Backscatter from a limestone seafloor at 2-3.5 kHz: Measurements and modeling

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2501-2514

  Soukup, Raymond J ^a   Gragg, Robert F ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

GRAZING ANGLE;

ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

BACKSCATTER; BED ROUGHNESS; LIMESTONE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; SEAFLOOR;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOUND; TECHNOLOGY;

ACOUSTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOUND;

EID: 0037696181     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1558039     Document Type: Article

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