Calculation of the Shape of a Towed Underwater Acoustic Array

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 193-203

  Howard, Bernard E ^a   Syck, James M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b Naval Underwater Systems Center ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic towed array; hydrophone; numerical approximation; numerical interpolation; tic spline; twisted quar ; two point boundary conditions

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURVEY; ARRAY-SHAPE CALCULATION; HYDROPHONE; INTERPOLATION TECHNIQUE;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; HYDROPHONES; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - INTERPOLATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING - DIGITAL TECHNIQUES; SONAR;

HYDROPHONES POSITION; TOWED UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC ARRAY; TWISTED CUBIC SPLINE; TWISTED QUARTIC SPLINE;

ACOUSTICS, UNDERWATER;

EID: 0027009588     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: 15581691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/48.126976     Document Type: Article

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