Project Swathmap: Military Sonars in Service to Science

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  • Peter B. Humphrey University of Hawaii

Abstract

Project swathmap (one of four deep-water, long-range sidescan sonars in operation today) is the low-cost peacetime application of a U.S. Navy antisubmarine warfare system utilized on routine ocean-wide combat vessel transists. While resolution is not sufficient to observe bathymetric structures in detail, the system is particularly adept at locating them and determining continuity. Routine observations include terraces, trench-crossings, fracture zones, abyssal hills, craters, seamounts (many of them new) often topped by craters, and abyssal hills (superb clues to plate tectonic motion).

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Published

2015-07-28

How to Cite

Humphrey, P. B. (2015). Project Swathmap: Military Sonars in Service to Science. The International Hydrographic Review, 64(2). Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/ihr/article/view/23394

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