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.

这项协作努力建议建立技术资源和新的沟通机制，以开发和共享有关在美国学术机队的多微型声纳的操作和监视的共同信息，工具和专业知识。该策略是建立一个利益相关者社区，其中包括每个运营机构的代表，并得到了用户和技术/工程社区的重要外部专家的补充，这些专家可以帮助提供有关广泛的多冰问题的指导，以改善这些数据的收集和评估方式。此外，这项努力提议建立一个多台咨询委员会（MAC），该委员会将充当整体协调机构，其主要目标是支持美国学术研究机队上船上船上的映射操作，并确保始终获得高质量的数据。 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）。 共享使用仪器的维护和运行的支持使NSF资助的任何美国大学或实验室的研究人员都可以访问工作，校准了其研究的仪器，降低了该研究的成本，并扩大了潜在研究人员的基础。所有用户（或适当的资金机构）同样同等地对船只上的基本合并服务表示支持，而NSF在这一年中根据船只的分数使用支付了一部分支持费用。