Improvements in acoustic sediment concentration profiling using an LMS compensation algorithm

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 96-104

  Shen, Chang ^a,b   Lemmin, Ulrich ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attenuation compensation; Backscattering; Concentration

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ALGORITHMS; ATTENUATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR COMPENSATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; WHITE NOISE;

FIXED ECHO NOISE;

SEDIMENTS;

EID: 0032048325     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/48.664089     Document Type: Article

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