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Sonar for Environmental Monitoring: Construction of a Multifunctional Active Acoustic Platform Applied for Marine Renewables

Version 1 : Received: 11 November 2016 / Approved: 11 November 2016 / Online: 11 November 2016 (15:24:32 CET)
Version 3 : Received: 8 December 2018 / Approved: 10 December 2018 / Online: 10 December 2018 (15:44:02 CET)

How to cite: Francisco, F.; Sundberg, J. Sonar for Environmental Monitoring: Construction of a Multifunctional Active Acoustic Platform Applied for Marine Renewables. Preprints 2016, 2016110064. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201611.0064.v1 Francisco, F.; Sundberg, J. Sonar for Environmental Monitoring: Construction of a Multifunctional Active Acoustic Platform Applied for Marine Renewables. Preprints 2016, 2016110064. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201611.0064.v1

Abstract

Marine renewable energy is emerging as one of the fast-growing industry in the last decades, as modern society pushes for technologies that can convert energy contained from winds, waves, tides and stream flows. The implementation of renewable energy technologies impose high demands on both structural and environmental engineering, as the energy converters have to work under extreme conditions where parameters such as sea-bottom configuration, water transparency and depth, sea-states and prevailing winds are harsh. Constant monitoring of the marine environment is crucial in order to keep this sector reliable. Active acoustics is becoming a standard tool to collect multi-dimensional data from physical, geological and biological properties of the marine environment. The Div. of Electricity of Uppsala University have been developing an environmental monitoring platform based on sonar systems. This platform aims to monitor the installation, operation and decommissioning of marine renewable energy converters. The focus will be given the observations of behaviors of marine animals in vicinity of energy converters but also structural inspection and monitoring of MRETs. This paper describes how this multifunctional environmental monitoring platform come to existence from the design to the deployment phase.

Keywords

Active acoustics; Multi Beam Sonar; Dual-beam Sonar; Environmental monitoring; Offshore renewable energy

Subject

Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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