in tidal waters using nonlinear sub-bottom profilers and nonlinear lowfrequent ADCP Jens Wunderlich Stephanie Moore Christian Maushake Alexandru Sheremet Anne Pallares Structured Session 17b: Reverberation, Scattering and Clutter Organizers: Peter Nielsen and Chris Harrison nielsen@nurc.nato.int and harrison@nurc.nato.int Location: Lecture Room 2, Date 28/6/2007 16:50-18:10 Chair: Chris Harrison 16:50-17:10 Valery Petnikov, Boris Katsnelson, Harry DeFerrari, Hien Nguyen, James Lynch, Arthur Newhall, Sergey Pereselkov (Invited) Comparison between internal wave augmented and purely bottom induced attenuation as a function of frequency SW06 measurements and numerical simulations. 17:10-17:30 Halvor Hobæk, Tonje Lexau Nesse Sound scattering from short metallic cylinders and its relation to modal vibrations 17:30-17:50 Jerald W. Caruthers, Richard Slaughter, Sean Griffin, Maurice G. Fields A Multibeam Subbottom Profiler 17:50-18:10 Chris Harrison, Peter Nielsen Multipath Pulse Shape in a Refracting Environment Chris Harrison Jerald W. Caruthers Halvor Hobæk Valery Petnikov, Friday, June 29th Plenary Lecture Location: Amphitheatre, Date 29/6/2007 Chair: Emmanuel Skarsoulis 09:00-09:45 Professor Uwe Send, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Univ. California, San Diego, USA. Title of paper: To be announced Structured Session 26: Future Applications of Underwater Acoustic Measurements Organizer: Leif Bjørnø - prof.lb@mail.dk Location: Amphitheatre, Date 29/6/2007 09:45-10:45 Chair: Leif Bjørnø 09:45-10:05 Patricia (Invited) Gruber, Ellen Livingston Patricia Gruber Uwe Send ONR Ocean Acoustics Program ShallowWater Acoustic Measurements 10:05-10:25 Qihu Li (Invited) Recent Advances of Shallow Underwater Acoustics in China Qihu Li 10:45-11:00 Coffee Break Structured Session 25: Tomography-Arctic acoustics Organizer: Emmanuel Skarsoulis - eskars@iacm.forth.gr Location: Amphitheatre Date 29/6/2007 11:00-12:00 Chair: Emmanuel Skarsoulis 11:00-11:20 Hanne Sagen, Stein Sandven , Emmanuel Skarsoulis, George Piperakis, Michael Kalogerakis, Peter Worcester DAMOCLES: The Fram Strait Acoustic Tomography System 11:20-11:40 Nelson Martins, Sergio Jesus Ocean volume temperature inversion using a drifting buoy network 11:40-12:00 Alexander Gavrilov, Binghui Li Antarctica as one of the major sources of noise in the ocean Alexander Gavrilov Nelson Martins Hanne Sagen, Emmanuel Skarsoulis Regular Session II: Seafloor characterization Location: Lecture Room 1, Date 29/6/2007 11:00-12:20 Chair: Mike Buckingham 11:00-11:20 Noela Sànchez-Carnero, Cristina Bernàrdez, Marek Moszyński, Juan Freire Development of an open approach for acoustic marine benthic habitat classification 11:20-11:40 Elias Fakiris, George Papatheodorou Calibration of textural analysis parameters towards a valid classification of sidescan sonar imagery 11:40-12:00 Mirjam Snellen, Dick. G. Simons Modelling single beam echo sounder signals for sea and river bed classification 12:00-12:20 Mustafa Toker, Vedat Ediger, Graham Evans (Invited) Salt deformation and pore fluid related hydraulics-induced overburden unstability and overpressure regime in the Cilicia-Adana Basin, the NEMediterranean Sea Mustafa Toker, Vedat Ediger, Graham Evans Mirjam Snellen Elias Fakiris Noela SànchezCarnero Structured Session 1: Acoustics of gassy sediments Organizer: Angus Best - aib@soc.soton.ac.uk Location: Lecture Room 2, Date 29/6/2007, 11:00-12:20 Chair: Angus Best 11:00-11:20 Preston S. Wilson, Allen H. Reed, Warren T. Wood, Ronald A. Roy (Invited) Low frequency sound speed measurements paired with computed Xray tomography imaging in gas-bearing reconstituted natural sediments 11:20-11:40 Gary B.N. Robb, Timothy G. Leighton, Victor F. Humphrey, Angus I. Best, Justin K. Dix, Zygmunt Klusek (Invited) Investigating acoustic propagation in gassy marine sediments using a bubbly gel mimic 11:40-12:00 Allen Reed, Warren Thompson (Invited) Wood, Karsten Allen Reed Gary Robb Preston S. Wilson Quantification of gas void fraction and bubble geometry in muddy sediments 12:00-12:20 Angus I. Best, Jeremy Sothcott, Michelle H. Ellis, Timothy A. Minshull, Emily Kingston, Jeffrey A. Priest & Christopher R. I. Clayton (Invited) Laboratory measurements of the ultrasonic and seismic properties of marine sediment-hosted methane gas hydrates. Angus I. Best Regular Session IV: Underwater acoustic imaging Location: Lecture Room 3, Date 29/6/2007, 11:00-12:00 Chair: Qihu Li 11:00-11:20 Krzysztof Bikonis, Marek Moszynski Reconstruction of 3D seafloor images from side scan sonar records 11:20-11:40 Sayuri Matsumoto, Takenobu Tsuchiya, Tetsuo Anada, Nobuyuki Endoh Underwater Acoustic Lens Margin Test for Aperture Diameter and Incident Angle Limitation 11:40-12:00 Kazuyoshi Mori, Hanako Toshiaki Nakamura Ogasawara, Kazuyoshi Mori Krzysztof Bikonis Sayuri Matsumoto Reduced Scale Experiment of Single Spherical Biconcave Acoustic Lens System for Ambient Noise Imaging 13:00 – 14:30 Lunch 14:30-15:00 Closing Ceremony