Sonar for generalized target description and its similarity to animal echolocation systems

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1976, Pages 97-105

  Altes, Richard A ^a  

^a NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ECHOLOCATION; FISH; THEORETICAL STUDY; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMAL; CHIROPTERA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOLPHINS; ECHOLOCATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0017293848     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: NA     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.380831     Document Type: Article

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