Acoustic backscattering from a sand and a sand/mud environment: Experiments and data/model comparisons

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 388-398

  Williams, Kevin L ^a   Jackson, Darrell R ^a   Tang, Dajun ^a   Briggs, Kevin B ^b   Thorsos, Eric I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic propagation; Acoustic scattering; Underwater acoustics

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC BACKSCATTERING; ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION; ACOUSTIC SCATTERING; ENVIRONMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; GRAZING ANGLES; LESSONS LEARNED; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SCATTERING MECHANISMS; SEDIMENT INTERFACE; SURFACE LAYERS; TROPICAL STORMS; VOLUME SCATTERING; WEATHER EVENTS;

ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; BACKSCATTERING; EXPERIMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; WEATHER INFORMATION SERVICES;

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 73049111503     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2009.2018335     Document Type: Article

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