Modal scintillation index: A physics-based statistic for acoustic source depth discrimination

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 2170-2180

  Premus, V ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; DEPTH DETERMINATION; SEAWATER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCINTILLATION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SOUND PRESSURE; SOUND TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033005940     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.426821     Document Type: Article

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