An experimental demonstration of blind ocean acoustic tomography

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1420-1431

  Jesus, Sérgio M ^a   Soares, Cristiano ^a   Coelho, Emanuel ^b   Picco, Paola ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^b NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c ENEA Marine Environment Research Centre   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

BLIND OCEAN ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY TESTS; OCEAN MONITORING TECHNIQUES; SOURCE-RECEIVER PROPAGATION;

TOMOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BLIND OCEAN ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EQUIPMENT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33644657471     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2165070     Document Type: Article

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