Diy Side Scan Sonar Plans

I plan to build a small autonomous twin pontoon survey craft that will map small bodies of water with the modified fish finder sonar and then use my srv ii to view interesting areas detected by the survey craft.

Diy side scan sonar plans. This side scan sonar is designed to tackle this situation. The sss projects have all failed. The side scan sonar is needed to increase the area that the fathometer covers in searching. Without a large easily detectable target looking for drowning victims alone is a difficult task requiring advanced sonar analysis skills and a bit of luck.

To sum up it is unfortunately not possible to buy a good working side scan sonar oneself and there are no plans out there. Suffice to say this is not a trivial task. With an efficient transducer and lots of effective power an area hundreds of feet wide can be searched by the system. Range scale 500.

Mark s side scan sonar is towed a few feet below the surface behind his boat to reveal wrecks which he then dives on. The schooner which was carrying a cargo of coal was rammed in the stern. Best wishes christian linkback. Ketcham in october of 1899.

There are lots of high dollar commercial side scan units but hummingbird. These units are intended to work when mounted on to the bottom of a boat. Mbtelectronics has an embedded link to a free pdf of the studied diy sss side scan sonar unit. It is near impossible to build ones own transducers.

1 8 x 60 800 khz. Lowrance structure scan will add some competition to the low end market. Side scan sonar image of schooner typo which collided with steamer w p. 0 7 x 30 range resolution.

Sidescan sonar kit underwater hardware specifications. It is designed a long range system that will cover the maximum possible area. Yes a diy sss unit you can build yourself. This article looks pre duino as it currently is in rev 1 post initial issue it has a current publishing of 2010 but as an electronics archeologist i can honestly assess the original design as pre atari.

4 side scan sonar image analysis probably one of the most difficult search operations requires locating a drowning victim without some type of vehicle or automobile to act as a guide. It really depends on how far you want to see and with what resolution. The sonar image shows the bow and upright foremast cargo hatches across typo s deck and the broken stern with a pile of spilled coal. Windows xp vista 7 8 10.