Abstract
Sidescan sonar is a small and low-cost sensor that can be mounted on most unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and unmanned surface vehicles (USVs). It has the advantages of high resolution and wide coverage, which could be valuable in providing an efficient and cost-effective solution for obtaining the bathymetry when bathymetric data are unavailable. This work proposes a method of reconstructing bathymetry using only sidescan data from large-scale surveys by formulating the problem as a global optimization, where a Sinusoidal Representation Network (SIREN) is used to represent the bathymetry and the albedo and the beam profile are jointly estimated based on a Lambertian scattering model. The assessment of the proposed method is conducted by comparing the reconstructed bathymetry with the bathymetric data collected with a high-resolution multi-beam echo sounder (MBES). An error of 20 cm on the bathymetry is achieved from a large-scale survey. The proposed method proved to be an effective way to reconstruct bathymetry from sidescan sonar data when high-accuracy positioning is available. This could be of great use for applications such as surface vehicles with Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) to obtain high-quality bathymetry in shallow water or small autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) if simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) can be applied to correct the navigation estimate.
Funder
Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research
Wallenberg AI Systems and Software Program
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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