AI RESEARCH
Sonar-GPS Fusion for Seabed Mapping in Turbid Shallow Waters with an Autonomous Surface Vehicle
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2605.01949v1 Announce Type: cross Accurate seabed mapping is essential for habitat monitoring and infrastructure inspection. In turbid, shallow coastal waters, such as shellfish aquaculture farms, the effectiveness of traditional optical methods is limited. Autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) equipped with forward-looking sonar (FLS) offer a promising alternative. However, existing sonar-based systems face challenges in achieving fine resolution mapping over long trajectories due to low-resolution positioning measurements and accumulated drift over long trajectories.