35th Shallow Water Multibeam Training Course 2004
The 35th Shallow Water Multibeam Training Course 2004, to be co-hosted by LSGI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University & EGS (Asia) Ltd. will be held at the above university from 9th to 14th August.
Highlights will include:
- World-recognised ‘course of excellence’ including 36 lectures and over 1,800 double-sided pages of lecture notes
- Lectures provided by four world-renowned swath specialists
- Demonstration of multibeam system
Based on the success of over thirty previous courses run all over the world,
topics to be covered will include: - Review of underwater acoustics and overview of acoustic seabed mapping systems
- Multibeam principles and multibeam calibration methods
- Positioning and motion compensation for multibeam surveys
- Multibeam survey planning
- Data structures and multibeam data processing
- Seabed acoustic backscatter and characterisation
- Visualisation methods and quality control
Enrolment for this course is limited to a maximum of fifty participants.