Novel physical interpretations of K-distributed reverberation

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 800-813

  Abraham, Douglas A ^a   Lyons, Anthony P ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clutter; K distribution; Non rayleigh; Reverberation; Scattering

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADAR CLUTTER; SONAR; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BEAMWIDTH; K-DISTRIBUTION; SEA-FLOOR SCATTERING;

REVERBERATION;

EID: 0036821284     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2002.804324     Document Type: Article

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