Subbottom profiling using a ship towed line array and geoacoustic inversion

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3338-3352

  Yang, T C ^a   Yoo, Kwang ^a   Fialkowski, L T ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; BEAMFORMING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; SAMPLING; SHIPS;

BOTTOM LAYER STRUCTURE; GEOACOUSTIC INVERSION; SUBBOTTOM PROFILING;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; PARAMETER; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ACOUSTICS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; OCEANS AND SEAS; SHIPS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38849163735     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2799495     Document Type: Article

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