Acoustic ray-trace equations for seafloor geodesy

Marine Geodesy

Volumn 33, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 164-186

  Chadwell, C David ^a   Sweeney, Aaron D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic ranging; Deformation; Ellipsoid; GPS acoustics; Plate motion

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ACOUSTICS; DEFORMATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEODESY; GEOMETRY; GPS; PLATE MOTION; SEAFLOOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND PROPAGATION; TRAVEL TIME; ACOUSTIC METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELLIPSE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAY TRACING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO;

EID: 77954304968     PISSN: 01490419     EISSN: 1521060X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490419.2010.492283     Document Type: Article

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