Beam patterns of an underwater acoustic vector hydrophone located away from any reflecting boundary

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 628-637

  Wong, Kainam Thomas ^a,b   Chi, Hoiming ^c  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic interferometry; Acoustic signal processing; Acoustic velocity measurement; Array signal processing; Direction of arrival estimation; Phased arrays; Sonar arrays; Sonar signal processing; Underwater acoustic arrays

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTERFEROMETRY;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; BANDWIDTH; HYDROPHONES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EID: 0036662055     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2002.1040945     Document Type: Article

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