Statistical estimation of transmission loss from geoacoustic inversion using a towed array

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2571-2579

  Goh, Yong Han ^a,c   Gerstoft, Peter ^a   Hodgkiss, William S ^a   Huang, Chen Fen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC NOISE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

GEOACOUSTIC INVERSIONS; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION; TRANSMISSION LOSS (TL);

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ERROR; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 38049039775     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2782915     Document Type: Article

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