Passive acoustic threat detection in estuarine environments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6945, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Borowski, Brian ^a   Sutin, Alexander ^a   Roh, Heui Seol ^a   Bunin, Barry ^a  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection; Diver; Passive; Port; Scuba; Security; Sonar; Underwater

Indexed keywords

(ALGORITHMIC) COMPLEXITY; ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; AMBIENT NOISE; APPLIED (CO); ATTENUATION ,; EFFECTIVE RANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONING; HARBOR SECURITY; HOMELAND SECURITY (HLS); HUDSON RIVER; IN ORDER; MAIN PARAMETERS; MANHATTAN; MARITIME SECURITY; NOISE LEVELS; PASSIVE ACOUSTIC DETECTION; PASSIVE DETECTION; PASSIVE SONAR; REFERENCE SIGNAL (RS); SHALLOW WATERS; SOUND PROPAGATION; SOURCE LEVELS; STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; THREAT DETECTION; TRANSMISSION LOSS (TL);

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DETECTORS; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; ESTIMATION; HYDROPHONES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; OPTICS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PHOTONICS; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SET THEORY; SHIPS; TECHNOLOGY; TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EID: 45149131323     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.779177     Document Type: Conference Paper

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