[Legacy Report] Acoustic Remote Sensing Workshop and Chapter Meeting

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The workshop aimed to

•          Raise the awareness of the great potential and value of the acoustic remote sensing technology,
•          Promote dialog between mainstream remote sensing professionals and acoustic scientists,
•          Provide networking opportunity for GRSS members and participants, and
•          Promote the GRSS society to attract more people to become a member.

The workshop attached around 20 participants from several organisations. 

Three talks were given at the workshop. Dr Huang provided an introduction of the IEEE and GRSS including their visions and various member benefits. He also briefly introduced the objectives of the workshop. Dr Kloser’s talk in water column acoustic was an eyes-opener. He laid out the challenges facing the marine ecology. With examples, he demonstrated that acoustic remote sensing is the most effectively way of exploring and understanding marine ecosystem in deep water. It was amazing to learn the capabilities of various acoustic technologies that are currently used and being developed for remotely sensing the marine living resources beyond the reach of satellites. Dr Huang’s talk focused on the multibeam acoustic technology, a mature technique for mapping the vast and under-explored seabed. He illustrated a roadmap of multiebam seabed mapping, from raw data calibration, to spatial analysis and image processing, and to classification and prediction. With examples, he demonstrated that methods used in the mainstream remote sensing can be equally effective in the analysis of acoustic data. 

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