Performance bounds for passive sensor arrays operating in a turbulent medium: Plane-wave analysis

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2704-2718

  Collier, S L ^a   Wilson, D K ^a,b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; GEOMETRY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSORS;

PASSIVE SENSOR ARRAYS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; GEOMETRY; PARAMETER; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND DETECTION; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 0038033117     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1554691     Document Type: Article

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