Time-domain geoacoustic inversion of high-frequency chirp signal from a simple towed system

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 468-478

  Park, Cheolsoo ^a,b   Seong, Woojae ^a,b   Gerstoft, Peter ^a   Siderius, Martin ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^d SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Geoacoustic inversion; Horizontal array; Simple towed system; Time domain analysis; Very fast simulated reannealing (VFSR)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE FILTERS; CORRELATION METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

GEOACOUSTIC INVERSION; HIGH FREQUENCY CHIRP SIGNAL; HORIZONTAL ARRAY; TOWED SYSTEM;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 0242416010     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2003.816684     Document Type: Article

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