Development of a seafloor acoustic ranging system toward the seafloor cable network system

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 14-15, 2008, Pages 1401-1405

  Osada, Yukihito ^a   Kido, Motoyuki ^a   Fujimoto, Hiromi ^a   Kaneda, Yoshiyuki ^b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic ranging; Seafloor cable network system; Seafloor crustal movement

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

ACOUSTIC RANGING; SEA FLOORS; SEAFLOOR CABLE NETWORK SYSTEM; SEAFLOOR CRUSTAL MOVEMENT;

RANGE FINDING;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; ACOUSTIC SURVEY; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SEAFLOOR; TRAVEL TIME; WATER DEPTH;

EID: 50949125981     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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