Estimation of transmission loss in the presence of geoacoustic inversion uncertainty

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 299-307

  Gerstoft, Peter ^a   Huang, Chen Fen ^a   Hodgkiss, William S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Geoacoustic inversion; SAGA; Sonar performance prediction; Transmission loss prediction

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; CURVE FITTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SONAR; STATISTICAL METHODS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

GEOACOUSTIC INVERSION; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; TRANSMISSION LOSS PREDICTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 33750140815     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2006.875104     Document Type: Article

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