Towards better sonar performance predictions

Oceans Conference Record (IEEE)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2002, Pages 352-357

  Vosbein, H Terrill ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; BATHYMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROFILOMETRY; REVERBERATION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

RIPPLES;

SONAR;

EID: 0038308961     PISSN: 01977385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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