Effects of sea-surface conditions on passive fathometry and bottom characterization

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2234-2241

  Means, Steven L ^a   Siderius, Martin ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; AVERAGING TIME; CORRELATION PROPERTIES; CROSS CORRELATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; HYDROPHONE ARRAYS; SEA-SURFACE CONDITIONS; SHALLOW WATERS; SURFACE NOISE; WATER DEPTH; WAVE CONDITIONS; WAVE HEIGHTS; WIND CONDITIONS; WIND SPEED;

ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SPEED; STREAM FLOW; VIDEO CAMERAS; WIND EFFECTS;

HURRICANE EFFECTS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA SURFACE WATERS; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VIDEORECORDING; WIND;

ACOUSTICS; CALIBRATION; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANOGRAPHY; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WIND;

EID: 70449435089     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3216915     Document Type: Article

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