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Underwater high resolution monitoring of vast areas by Distributed Optical Fibre Acoustic Sensors

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Gilberto Brambilla

Associate Dean International
Connect with Gilberto

Email: gb2@orc.soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Paul White

Prof of Statistical Signal Processing

Research interests

  • Paul has research interests which include signal processing, underwater acoustics and bioacoustics (the way animals, especially marine mammals, use sound). He is primarily concerned with developing tools to assist in the computer-aided analysis of underwater sounds and understanding the role of those sounds in the marine environment.
  • Acoustics, in the form of sonar, is an important tool for the exploration of the marine environment. It is used by the seismic industry to locate oil and gas reserves, by the military to detect objects, by oceanographers to make measurements and by marine mammals to survive.
  • Man-made underwater acoustic systems rely upon computers to process the data coming from sensors to interpret the environment. The processing methods within the computer systems are a critical component often defining the overall success of the instrument.
Connect with Paul

Email: P.R.White@soton.ac.uk

Professor Jonathan Bull

Professor in Ocean & Earth Science

Research interests

  • Fluid Flow and Carbon Capture and Storage
  • Monitoring, Measurement and Verification
  • Marine Geophysics
Connect with Jonathan

Email: bull@soton.ac.uk

Professor Tim Minshull

Professor in Ocean & Earth Science

Research interests

  • Continental breakup and the onset of seafloor spreading
  • Methane hydrate beneath the seafloor and its role in the Earth system
  • Exploration geophysics: seismic and electromagnetic imaging
Connect with Tim

Email: tmin@soton.ac.uk

Dr Ali Masoudi

Principal Research Fellow
Connect with Ali

Email: A.Masoudi@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Surface deployment of DAS systems
Nicholas Harmon, Catherine A. Rychert, John Davis, Gilberto Brambilla, William Buffet, Ben Chichester, Yuhang Dai, Petros Bogiatzis, James Snook, Lieke van Putten & Ali Masoudi, 2022, Near Surface Geophysics, 20(5), 465-477
DOI: 10.1002/nsg.12232
Type: article
Polarization fading mitigation in distributed acoustic sensors based on a high-speed polarization rotator
Shahab Bakhtiari Gorajoobi, Ali Masoudi & Gilberto Brambilla, 2022, Optics Letters, 47(5), 1283-1286
DOI: 10.1364/OL.450388
Type: article
152km-range single-ended distributed acoustic sensor based on in-line optical amplification and micromachined enhanced-backscattering fiber
Ali Masoudi, Gilberto Brambilla & Martynas Beresna, 2021, Optics Letters, 46(3), 552-555
DOI: 10.1364/OL.413206
Type: article
An analysis of railway track behaviour based on distributed optical fibre acoustic sensing
David Milne, Ali Masoudi, Geoff Watson, Edgar Ferro & Louis Le Pen, 2020, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 142
DOI: 10.1016/j.ymssp.2020.106769
Type: article
Low-noise distributed acoustic sensing using enhanced backscattering fiber with ultra-low-loss point reflectors
Brandon Redding, Matthew Murray, Andrei Donko, Martynas Beresna, Ali Masoudi & Gilberto Brambilla, 2020, Optics Express, 28(10), 14638-14647
DOI: 10.1364/OE.389212
Type: article