High-frequency scattering from saturated sand sediments

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2818-2823

  Greenlaw, Charles F ^a   Holliday, D V ^a   McGehee, Duncan E ^a  

^a BAE SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; DATA ACQUISITION; SAND; SCATTERING; SEDIMENTS; TOWERS;

ECHO SOUNDER; GRAZING ANGLES; SCATTERING STRENGTH;

MEASUREMENT THEORY;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ECHOLOCATION; FREQUENCY ANALYZER; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GEOMETRY; MICROPHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; UNITED STATES; VELOCITY;

EID: 2942691573     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1707085     Document Type: Article

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