Performance bounds for acoustic direction-of-arrival arrays operating in atmospheric turbulence

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1306-1319

  Wilson, D Keith ^a  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC NOISE; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CALCULATIONS; ESTIMATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERFORMANCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ACOUSTIC DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ARRAYS; CRAMER-RAO LOWER BOUND; GAUSSIAN MODELS; KOLMOGOROV MODEL; VON KARMAN MODEL; WIND SHEAR;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTICS; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0032030952     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.421271     Document Type: Article

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