An uncertainty model for deep ocean single beam and multibeam echo sounder data |
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| Authors: | K M Marks W H F Smith |
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| Institution: | (1) NOAA Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA |
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| Abstract: | Comparing single beam and multibeam echo sounder data where surveys overlap we find that: 95% of multibeam measurements are
repeatable to within 0.47% of depth; older single beam data can be at least as accurate as multibeam; single beam and multibeam
profiles show excellent agreement at full-wavelengths longer than 4 km; archival sounding errors are not Gaussian; 95% of
archival soundings in the northwest Atlantic are accurate to within 1.6% of depth; the 95th percentile error is about five
times greater in pre-1969 data than in post-1968 data; many of the largest errors are located over large seafloor slopes,
where small navigation errors can lead to large depth errors. Our uncertainty model has the form σ
2 = a
2 + (bz)2 + (cs)2, where 2σ is approximately the 95th percentile error, z is the depth, s is the slope, and a, b, c are constants we determine separately for pre-1969 and post-1968 data. |
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| Keywords: | Bathymetry Error Uncertainty Micronesia Atlantic Statistics |
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