Simulation of non-Rayleigh reverberation and clutter

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 347-362

  Abraham, Douglas A ^a   Lyons, Anthony P ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIR FILTERS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR CLUTTER; REVERBERATION; SONAR; STATISTICAL TESTS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACTIVE SONAR REVERBERATION; ACTIVE SONAR SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; NON RAYLEIGH CLUTTER; NON RAYLEIGH REVERBERATION; REVERBERATION ENVELOPE STATISTICS;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 3943110972     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2004.828202     Document Type: Article

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