The effect of multipath on the envelope statistics of bottom clutter

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 848-861

  Abraham, Douglas A ^a  

^a CausaSci LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Active sonar; Clutter; Kappa distribution; Multipath

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM VARIABLES; REMOTE SENSING; SONAR; STATISTICS;

ACTIVE SONAR; CLUTTER; KAPPA-DISTRIBUTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 40749143979     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2007.906984     Document Type: Article

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