Subseafloor geoacoustic characterization in the kilohertz regime with a broadband source and a 4-element receiver array

OCEANS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hermand, Jean Pierre ^a   Le Gac, Jean Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; BAYESIAN INVERSION; BROADBAND SOURCES; CENTER FREQUENCY; DRIFTING VERTICAL ARRAY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; GEOACOUSTICS; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS; GROUND TRUTH; HIGH-SPEED; HIGHER FREQUENCIES; MATCHED FILTERS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MODEL-BASED; PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; RANGE-INDEPENDENT; RAPID ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS; RECEIVER ARRAY; SHALLOW WATER ENVIRONMENT; SUB-AREAS; SUB-SEAFLOOR;

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLES; DATA PROCESSING; GEOPHYSICS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SUBMERSIBLES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNDERWATER EQUIPMENT; WATER CRAFT;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EID: 70350096553     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2008.5152070     Document Type: Conference Paper

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