Direct measurement of sediment sound speed in Shallow Water '06

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Yang, Jie ^a   Tang, Dajun ^a   Williams, Kevin L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; MISSILE BASES; SEDIMENTATION; SPEED; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DIRECT MEASUREMENTS; FREQUENCY RANGING; IN-SITU; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SEDIMENT DEPTH; SHALLOW WATERS; SIGNAL ARRIVAL TIMES; SOUND PROPAGATION; SOUND SPEED; SPEED MEASUREMENTS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VELOCITY;

ACOUSTICS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; OCEANS AND SEAS; PILOT PROJECTS; RADAR; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 52449090700     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2963038     Document Type: Article

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