Long range acoustic imaging of the continental shelf environment: The Acoustic Clutter Reconnaissance Experiment 2001

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 4 I, 2005, Pages 1977-1998

  Ratilal, Purnima ^a,g   Lai, Yisan ^a   Symonds, Deanelle T ^a   Ruhlmann, Lilimar A ^a   Preston, John R ^b   Scheer, Edward K ^c   Garr, Michael T ^d   Holland, Charles W ^e   Goff, John A ^f   Makris, Nicholas C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^e NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^g NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SONAR; STATISTICS;

ECHO; RIVER CHANNELS; SEAFLOOR; SUBSURFACE;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DATA ANALYSIS; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RIVER; SAMPLING; SEA; SHIP; SOUND; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME; WAVEFORM;

EID: 20244382253     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1799252     Document Type: Article

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