Pseudospectral time-domain modeling of non-Rayleigh reverberation: Synthesis and statistical analysis of a sidescan sonar image of sand ripples

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 317-329

  Elston, Gareth R ^a   Bell, Judith M ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTISPECTRAL SCANNERS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REVERBERATION; SONAR; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

NON RAYLEIGH REVERBERATION; PSEUDOSPECTRAL TIME DOMAIN MODELING; RAYLEIGH MIXTURE; SIDESCAN SONAR IMAGE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 3943095378     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2004.828206     Document Type: Article

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