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Bathymetric Surveying In Lake Superior: 3d Modeling And Sonar Equipment Comparing, Eugene Levin, Guy Meadows, Roman Shults, Utku Karacelebi, Hasan Salih Kulunk

School of Technology Publications

This paper represents the overview of hydrographic surveying and different types of modern and traditional surveying equipment, and data acquisition using the traditional single beam sonar system and a modern fully autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) IVER3. During the study, the data sets were collected using the vehicles of the Great Lake Research Center at Michigan Technological University. This paper presents how to process and edit the bathymetric data on SonarWiz5. Lastly, it compares the accuracy of the two different sonar systems in the different missions and creates 3D models to display and understand the elevations changes. Moreover, the 3D models …