Diy Side Scan Sonar Plans

This side scan sonar is designed to tackle this situation.

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. The side scan sonar is needed to increase the area that the fathometer covers in searching. Range scale 250 single side displayed. It is designed a long range system that will cover the maximum possible area.

Mark s side scan sonar is towed a few feet below the surface behind his boat to reveal wrecks which he then dives on. 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. The only person who managed to build great home brewn transducers is garry burton. 0 7 x 30 range resolution.

Range scale 500. These units are intended to work when mounted on to the bottom of a boat. 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. To sum up it is unfortunately not possible to buy a good working side scan sonar oneself and there are no plans out there.

1 8 x 60 800 khz. 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. Mbtelectronics has an embedded link to a free pdf of the studied diy sss side scan sonar unit. Ketcham in october of 1899.

Windows xp vista 7 8 10. Sidescan sonar kit underwater hardware specifications. It really depends on how far you want to see and with what resolution. Best wishes christian linkback.

There are lots of high dollar commercial side scan units but hummingbird. At its most basic a sidescan like any active sonar sends out a ping of sound and then listens for the response. The sss projects have all failed. The schooner which was carrying a cargo of coal was rammed in the stern.

With an efficient transducer and lots of effective power an area hundreds of feet wide can be searched by the system. Suffice to say this is not a trivial task. It is near impossible to build ones own transducers. Yes a diy sss unit you can build yourself.