Yellow Shark spring 1995: Inversion results from sparse broadband acoustic measurements over a highly range-dependent soft clay layer

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 637-651

  Siderius, Martin ^a   Hermand, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLAY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; ITALY; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SIMULATION;

EID: 0032811494     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.427083     Document Type: Article

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