Elaborazione di dati acustici per archeologia subacquea

The marine environment and the seafloor present very challenging conditions for a theoretical and experimental setting. Our basic activity is the full understanding of underwater scenes acquired by AUVs through the integration of acoustic and optical data. In our work we used a sidescan sonar and an optic device (e.g. a stereoscopic vision system composed of two analog underwater cameras). Sonar and vision devices operate on different physical principles, provide different types of information, and they generally run at best in different conditions. The framework is Arrows, an FP7 project of EU, intended to develop technologies and methods supporting underwater archaeology.