Recommendations for enhancing the role of the auditory modality for processing sonar data

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 986-1005

  Arrabito, G Robert ^a   Cooke, Brian E ^b   McFadden, Sharon M ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b General Dynamics Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auditory display; Aural enhancements; Operator performance; Sonar processing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; DATA REDUCTION; HEADPHONES; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TARGETS;

AUDITORY DISPLAY; AURAL ENHANCEMENTS; OPERATOR PERFORMANCE; SONAR PROCESSING;

SONAR;

EID: 18144384759     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2004.11.010     Document Type: Review

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