Estimation of K-distribution shape parameter from sonar data: Sample size limitations

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-50

  Prior, Mark K ^a,b  

^a NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b The Provisional Technical Secretariat   (Austria)

Author keywords

Acoustic scattering; Underwater acoustic measurements; Underwater acoustics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SCATTERING; BACK-SCATTERED; BEST FITS; DATA DISTRIBUTIONS; DATA SAMPLES; DESCRIPTORS; DISTRIBUTED DATUM; INTEGER VALUES; K DISTRIBUTIONS; KOLMOGOROV-SMIRNOV TESTS; LOWER BOUNDS; MATCHED FILTERS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; RANDOM DATUM; RAYLEIGH; SAMPLE SIZES; SCALE PARAMETERS; SCATTERER SIZES; SCATTERING PROPERTIES; SEA FLOORS; SHAPE PARAMETERS; SONAR DATUM; SONAR SIGNALS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS;

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; CONTROL THEORY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SONAR; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; UNDERWATER AUDITION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 67349174194     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2008.2008040     Document Type: Article

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