Sound Images of the Ocean: in Research and MonitoringSound Images of the Ocean is the first book of its kind which offers a comprehensive overview of acoustic imaging applications in the various fields of marine research, utilization, surveillance, and protection. The book employs 400 sound images of the sea floor and of processes in the sea volume, contributed by more than 120 marine experts from 22 nations. Written to be accessible to professionals in diverse related fields, the concise accompanying explanations of the complex relationships revealed by the images strive to condense the results to an essential "message." The book develops an interdisciplinary understanding of underwater acoustics and its diagnostic capabilities in order to visualize in detail the two thirds of the surface of the globe otherwise hidden from view. The high resolution but ship dependent acoustic imagery is compared with its satellite dependent counterpart, the large scale sea floor imagery by scanning the gravity deformed sea surface. |
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... plates have now be- come a frightening subject of another dimension . The mechanisms of destruction of human settlements by tectonic processes were known before : the majority of earthquakes and volcanism happen at or near plate margins ...
... plate tectonics and continental shift and from methane- hydrate deposits, containing more than twice the amount of all other carbon hydrates on Earth, to indications of ocean warming imaged by acoustic tomography; from submerged cities ...
... Plate Margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 5.2 ... Oceanic Ridges, Slow Spreading Type ... Oceanic Ridges, Fast Spreading Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 5.2.4.1 A Very Fast ...
... Ocean The Globe , Pacific Central The Globe , Pacific Australia The Globe , Indian Ocean Image 5.1.1.5-1 . The Globe ... Oceanic Nazca Plate Margin . Multibeam image .. 99 99 Image 5.2.1-4e . Image 5.2.1-4f . Chilean Margin with the ...
... plate motion including the Aegean Sea ... 240 Image 5.6.4-3 . A slump in the North Aegean Basin - the largest single failure event ever observed in the Aegean . Relief image Image 5.6.5-1 . Marmara Sea 240 242 Image 5.6.5-2 . Entrance ...
Contents
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5 | |
7 | 39 |
The Sidescan Echosounder | 48 |
4 | 52 |
Part II | 61 |
Geodynamics of Tectonic Plates | 85 |
3 | 143 |
The Ocean Volume | 265 |
Manmade Matter 325 | 324 |
Imaging of Port Architecture | 378 |
Appendix | 443 |
5 The Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler ADCP A 4 5 3 Speed Components and Doppler Shift | 450 |