High-frequency volume and boundary acoustic backscatter fluctuations in shallow water

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 707-725

  Gallaudet, Timothy C ^a   De Moustier, Christian P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REVERBERATION;

MULTIBEAM IMAGING;

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

SEA WATER;

ACOUSTIC WAVE; ACOUSTICS; BACKSCATTER; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; SHALLOW WATER;

ACOUSTICS; AIR; ARTICLE; FISH; IMAGING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SEA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ACOUSTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER;

EID: 0042569140     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1588656     Document Type: Article

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