Design and assessment of a low-cost 3-D sonar imaging system based on a sparse array

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 410-415

  Repetto, S ^a   Palmese, M ^a   Trucco, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

3 D acoustic imaging; Beamforming; Sparse planar arrays; Underwater sonar imaging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; BEAMFORMING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTIMIZATION; SENSORS; SONAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; UNDERWATER IMAGING;

SONAR IMAGING SYSTEMS; SPARSE PLANAR ARRAYS; UNDERWATER SONAR IMAGING;

IMAGING SYSTEMS;

EID: 36048978156     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IMTC.2006.236937     Document Type: Conference Paper

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