Author: James A. Doutt
Location: Dept. of Appl. Ocean Phys. and Eng., Woods Hole Oceanogr. Inst., Woods Hole, MA 02543, jdoutt@whoi.edu
Author: Keith von der Heydt
Location: Dept. of Appl. Ocean Phys. and Eng., Woods Hole Oceanogr. Inst., Woods Hole, MA 02543, jdoutt@whoi.edu
Author: Calvert Eck
Location: Dept. of Appl. Ocean Phys. and Eng., Woods Hole Oceanogr. Inst., Woods Hole, MA 02543, jdoutt@whoi.edu
Author: Laurence N. Connor
Location: Dept. of Appl. Ocean Phys. and Eng., Woods Hole Oceanogr. Inst., Woods Hole, MA 02543, jdoutt@whoi.edu
Author: Darren Cosandier
Location: Waypoint Consulting, Inc., Calgary, AB T2C 2X5, Canada
Author: Hugh Martell
Location: Waypoint Consulting, Inc., Calgary, AB T2C 2X5, Canada
Abstract:
A relative accuracy of about 1 m in range between a ship-towed sound source
and drifting buoys was required for the analysis of data from the MOMAX
shallow-water acoustics experiment performed off the New Jersey coast in March
1997. The maximum separation between the ship and the buoys was less than 10 km.
Single-frequency GPS receivers providing both code and carrier phase information
were installed on the ship and the buoys, and their outputs were recorded for
postprocessing at sea. Differential moving-source kinematic software was used to
determine the ranges between the ship and the buoys to submeter accuracy. [Work
supported by ONR.]