Collaborative Research: Optimizing Multibeam Data Acquisition Operations and Quality for the U.S. Academic Research Fleet

协作研究：优化美国学术研究团队的多波束数据采集操作和质量

• 批准号: 1150520
• 负责人: Vicki Ferrini
• 金额: $ 7.91万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1150520&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Optimizing; Multibeam; Data

This collaborative effort proposes to establish technical resources and new communication mechanisms to develop and share common information, tools, and expertise regarding the operation and monitoring of multibeam sonars across the U.S. Academic Fleet. The strategy is to create a community of stakeholders including representatives from each operating institution, complemented by key outside experts from the user and technical/engineering communities that can assist in providing guidance on a broad array of multibeam issues to improve how these data are collected and assessed. In addition, the effort proposes to establish a Multibeam Advisory Committee (MAC) that will act as an overall coordinating body with the primary goal of supporting mapping operations onboard vessels in the U.S. academic research fleet and ensuring that high quality data are consistently acquired. They will also assemble small groups of individuals from the MAC and community of stakeholders into technical teams, each of which is tasked with specific components of multibeam system performance evaluation.Broader ImpactsThe principal impact of the present proposal is under criterion two, providing infrastructure support for scientists to use the vessel and its shared-use instrumentation in support of their NSF-funded oceanographic research projects (which individually undergo separate review by the relevant research program of NSF). The support of maintenance and operation of shared-use instrumentation allows NSF-funded researchers from any US university or lab access to working, calibrated instruments for their research, reducing the cost of that research, and expanding the base of potential researchers. All users (or the appropriate funding agencies) share support for basic pooled services on the vessel equally, with NSF paying a share of the support costs based on fractional usage of the vessel during the year.

这一合作努力建议建立技术资源和新的通信机制，以开发和共享有关美国学术舰队内多波束声纳操作和监测的共同信息、工具和专业知识。战略是建立一个利益攸关方社区，其中包括每个业务机构的代表，辅之以来自用户和技术/工程界的关键外部专家，这些专家可以协助就一系列广泛的多波束问题提供指导，以改进收集和评估这些数据的方式。此外，这项工作还建议建立一个多波束咨询委员会(MAC)，作为一个整体协调机构，其主要目标是支持美国学术研究舰队船上的测绘业务，并确保持续获得高质量的数据。他们还将把MAC和利益相关者社区的一小群人组成技术团队，每个团队负责多波束系统性能评估的特定组件。广泛影响本提案的主要影响是在标准2下，为科学家提供基础设施支持，以支持他们由NSF资助的海洋研究项目(这些项目分别由NSF的相关研究计划单独审查)。对共用仪器的维护和操作的支持使美国国家科学基金会资助的任何美国大学或实验室的研究人员都可以为他们的研究使用经过校准的工作仪器，从而降低了研究成本，并扩大了潜在研究人员的基础。所有用户(或适当的资助机构)平等分享对船只上的基本集合服务的支持，NSF根据船只在一年中的部分使用情况支付部分支持费用。