Devising an affordable sonar system for underwater 3-D vision

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2348-2354

  Trucco, Andrea ^a   Palmese, Maria ^a   Repetto, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Real time 3 D acoustic camera; Simulation of underwater acoustic signals; Sparse planar arrays; Three dimensional acoustic imaging; Underwater sonar imaging

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC FIELDS; ACOUSTIC HOLOGRAPHY; ACOUSTIC IMAGING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; OPTIMIZATION; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SENSORS; SONAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNDERWATER IMAGING;

3-D VISION; ARRAY OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; CRITICAL ISSUES; DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES; FIELD OF VIEWS; GEOMETRICAL CHARACTERISTICS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; HIGH-FIDELITY; OF SENSORS; OPTIMIZED SYNTHESES; PLANAR ARRAYS; PRELIMINARY DESIGN; REAL-TIME 3-D ACOUSTIC CAMERA; SIDE LOBE LEVELS; SIMULATION OF UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; SONAR SYSTEMS; SPARSE ARRAYS; SPARSE PLANAR ARRAYS; STOCHASTIC METHODS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL ACOUSTIC IMAGING; UNDERWATER APPLICATIONS; UNDERWATER SONAR IMAGING; WIDEBAND PULSE;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EID: 52649167281     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.922111     Document Type: Article

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