Publication Date:
2023-06-06
Description:
Height modernization in hydrographic surveying refers to measuring the depth with reference to the ellipsoid, which has two major advantages. Firstly, it is tide-independent, eliminating the errors that may result from tidal correction. Secondly, bathymetric results from different countries or regions can reference to a common surface, i.e., the WGS84 Ellipsoid. In this research, we will integrate Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and Inertial Navigation System (INS) using both loosely and tightly coupled schemes to improve the attitude and positioning accuracy, especially in the vertical direction. The improved attitude data can be used for vessel attitude corrections, while the sound velocity must be corrected based on the records from the sound velocity profiler (SVP). By combining the positioning results, the vertical offsets between the GNSS antenna and the multibeam echosounder, and the processed hydrographic measurements, the ellipsoidal height of the seabed can be obtained. In this study, hydrographic surveying is conducted using an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) equipped with a multibeam sonar sounder in several harbors, including An-ping, Jiang-jun, and Wu-shi, in Taiwan. The USV’s light weight, shallow draft, and high maneuverability make it ideal for navigating shallow waters and berthing areas that may be inaccessible to manned vessels. The collected hydrographic data will be processed using both the proposed method and CARIS HIPS and SIPS software, which takes GPS tide into account and the results from both methods will be compared to evaluate the effectiveness of height modernization in hydrographic surveying.
Language:
English
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
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