Coherence-based underwater target detection from multiple disparate sonar platforms

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-51

  Tucker, J Derek ^a   Azimi Sadjadi, Mahmood R ^b  

^a NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary hypothesis testing; disparate sensor platforms; two channel coherence analysis; underwater target detection

Indexed keywords

ALARM SYSTEMS; ECHO SUPPRESSION; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; UNDERWATER IMAGING;

BINARY HYPOTHESIS TESTING; DISTRIBUTED DETECTION SYSTEM; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SENSOR PLATFORM; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR (SAS); TWO CHANNEL; UNDERWATER TARGET DETECTION;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EID: 79952990882     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2010.2094230     Document Type: Article

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