Acoustic proximity ranging in the presence of secondary echoes

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1593-1605

  Li, Xi ^a   Wu, Renbiao ^a,b   Rasmi, Srihari ^a   Li, Jian ^a   Cattafesta III, Louis N ^a   Sheplak, Mark ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b CIVIL AVIATION UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Acoustic transducer; Proximity ranging; Secondary echoes; Time delay estimation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ALGORITHMS; ECHO SUPPRESSION; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ACOUSTIC RANGING; PROXIMITY RANGING; SECONDARY ECHOES; TIME DELAY ESTIMATION;

RANGE FINDING;

EID: 0242468153     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2003.817907     Document Type: Article

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