Target echo enhancement using a single-element time reversal mirror

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 912-920

  Pautet, L ^a   Tesei, A ^a   Guerrini, P ^a   Pouliquen, E ^a  

^a NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic scattering; Sonar measurement; Time reversal accoustics; Underwater acoustics; Underwater object detection

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SONAR; TRANSCEIVERS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

SONAR MEASUREMENT; TARGET ECHO ENHANCEMENT; TIME REVERSAL ACOUSTICS; UNDERWATER OBJECT DETECTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 33144475201     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2005.862131     Document Type: Review

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