High-frequency subcritical acoustic penetration into a sandy sediment

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 346-361

  Jackson, Darrell R ^a   Williams, Kevin L ^a   Thorsos, Eric I ^a   Kargl, Steven G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic scattering; Buried object detection; Mine countermeasures; Sonar detection; Sonar scattering

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; FREQUENCIES; HYDROPHONES; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SONAR;

ACOUSTIC PENETRATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0036661628     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2002.1040923     Document Type: Article

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