Sidescan Sonar has been the most popular probe for sea floor detecting in the underwater engineering. It is not only use to map the topography of the sea floor but also apply to the underwater search and rescue. Sidescan Sonar relies on commercial software, e.g. SonarPro, to record the raw data and draw images of the sea floor. However, SonarPro only presents the data to display segmental images, but it can not illustrate all images of the sea floor in one drawing. Researchers need to use the other software, called WizMap, to mosaic all Sidescan images in one drawing. WizMap is powerful for analyzing Sidescan data, but it is costly and has never been published its technology of Sidescan mosaic images. Thus we can not understand how Wizmap analysis raw data and make a mosaic drawing. Moreover, we could only accept the results it made, even the mosaic drawing is not correct. In this study, we implement a new analysis software package to facilitate reading raw data and drawing mosaic images of Sidescan Sonar. Sidescan Sonar provides basic function to record all digital raw data including GPS position, heading, roll, pitch, etc. We transfer the ship and Sidescan location from GPS to TM2 coordinate and illustrate the two side images along Sidescan trace in the same drawing. We will review the drawing and check all characteristics of these images and then adjust the heading offset and location offset to fit a better mosaic drawing. Finally, we combine all images into one mosaic drawing and compare two drawings between WizMap mosaic image and our mosaic drawing for confirming all results.

Univ., Diss.--Bremen, 2005.

Thesis (S.M.)--Joint Program in Oceanography (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-48).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wyoming, 2008. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 8, 2010). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 150-166). / Also available by subscription via World Wide Web / xv, 166 leaves, bound col. ill., col. maps (1 fold.) 29 cm

Doctor of Philosophy(PhD) / Mid-ocean ridges are a fundamental but insufficiently understood component of the global plate tectonic system. Mid-ocean ridges control the landscape of the Earth's ocean basins through seafloor spreading and influence the evolution of overriding plate margins during midocean ridge subduction. The majority of new crust created at the surface of the Earth is formed at mid-ocean ridges and the accretion process strongly influences the morphology of the seafloor, which interacts with ocean currents and mixing to influence ocean circulation and regional and global climate. Seafloor spreading rates are well known to influence oceanic basement topography. However, I show that parameters such as mantle conditions and spreading obliquity also play significant roles in modulating seafloor topography. I find that high mantle temperatures are associated with smooth oceanic basement, while cold and/or depleted mantle is associated with rough basement topography. In addition spreading obliquities greater than > 45° lead to extreme seafloor roughness. These results provide a predictive framework for reconstructing the seafloor of ancient oceans, a fundamental input required for modelling ocean-mixing in palaeoclimate studies. The importance of being able to accurately predict the morphology of vanished ocean floor is demonstrated by a regional analysis of the Adare Trough, which shows through an analysis of seismic stratigraphy how a relatively rough bathymetric feature can strongly influence the flow of ocean bottom currents. As well as seafloor, mid-ocean ridges influence the composition and morphology of overriding plate margins as they are consumed by subduction, with implications for landscape and natural resources development. Mid-ocean ridge subduction also effects the morphology and composition of the overriding plate margin by influencing the tectonic regime experienced by the overriding plate margin and impacting on the volume, composition and timing of arc-volcanism. Investigation of the Wharton Ridge slab window that formed beneath Sundaland between 70 Ma and 43 Ma reveals that although the relative motion of an overriding plate margin is the dominant force effecting tectonic regime on the overriding plate margin, this can be overridden by extension caused by the underlying slab window. Mid-ocean ridge subduction can also affect the balance of global plate motions. A longstanding controversy in global tectonics concerns the ultimate driving forces that cause periodic plate reorganisations. I find strong evidence supporting the hypothesis that the plates themselves drive instabilities in the plate-mantle system rather than major mantle overturns being the driving mechanism. I find that rapid sub-parallel subduction of the Izanagi mid-ocean ridge and subsequent catastrophic slab break o_ likely precipitated a global plate reorganisation event that formed the Emperor-Hawaii bend, and the change in relative plate motion between Australia and Antarctica at approximately 50 Ma

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Texas A & M University, 1983. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 110-120).

Thesis (M.S.)--Pennsylvania State University, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-70).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 1980. / Supervised by Tanya Atwater. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 206-213).