A portable matched-field processing system using passive acoustic time synchronization

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 696-710

  Thode, Aaron M ^a   Gerstoft, Peter ^a   Burgess, William C ^b   Sabra, Karim G ^a   Guerra, Melania ^a   Stokes, M Dale ^a   Noad, Michael ^c   Cato, Douglas H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Greeneridge Sciences Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustic arrays; Acoustic beam steering; Marine animals; Underwater acoustic arrays; Underwater acoustics; Underwater technology

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC NOISE; AUDIO RECORDINGS; MAMMALS; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT;

MARINE MAMMALS; PORTABLE MATCHED-FIELD PROCESSING; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; UNDERWATER TECHNOLOGY;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EID: 33947388758     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2006.880431     Document Type: Article

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