what the single beam saw...

what the multi beam saw...

And still they ask is it any better...

(Actually, it's been quite awhile since anyone did ask!)

Swath-Sonar Related Sites,
available through the Ocean Mapping Group, UNB

John E. Hughes Clarke
© OMG/UNB


Improving Sea-Floor Mapping Methodologies (AAAS meeting Feb 2002)
Are you getting "full bottom coverage"?
1996 USCHC Multibeam Course Comparisons
1997 USCHC Multibeam Course Comparisons
Multibeam Training Courses Y2008 course details now available
SE 4053 RESON Seabat 9001 field laboratory
EM3000 Aquaculture site surveys- 1997
Knudsen Sidescan v. EM3000 Aquaculture site surveys - 2000/2002
Development of Keel-Mounted Sidescan Methodology
EM3000 Mine-like object detection trials
What is yaw stabilisation anyway?
LINZ Provisional Swath Sonar Specifications
    (one possible interpretation of IHO-S44-Ed4 for multibeams)

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Last modified May, 2006, by John E. Hughes Clarke (jhc@omg.unb.ca)