Statistics of echoes from a directional sonar beam insonifying finite numbers of single scatterers and patches of scatterers

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 267-277

  Chu, Dezhang ^a   Stanton, Timothy K ^b  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Beampattern; Echo statistics; Scattering; Sonar

Indexed keywords

BEAMPATTERN; ECHO STATISTICS; FINITE NUMBER; INSONIFYING; NARROW BEAMS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; RAYLEIGH; RAYLEIGH DISTRIBUTIONS; SEA FLOOR; SEA SURFACES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SONAR; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

SCATTERING;

EID: 77952951946     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2009.2037988     Document Type: Article

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