Tonpilz Piezoelectric Transducers with Acoustic Matching Plates for Underwater Color Image Transmission

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 121-130

  Inoue, Takeshi ^a   Nada, Takatoshi ^a   Miyama, Tetsuo ^a   Tsuchiya, Toshio ^b   Nakanishi, Toshiyuki ^b   Konno, Masashi ^c  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b Radio Application Division NEC Corporation ^*  (Japan)

^c SENSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DESIGN; OCEANOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC IMAGING; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC MATCHING PLATES; OCEAN SUBSURFACES; UNDERWATER IMAGE TRANSMISSION;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 0027558905     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/58.212560     Document Type: Article

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