IEEE Access (Jan 2018)

A Ray-Tracing Uncertainty Estimation Tool for Ocean Mapping

  • Giuseppe Masetti,
  • John G. W. Kelley,
  • Paul Johnson,
  • Jonathan Beaudoin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2781801
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6
pp. 2136 – 2144

Abstract

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A tool to estimate the ray-tracing component of the surveyed depth uncertainty was created and made publicly available through Web services and a Web geographic information system. The estimation is based on a spatial variability analysis at the time of validity of two popular, global-scope sources of oceanographic environmental data. The tool has potential applications in all the phases of ocean mapping, from survey planning to data collection and processing.

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