1 Chubanov St., 69600, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine

Phone: (0612) 13 4132; fax: (0612) 12 5125;
e-mail:cpas@zp.ukrtel.net

The principal areas of research:

– fundamental and applied studies and development of prototypes of hydroacoustic panoramic equipment for investigating water areas, detecting and searching for sunken objects, including small-sized ones, bottom relief studies, profiling and stratification of bottom sediments, monitoring the integrity of underwater engineering structures and prospecting mineral resources of the world ocean;

– development of special-purpose hydroacoustic and other radio electronic devices;

– studies and development of software-hardware complexes for monitoring the environment status of water areas;

– international cooperation in hydroacoustic studies of the world ocean with a view to involving advanced international experience, equipment and technologies for the progress of national economy and environment protection in Ukraine.

Working at the Centre is science school ‘Fundamental and applied studies of the world ocean, development of prototypes of hydroacoustic panoramic equipment for examining water areas’.

The Center proposes for cooperative completion advanced mobile hydroacoustic means to study the world ocean:

– ÅÌ-100 echo-sounding device;

– ÃÁÎ-100Ì, ÃÁÎ-50, ÃÁÎ-100ÌÏ side-scan sonars;

– ÏÃ profiler;

– a multi-purpose automated modular-block data-measuring complex providing automation of collecting and processing initial, interim and final information in studying sea-bottom relief and soil, geophysical and hydro-meteorological fields of the world ocean, environment ecological parameters.

The Center is developing a computer system for collecting, digital processing, registration, recording, storing and imaging information from all modules involved into the complex, as well as a hydroacoustic module containing single-beam and multi-beam echo-sounders, side scan sonars and hydroacoustic profilers. The hydroacoustic module provides simultaneous bottom relief mapping, sea-soil mapping, hydrographic creeping (detection of navigation hazards) and search for sunken objects, including low-sized and silt-covered ones.

The Marine Hydrophysical Institute is ready to develop a hydrological and a hydro-chemical module. The hydrological module is to provide temperature, electrical conductivity and hydrostatic pressure measurements, the hydro-chemical one – the measurement of water-dissolved oxygen concentration, the activity exponent of hydrogen ions, sulfides presence and sea water redox potential.

The research effort ‘Development of theoretical principles and fundamentals of modeling of hydroacoustic fields of geological structures’ is to be implemented jointly with the NAS Institute of Geological Sciences.