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Buried Waste in the Seabed – Acoustic Imaging and Bio-toxicity Results from the European SITAR Project
Title
Buried Waste in the Seabed – Acoustic Imaging and Bio-toxicity [electronic resource] : Results from the European SITAR Project / edited by Philippe Blondel, Andrea Caiti.
ISBN
9783540281214
Edition
1st ed. 2007.
Publication
Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XXIV, 208 p.) 112 illus., 12 illus. in color.
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Summary
Buried waste on the seabed is a major source of pollution. But, very often, waste sites are not known until a serious problem occurs, or are not adequately mapped. Recent examples around Europe include WWI and WWII ammunition dump sites (e.g. Beufort Dyke in the UK), dumped nuclear submarines in the Arctic Seas, clandestine or hidden toxic-waste in the Baltic Sea and the North Sea.. Even if properly documented, waste sites evolve with time (dumped material can move with currents and tides, especially on a scale of decades; toxic-material barrels can corrode and leak). This book shows the results of a concerted EU-funded effort to tackle this problem and find innovative ways to identify and map toxic waste sites ona the seabed, whether they have been covered with sediments or not. These results are applicable to any region on the seabed in the entire world.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 11, 2019
Series
Geophysical Sciences,
Contents
The SITAR Project: background, goals, project structure
The SITAR Project: background, goals, project structure
Methods
The parametric side-scan sonar instrument and synthetic aperture sonar processing
Multiple-aspect scattering (MAS) measurements
Acoustic models for scattering
Biotoxicity measurements: the nanoinjection technique
Processing tools for acoustic 3D images
Geographic Information Systems for risk assessment of seabed dumping sites
Experimental activities
Scaled multiple-aspect scattering tank experiments
Full-scale tank parametric side-scan sonar test
The sea trial site in Möja Söderfjärd: biological sampling
Acoustic sea trial in the Müja Süderfjärd dumpsite
Results
Geoacoustic inversion
Buried waste localization: the parametric, synthetic aperture, side-scan sonar
Buried waste inspection: acoustical images and inversion from multiple-aspect scattering
Results of the biotoxicity measurements
3D acoustical image analysis and feature extraction
Evaluation
GIS-based data presentation system
Biotoxicological methods
Acoustical methods
Conclusions
Conclusions.
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