GEODESEA-2019 An experiment of seafloor geodesy in the Bay of Brest

In the framework of the ERC FOCUS project, the Geosciences Ocean Laboratory (LGO) organized, from July 22 to 26, 2019, an experiment of seafloor geodesy in the Bay of Brest, entitled Geodesea-2019.  The aim was to test acoustic beacons acquired for the FOCUS project and to test experimental protocols for seafloor positioning. The experiment was carried out from the Albert Lucas research station-vessel. The experiment was conducted in collaboration with the Laboratoire Environnement et Sociétés (LIENSs) from la Rochelle and the iXBlue company, in Brest.

Relative acoustic ranging was carried out during four days, each beacon ranging the other ones at a regular time interval, while acquiring auxiliary data (temperature, pressure, sound-speed) to be able to convert travel-times into distances. Absolute positioning of the beacons on the seafloor was also carried out using a small Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) on which a compact GNSS/Acoustic system was mounted, combining an Ultra Short Baseline (USBL), an inertial system (INS) and a GNSS receiver.

 
Citation proposal
Royer Jean-Yves (Lab. Géosciences Océan, CNRS & Univ. de Brest, Plouzané, France) - Ballu Valérie (Lab. Littoral Environnement et Sociétés, CNRS et Univ. La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France) - BEAUVERGER Mickael (Lab. Géosciences Océan, CNRS & Univ. de Brest, Plouzané, France) - Coulombier Thibault (Lab. Littoral Environnement et Sociétés, CNRS et Univ. La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France) - Morvan Pierre-Yves (Acoustic Positioning Division, iXBlue, Brest, France) - Urvoas Paul (Acoustic Positioning Division, iXBlue, Brest, France) - Chupin Clémence (Lab. Littoral Environnement et Sociétés, CNRS et Univ. La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France) - Sakic Pierre (GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam, Germany
) (2021) . GEODESEA-2019 An experiment of seafloor geodesy in the Bay of Brest. https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/seanoe:78593

Simple

Date ( Publication )
2021-11
Date ( Revision )
2021-05-19
Other citation details

Royer Jean-Yves, Ballu Valérie, Beauverger Mickael, Coulombier Thibault, Morvan Pierre-Yves, Urvoas Paul, Chupin Clémence, Sakic Pierre (2021). GEODESEA-2019 An experiment of seafloor geodesy in the Bay of Brest. SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/78593

In addition to properly cite this dataset, it would be appreciated that the following work(s) be cited too, when using this dataset in a publication :

Sakic Pierre, Chupin Clémence, Ballu Valérie, Coulombier Thibault, Morvan Pierre-Yves, Urvoas Paul, Beauverger Mickael, Royer Jean-Yves (2021). Geodetic Seafloor Positioning Using an Unmanned Surface Vehicle—Contribution of Direction-of-Arrival Observations. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9, -. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.636156

Credit

We wish to thank all participants for the success of the Geodesea-2019 experiment:

- LGO: Jean-Yves Royer (PI), Mickael Beauverger, Charles Poitou, Marc-André Gutscher

- LIENSs: Valérie Ballu, Thibault Coulombier, Clémence Chupin

- IXblue: Paul Urvoas, Pierre-Yves Morvan, Yoann Caudal, Corinne Le Guicher

- SV Albert Lucas: Frank Quéré, Robin Carlier

- The Canopus beacons and the Geodesea-2019 experiment were funded by the ERC FOCUS, the LGO, the LIENSs and the French Oceanographic Fleet, with support from the IXblue company for the preparation of the beacons and the implementation of their equipment.

  Author

  Author

  Author

  Author

  Author

  Author

  Author

  Author

  Publisher

Keywords ( Theme )
  • Seafloor Geodesy , Acoustic ranging , GNSS/Acoustics , Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) , Physical oceanography
ODATIS aggregation parameters and Essential Variable names ( Theme )
  • Bathymetry
SeaDataNet Parameter Disciplines ( parameter )
  • Physical oceanography
Type de jeux de donnée ODATIS ( Theme )
  • Observational data
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Date ( Publication )
2021

  Publisher

  Author

  Author

  Author

  Author

  Author

  Author

  Author

  Author

Association Type
Cross reference
Initiative Type
Study
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Oceans
N
S
E
W


Distribution format
  • PDF ( )

  • CSV ( )

  • TEXTE ( )

OnLine resource
Experiment description - 1004 KB  

Experiment description - 1004 KB

OnLine resource
Quality controlled data  

GNSSA Data - 8 MB

OnLine resource
Quality controlled data  

Ranging data - 709 KB

OnLine resource
DOI of the product  
OnLine resource
Seanoe  
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Statement

Metadata

File identifier
seanoe:78593   XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2021-05-19
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

  Point of contact

 
 

  Overviews

The 4 Canopus acoustic beacons in their fancy pink sleeves, mounted on tripods

Provided by

Access to the portal

Associated resources

Not available