Anand Hiroji
University of Southern Mississippi, MS·Earth & Environmental Science
Maps of the seafloor help scientists understand ocean processes, assess hazards such as undersea landslides, and manage marine resources. Many of these maps come from multibeam echosounders, ship-mounted sonars that send fans of sound pulses to the seafloor and time their echoes.
- Fields
Earth & Environmental Science
Engineering
- Topics
seafloor mapping
multibeam echosounder
multibeam sonar
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through May 2031
What they work on
- Provide technical guidance for installation, calibration and acceptance testing of multibeam echosounders, ship sonars that map the seafloor, across U.S. Academic Research Fleet vessels.
- Develop best practices for multibeam data collection and processing to improve consistency of seafloor maps across the fleet.
- Pilot increased automation of multibeam workflows on selected vessels and report yearly on sonar performance and fleet-wide system health.
More about the research
These systems are only as good as their installation, calibration and data handling. When practices differ from ship to ship, maps from different ships can disagree.
Why it matters
Accurate, consistent seafloor maps from U.S. research ships support studies of ocean processes, natural hazard assessment and marine resource management. Better calibration, shared best practices and automated processing could improve the reliability of ocean data that many scientists depend on.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
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