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The multibeam water column (MWC) data can be used to extract and identify the gas plume efficiently and accurately. The current research methods mostly start from the perspective of image theory, which cannot identify the three-dimensional (3D) spatial structure features of gas plumes, reducing the efficiency and accuracy of detection. Therefore, this paper proposes a method for identifying and extracting the gas plume based on an MWC point cloud model, which calculates the spatially resolved homing of MWC data and constructs a 3D point cloud model of MWC containing acoustic reflection intensity information. It first performs noise suppression of the 3D point cloud of the MWC based on the symmetric subtraction and Otsu algorithm by leveraging the noise distribution of the MWC and the reflection intensity characteristics of the gas plume. Then, it extracts the point cloud clusters containing the gas plume based on Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) according to the density difference between the gas plume point cloud and the background MWC point cloud and next identifies the point cloud clusters by feature matching based on fast point feature histograms (FPFHs). Finally, it extracts the gas plume point cloud set in the MWC. As evidenced by the MWC data collected from gas hydrate enrichment zones in the Gulf of Mexico, the location of gas plume extracted by this method is highly consistent with that of gas leakage points measured during the cruise. Using this method, we obtained the point cloud data set of gas plume for the first time and accurately characterized the 3D spatial morphology of the subsea gas plume, providing technical support for gas hydrate exploration, subsea gas seepage area delineation, and subsea seepage gas flux estimation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14174387","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,8]],"date-time":"2022-09-08T04:18:32Z","timestamp":1662610712000},"page":"4387","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Extraction of Submarine Gas Plume Based on Multibeam Water Column Point Cloud Model"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Xin","family":"Ren","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Submarine Geosciences and Prospecting Techniques, MOE, OUC, Qingdao 266100, China"},{"name":"College of Marine Geoscience, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China"}]},{"given":"Dong","family":"Ding","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Submarine Geosciences and Prospecting Techniques, MOE, OUC, Qingdao 266100, China"},{"name":"College of Marine Geoscience, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China"}]},{"given":"Haosen","family":"Qin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Qingdao Survey & Mapping Institute, Qingdao 266032, China"}]},{"given":"Le","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Submarine Geosciences and Prospecting Techniques, MOE, OUC, Qingdao 266100, China"},{"name":"College of Marine Geoscience, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7157-8529","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Guangxue","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Submarine Geosciences and Prospecting Techniques, MOE, OUC, Qingdao 266100, China"},{"name":"College of Marine Geoscience, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China"},{"name":"Qingdao Blue Earth Big Data Technology Company Limited, Qingdao 266400, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"247","DOI":"10.1007\/BF00144504","article-title":"Role of methane clathrates in past and future climates","volume":"16","author":"MacDonald","year":"1990","journal-title":"Clim. 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