Chirp sub-bottom profiler source signature design and field testing

Marine Geophysical Research

Volumn 23, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 481-492

  Gutowski, Martin ^a   Bull, Jon ^a   Henstock, Tim ^a   Dix, Justin ^a   Hogarth, Peter ^b   Leighton, Tim ^c   White, Paul ^c  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b GeoAcoustics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chirp; High resolution seismics; Marine seismics; Reflection seismics; Seismic sources

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CORRELATION METHODS; MARINE ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SONAR;

FREQUENCY BANDS; FREQUENCY FUNCTIONS; SOURCE SIGNATURES;

GEOPHYSICS;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; PROFILER; SEAFLOOR MAPPING;

EID: 2142716952     PISSN: 00253235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:mari.0000018247.57117.0e     Document Type: Article

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