Russian scientists have created an antenna for marine vessels to search for fossils

Russian scientists have created a unique antenna for marine vessels that will allow for bottom stratification, search, detection or exploration of various objects located in the water column, on the bottom surface and in the sediment column, which will be useful, among other things, for the search for minerals. This was reported to Izvestia on May 4 at the Southern Federal University (SFU).

The antenna of the parametric bottom low-frequency profilograph will allow obtaining profiles of the seabed with depths up to 6 km, and the depth of profiling (penetration into the bottom soil) is provided up to 200 m. The 400 kg device will be installed on a vessel for seabed exploration at depths up to 6 km and penetration into the bottom soil up to 200 m (depending on the type), the SFU specified.

"The civilian vessel will operate as a geological exploration vessel and will allow analyzing the resources of the northern seas, for example, searching for minerals. In addition, an acoustic Doppler flow profiler antenna system will be installed on the vessel, a device that determines the speed of currents by remote method," said Pyotr Pivnev, head of the Hydroacoustic Systems and Complexes division.

Employees of the Hydroacoustic Systems and Complexes division of the Advanced Engineering School (PISH) together with the Acoustics Student Design Bureau of the Southern Federal University participated in the development of the antenna.

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