A passive fathometer technique for imaging seabed layering using ambient noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1315-1323

  Siderius, Martin ^a   Harrison, Chris H ^b   Porter, Michael B ^a  

^a HLS Research Inc   (United States)

^b NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREEN'S FUNCTION; HYDROPHONES; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; REFLECTION; SENSORS;

AMBIENT NOISE; FATHOMETERS; IMPULSES; SEABED LAYERING;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; FATHOMETER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; SENSOR; SIMULATION; SOUND INTENSITY;

EID: 33748532841     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2227371     Document Type: Article

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