SFOMC: Facility Chart and SFTF Range

Facility Chart and SFTF Range
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Existing SFTF Range and
Planned SFOMC Expansion
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60 FT. AREA

EXISTING
- Shallow Water Acoustic Range (SWAR);
- Shallow Water Electro-Magnetic Range (SWER);
- Port Everglades ADCP;
- Forward Area Combined Degaussing and Acoustic Range (FACDAR-in 30 ft.)

PLANNED EXPANSION
- AUV Docking Station (power and data transmission);
- Modem system with transmitter and 32 channel receive array
with 40khz window up to 250khz;
- Cyclesonde Autonomous Profiler to measure currents and buoyancy;
- 5 head ADCP;
- Ambient noise sonar;
- 2-Environmental arrays (current, temp, conductivity, and salinity versus depth)

600 FT. AREA

EXISTING
- Submarine Tracking,
- Navigation and Communications Systems;
- Intermediate Depth Electro-Magnetic Array (IDEA);
- Deep ADCP

PLANNED EXPANSION
- 3-32 element acoustic arrays (1 vertical, 2 horizontal);
- 2-Environmental arrays (current, temp, conductivity, and salinity versus depth)

MINE FIELDS

EXISTING
- Deep mixed submarine field

PLANNED EXPANSION
- Bottom and buried field;
- Shallow suspended field

OTHER PLANNED ADDITIONS

Shore Side
- Ocean Current Surface Radar (OSCAR) system

Portable Systems
- 3-32 channel acoustic arrays with thermisters (NRL, UM, WHOI);
- 10 channel thermister array (UM); Miami Sound Machine (UM);
- LWAD Assets-Bathymetry, geo-acoustic survey, NRL high frequency imaging sonar

AUV's (ONR/FAU) with following capabilities:
- Low and high frequency side scan sonar;
- Multi-beam passive sonar arrays;
- CTD;
- ADCP;
- Sub-bottom sonar;
- Turbidity sensor;
- Video camera;
- Acoustic imager;
- Buried object imager (towed)

PLANNED INITIAL EXPERIMENTS

- AUV Mine Hunting;
- Adverse Weather Experiment;
- AUV Docking Facility and Communications;
- 4-Dimmensional Current Experiment;
- Environmental Data Acquisition and Analysis;
- Fluctuation, Coherence and Predictability of Very Long Range Shallow Water Propagation;
- Biological and Geological Inventory and Assessment

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If you would like additional information, please contact:

[SFOMC logo] Tom Metz,
Detachment Director,
South Florida Testing Facility
Telephone: (954) 926-4000
Fax: (954) 926-4031