Collaborative Research: Optimizing Multibeam Data Acquisition Operations and Quality for the U.S. Academic Research Fleet

协作研究：优化美国学术研究团队的多波束数据采集操作和质量

• 批准号: 1150574
• 负责人: Paul Johnson
• 金额: $ 42.05万
• 依托单位: University of New Hampshire
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1150574&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Optimizing; Multibeam; Data

This collaborative effort proposes to establish technical resources and new communication mechanisms to develop and share common information, tools, and expertise regarding the operation and monitoring of multibeam sonars across the U.S. Academic Fleet. The strategy is to create a community of stakeholders including representatives from each operating institution, complemented by key outside experts from the user and technical/engineering communities that can assist in providing guidance on a broad array of multibeam issues to improve how these data are collected and assessed. In addition, the effort proposes to establish a Multibeam Advisory Committee (MAC) that will act as an overall coordinating body with the primary goal of supporting mapping operations onboard vessels in the U.S. academic research fleet and ensuring that high quality data are consistently acquired. They will also assemble small groups of individuals from the MAC and community of stakeholders into technical teams, each of which is tasked with specific components of multibeam system performance evaluation.Broader ImpactsThe principal impact of the present proposal is under criterion two, providing infrastructure support for scientists to use the vessel and its shared-use instrumentation in support of their NSF-funded oceanographic research projects (which individually undergo separate review by the relevant research program of NSF). The support of maintenance and operation of shared-use instrumentation allows NSF-funded researchers from any US university or lab access to working, calibrated instruments for their research, reducing the cost of that research, and expanding the base of potential researchers. All users (or the appropriate funding agencies) share support for basic pooled services on the vessel equally, with NSF paying a share of the support costs based on fractional usage of the vessel during the year.

这项合作计划建立技术资源和新的通信机制，以开发和共享有关整个美国学术舰队多波束声纳操作和监控的通用信息、工具和专业知识。该战略是创建一个利益相关者社区，包括来自每个运营机构的代表，并由来自用户和技术/工程社区的主要外部专家进行补充，他们可以协助就广泛的多波束问题提供指导，以改进这些数据的收集和处理方式。评估。此外，该工作还建议建立一个多波束咨询委员会（MAC），作为整体协调机构，其主要目标是支持美国学术研究船队船上的测绘操作，并确保持续获取高质量数据。他们还将把来自 MAC 和利益相关者社区的个人组成一个小组，组成技术团队，每个团队负责多波束系统性能评估的特定组成部分。 更广泛的影响 当前提案的主要影响是在标准二之下，为以下项目提供基础设施支持：科学家们可以使用该船及其共用仪器来支持其 NSF 资助的海洋学研究项目（这些项目单独接受 NSF 相关研究计划的单独审查）。 对共享仪器的维护和操作的支持使美国任何大学或实验室的 NSF 资助的研究人员都可以使用经过校准的工作仪器进行研究，从而降低研究成本并扩大潜在研究人员的基础。所有用户（或适当的资助机构）平等地分享对船舶基本联合服务的支持，NSF 根据一年中船舶的使用情况支付一定比例的支持成本。