Optimal Asset Distribution for Environmental Assessment and Forecasting Based on Observations, Adaptive Sampling, and Numerical Prediction

3 Technical Approach 3 3.1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.2 Ocean Science Focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2.1 Scientific Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2.2 Scientific Objective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.3 Metric Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3.1 Coverage Metric for Minimizing Synoptic Error . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.3.2 Dynamics Metric for Maximizing Sampling of Important Phenomena . . 9 3.3.3 Uncertainty metric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.4 Metric Optimization and Derivation of Sampling Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.4.1 Synoptic Error Minimization Using Coordinated Control . . . . . . . . . 11 3.4.2 Adaptive Sampling for Feature Tracking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.4.3 Predictions, Adaptive Sampling and Data assimilation with HOPS/ESSE 13 3.4.4 Lagrangian Coherent Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 3.4.5 Optimal Procedures for Assessment of the Ocean Acoustic Environment . 16 3.5 Experimental Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17