Programme

Please note that the conference program is not final and may be adjusted.


Tuesday 6 May

09:00 – 12:00Registration
12:00Lunch (Stara Wędzarnia restaurant)
13:00 – 13:30Symposium opening
13:30 – 14:00Invited speech Environmental monitoring though underwater acoustics in very shallow waters: 20 years of research in the Venice Lagoon, Italy – Fantina Madricardo,CNR-ISMAR Team
14:00 – 14:20Year-round observations of underwater noise at the Słupsk Bank (South Baltic Sea) – Zygmunt Klusek, Agata Dragan-Górska, Jaromir Jakacki
14:20 – 14:40Analysis of dispersion effects in sound propagation in shallow water using theory of space-time horizontal Rays – Boris Katsnelson, Alexander Kaplun
14:40 – 15:00Passive acoustics in the monitoring of glacier calving in the Arctic – Jarosław Tęgowski, Oskar Głowacki, Michał Ciepły, Małgorzata Błaszczyk, Jacek Jania, Mateusz Moskalik, Philippe Blondel, Grant B. Deane
15:00 – 15:40Coffee break
15:40 – 16:10Invited speech Sample applications of machine and deep learning in remote sensing – Zbigniew Łubniewski
16:10 – 16:30The influence of the shallow seabed configuration on hydroacoustic communication with an object buried in the bottom sediments – Jacek Marszal, Iwona Kochańska, Roman Salamon
16:30 – 16:50Sponsor presentation – NORBIT Subsea High-Resolution Multibeam Sonar Systems and Their Applications in Underwater Archaeology – Aleksandra Kruss
16:50 – 17:10Semi-Supervised Learning for sediment classification using Convolutional Neural Networks with Digital Elevation Model and backscatter data – Paweł Nadachowski, Zbigniew Łubniewski, Karolina Trzcińska, Maria Rucińska, Radosław Wróblewski, Jarosław Tęgowski,
17:10 – 17:30Pockmark research and assessment of underwater groundwater discharge in the Puck Bay using an interdisciplinary research approach – Marta Misiewicz, Jakub Idczak, Maciej Matciak
17:30-17:50Sound transmission loss in Hornsund fjord, Svalbard: changes due to climate shift and their potential consequences – Pavani Vithana Madugeta Vidanamesthrige, Natalia Gorska
19:00Icebreaking party (Stara Wędzarnia restaurant)

Wednesday 7 May

09:00 – 09:30Invited speech An explanation of the empirical range-rate relationship in underwater acoustic communications – Paul van Walree
09:30 – 09:50Evaluation of selected modulation techniques in underwater multipath channel – Andrzej Żak, Agnieszka Czapiewska, Andrzej Łuksza, Ryszard Studański, Łukasz Wojewódka
09:50 – 10:10Doppler Spread estimation dedicated to Multiple Binary Frequency Shift Keying – Łukasz Wojewódka, Agnieszka Czapiewska, Andrzej Łuksza, Ryszard Studański, Andrzej Żak
10:10 – 10:30Underwater communication system with hardware implementation for a point-to-point link – Rafał Pilarski
10:30 – 10:50Coffee break
10:50 – 11:20Probabilistic theory of acoustic noise – Tadeusz Banek
11:20 – 11:40Underwater acoustic communications with objects near the bottom of the water body –  Iwona Kochańska, Aleksander M. Schmidt and Jan H. Schmidt
11:40 – 12:00Commercial off the shelf D class amplifier for underwater digital transmission – Aleksander Schmidt, Jan H. Schmidt, Iwona Kochańska
12:30Lunch (Stara Wędzarnia restaurant)
14:00 – 14:20Modal structure of the broadband sound signal in a coastal wedge in the presence of internal waves – Boris Katsnelson, Andrey Lunkov, Mariya Shermeneva, Ernest Uzhansky
14:20 – 14:40Investigation of the systematic bias of the direction of arrival estimation using the Prony method applied to an interferometric echosounder – Piotr Grall, Jacek Marszal
14:40 – 15:00Investigations of column separation impact onto pressure waves severity based on results of water hammer experiments in an elastically supported pipeline – Sławomir Henclik
15:00 – 15:20Mimicry in underwater communication – methods and perspectives – Krzysztof Władysław Zuber
15:20 – 15:40Unified approach to acoustic and electromagnetic field theory based on control engineering methods – Tomasz Stefański, Tomasz Białaszewski, Marek Grzegorek, Jakub Wszołek
15:40 – 16:00Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00Poster session
17:00 – 17:30Poster competition for young scientists committee and announcement of results
20:00Gala dinner (symposium hall)

Thursday 8 May

09:00-13:30Excursion
13:30Lunch (Stara Wędzarnia restaurant)
14:30 – 15:00Invited speech Automated estimation of offshore polymetallic nodule abundance based on seafloor imagery using deep learning – Arkadiusz Tomczak, Karol Kabała, Tomasz Koguta
15:00 – 15:10Sponsor presentation – Escort Technology
15:10 – 15:20The use of sonar to study wrecks at the bottom of seas and rivers – on the examples of own experience – Paweł Mikołajewski
15:20 – 15:40Pioneering hydroacoustic exploration of the southern Baltic Sea: first comprehensive study and its implications – Łukasz Janowski
15:40 – 16:00Seafloor hydroacoustic imaging of the Baltic Sea: Spectral and wavelet parametrization for subglacial feature identification – Marcelina Kasuła, Karolina Trzcińska, Jarosław Tęgowski
16:00 – 16:30Coffee break
16:30 – 16:50Sponsor presentation – DHI Underwater noise modelling –– supporting environmentally responsible investment decisions – Marta Nocoń, Magda Chreptowicz
16:50 – 17:10Application of Boundary Element Method for fish target strength to length calculation – Marek Moszyński
17:10 – 17:30Approaches for tracking indirect kinematic data of sonar contacts – Tina Wunderlich, Ron-Marco Friedrich, Dennis Kunde-Riemer, Ralf Siegfried
17:30 – 17:50Sponsor presentation – Elac Sonar
19:00Dinner (Stara Wędzarnia restaurant)

Friday 9 May

09:00 – 09:30Invited speech Would the world appear the same if no one were present to observe it? (fish avoidance of research vessels) – Natalia Gorska
09:30 – 09:50Measurements and predictions of transmission of metrics of high-intensity noise emitted by pile driving – a case study – Zygmunt Klusek, Jakub Idczak
9:50 – 10:10Effects of detector depth on passive acoustic estimates of Harbour Porpoise abundance in the Baltic Sea – Aleksander Żytko, Zygmunt Klusek
10:10 – 10:30
Application of Finite Element Method for underwater transducer design – Marek Moszyński
10:30 – 11:00Coffee break
11:00 – 11:20Compensation of a nonlinear channel using OTFS modulation – Kamil Stawiarski
11:20 – 11:40Tests of acoustic underwater communications using OTFS modulation – Kamil Stawiarski, Łukasz Wojewódka, Rafał Pilarski, Ryszard Studański, Andrzej Łuksza, Agnieszka Czapiewska, Andrzej Żak
11:40 – 12:00Speech competition for young scientists committee and announcement of results
12:00Symposium summary
13:00Lunch (Stara Wędzarnia restaurant)