The ROBLINKS underwater acoustic communication experiments

Within the EU-MAST III project ROBLINKS waveforms and algorithms have been developed to establish robust underwater acoustic communication links with high data rates ín shallow water. To evaluate the signalling schemes a wide range of experiments has been performed during a sea trial that has been held in May 1999 in the North Sea, off rhe Dutch coast. The resulting data set consists of recordings of the newly developed waveforms, of more conventional communication signals for comparison, and of signals to probe the acoustic channel. Environmental data have also been collected to analyze and understand the propagation conditions during the transmissions. The most interesting and illustrative part of the data set will be made available for further analysis after the end of the ROBLINKS projec