Instrumentation and data management for geoacoustic characterization of shallow water sediments

In order to study the geoacoustic relations for shallow water sediments, a project has started in 2014, bringing together French academic and industrial partners. One of this project objectives is to build a large database of acoustical and sedimentological parameters collected in-situ with specific devices. Therefore, an important task is to manage the data acquisition, storage, and exploitation. A two-step process has been designed to achieve this: first, a mobile application which helps the users during the measurements, and second a relational database system which gathers all the data and favors their exploitation. The first dataset come from extensive measurements on the French coastlines. The data acquisition, visualization, and exploitation have been considerably facilitated with this data management system.