Coherent acoustic communication in a tidal estuary with busy shipping traffic

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3495-3506

  Van Walree, Paul A ^a   Neasham, Jeffrey A ^b   Schrijver, Marco C ^c  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Zeeland Department   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; BEAMFORMING; DECISION FEEDBACK EQUALIZERS; ESTUARIES; MODEMS; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION;

ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION; SHIPPING TRAFFIC; TIDAL ESTUARY;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ESTUARY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MODULATION; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SHIPPING; TELEPHONE; TRAFFIC;

ACOUSTICS; COMMUNICATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; ENVIRONMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MODEMS; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEAWATER; SHIPS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 38849199371     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2793706     Document Type: Article

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