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Project TOMPACO

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Tomografia Passiva Costiera (TOMPACO)

TOMPACO aims at estimating ocean temperature structure by using the noise produced by ships of opportunity. This project is coordinated by DUNE with partners OGS and Thetis (Italy), while CINTAL acts as DUNE subcontractor. This project is funded by CNR (Italy) and has a duration of 3 years.


Abstract:

The TOMPACO project (TOMPACO stands for ''TOMografia PAssiva COstiera'' - Passive Coastal Tomography), aims at developing and testing ocean tomography techniques for obtaining a dense space-time acoustic griding at low cost, by relaxing the control on the source signal and geometry. In practice this means using alternative acoustic sources readily available in the ocean such as, for example, the noise radiated by ships of opportunity close or crossing the area of interest. The main challenge faced by passive tomography, and therefore by TOMPACO, is to account for the unpredictability of the sound source in the tomographic procedure. That unpredictability relates both to the source emitted signal and to the source-receiver geometry. The study of the impact of these two factors in the acoustic tomographic inversion process is the main goal of the TOMPACO project.


Objectiv(e)s:

The objective of project TOMPACO can be summarized as follows:
  • the main objective of this project is to develop a new method for underwater acoustic tomography that uses as source signal the noise emitted by ships of opportunity, received on vertical arrays distributed along the coast, with the objective of measuring the water temperature and currents of oceanographic interest.

Partnership

Main contractor

DUNE Ingegneria dei Sistemi Srl, Via Tracia 4, IT-00183 Roma, Italia

ENEA logo ENEA, Italy

Partners

Thetis logo Thetis, Italy

OGS logo OGS, Italy

Subcontractors

Cintal logo CINTAL - Univ. of Algarve

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