Signal excess in K-distributed reverberation

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 526-536

  Abraham, Douglas A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Clutter; Detection threshold; K distribution; Non Rayleigh; Reverberation; Signal excess

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; REVERBERATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ACTIVE SONAR SYSTEM; BEAMFORMING; MATCHED FILTERING; REVERBERATION POWER RATIO; SHALLOW WATER; SIGNAL EXCESS;

SONAR;

EID: 0242583799     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2003.816675     Document Type: Article

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