Acoustical Imaging of Extended Targets by means of Synthetic Aperture Sonar Technique

Acustica

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 992-999

  Tonard, Valérie ^a   Châtillon, Jacques ^a  

^a CPE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ALGORITHMS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REVERBERATION; SONAR; SPHERES; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ECHOES; IMAGE REPRESENTATION; SEABED; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR TECHNIQUE; TIME SPACE RESPONSE;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

EID: 0031271707     PISSN: 00017884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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