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Real-time Automated
Sound Velocity Data
Corrections

VIII Reunion del SEPHC

12 y 13 de mayo de
2008
Cartegena, Colombia

Derrick R. Peyton,
MSc, MBA
P.Eng, CLS, IHO Cat ”A”
dpeyton@brooke-ocean.com
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Multibeam

Outer Beams have most error

ODIM BROOKE OCEAN

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Variations in SV Data per l

2.5 hrs

1525 m/s 1532 m/s

“Contract Hydrography: An Opportunity for Innovation in Hydrographic

Surveying”, Jana L. DaSilva
Fugro GeoServices, Inc., U.S. Hydrographic Conference 2001, May 22-24, 2001
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Horizontal Error of Plotted Sound

Point A Point B
Distance = 0.7km or 11 minutes

“a horizontal difference of 8m between a plotted sounding

from the 75 deg beam angle of two points located 0.7km
apart.”

“The Effect of Refraction on Oblique Angles of Multibeam Echo-

Sounders due to Sound Speed changes through the Water
Column”,
ODIM BROOKEDesiree Batton, The Hydrographic Journal, No. 113, July,
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Spatial Resolution of SV Da
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Depth Errors due to SV da
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Depth Errors due to SV da

1m
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NOAA Field Operation
Currently, the NOAA hydrographic vessels are required to
insert the following sound speed uncertainty values in
CARIS:

For ODIM MVP Casts: use 1 m/s for casts every 15

min or less

For regular CTD Casts: use 4 m/s for casts every 4

hours

“MVPs would automatically have lower uncertainty

due to the fact that they are typically taken much
“An Algorithm for Estimating the Sound Speed Component of Total
more frequently Gretchen
Depth Uncertainty”, and therefore suffer
Imahori and less
James temporal
Hiebert,
increase in uncertainty.”
Canadian Hydrographic Conference, Victoria, British Colombia,
May 6-8, 2008
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Observing Water Column - CTD C

Disadvantages
- Low spatial resolution of SV data
- Labour intensive
- Time Consuming
- Costly ship time
- Danger to Safety
ODIM BROOKE
 ODIM Moving Vessel Profiler (MVP)
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ODIM MVPTM
(Moving Vessel
Profiler)

ODIM BROOKE
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Multi / Single Sensor Free Fall Fish

 AML CTD, SV&P, Dissolved Oxygen

 Seabird 9Plus
 Wet Labs ECO Fluorometer, C-Star
Transmissometer
 Seapoint Turbidity Meter
 D&A OBS (turbidity)
 AML DO Micro Sensor
 Data Telemetry Module (DTM) Control
Module
 Satlantic
 ODIM LOPC (Laser Optical Plankton Counter)
ODIM BROOKE
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Integrated Software System

MVP Fish track

Safety Depth
Multibeam Bottom

Data output
Winch
Controls

Navigation
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 ODIM MVPTM30
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ODIM MVPTM30-350

6 knots 6 knots
57 meters 145
3.8 minutes meters
10.8
minutes

ODIM BROOKE
 MVP30 & MVP30-
350
MVP 30 (A-Frame
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Sheave)

US Naval Oceanographic
Office

MVP 30 (A-Frame
Sheave)

NOAA, Office of
Coastal Survey

ODIM BROOKE
 ODIM MVPTM200 6 knots
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320 meters
8.1 minutes

ODIM BROOKE
 MVP200
MVP 200
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Royal Australian
Navy

MVP 200
NOAA, Office of Coast
Survey

ODIM BROOKE
 Free Fall Cone Penetrometer
(FFCPT)
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 MVP200 with
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FFCPT

ODIM MVP200 &

FFCPT
(Free Fall Cone
Penetrometer)

Defense Research &

Development Canada

ODIM BROOKE
 6 knots ODIM MVPTM300
1250 meters
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46 minutes

ODIM BROOKE
 MVP30
0
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MVP 300
Seismic
Applications

Fugro Geo Atlantic

MVP 300
University of Hawaii

ODIM BROOKE
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Multi Sensor Free Fall Fish
 6 knots ODIM MVPTM800
2100 meters
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73 minutes

ODIM BROOKE
 MVP80
0
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MVP 800
Naval & Oceanographic
Applications

British Admiralty HMS Scott

ODIM BROOKE
 ODIM LOPC
(Laser Optic Plankton Counter)
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ODIM BROOKE
 ODIM MVPTM200 LOPC
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