Subcritical detection of an elongated target buried under a rippled interface

Ocean '04 - MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04: Bridges across the Oceans - Conference Proceedings

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 1945-1952

  Nesbitt, C L ^a   Lopes, J L ^a  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIED TARGETS; MINE COUNTERMEASURES (MCM); RIPPLED INTERFACES; TARGET DETECTION;

BACKSCATTERING; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA PROCESSING; FREQUENCIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR; TARGETS; TRANSDUCERS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 19544382658     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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