Displaced ping imaging autofocus for a multi-hydrophone SAS

IEE Proceedings: Radar, Sonar and Navigation

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 163-170

  Gough, P T ^a   Miller, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ALGORITHMS; HYDROPHONES; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

AUTOFOCUSING ALGORITHMS; DIFFERENTIAL SWAY; DIFFERENTIAL YAW; RANDOM SWAY ERRORS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR;

EID: 3242768381     PISSN: 13502395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-rsn:20040420     Document Type: Article

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