UNDERWATER SENSING SYSTEMS AND METHODS

The present invention includes systems and methods for improving the process of detecting and classifying objects of interest using UUVs to survey the ocean. According to a particular embodiment, the present invention provides a more cost-efficient process by employing preconfigured heuristic operational scenarios, or supervised machine learning to fine-tune this process by integrating the use of environmental variables relating to the water in which data is gathered, and more particularly for classifying sonar images of the seafloor.