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.