Ranging in an underwater medium with multiple isogradient sound speed profile layers

Sensors

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2996-3017

  Ramezani, Hamid ^a   Leus, Geert ^a  

^a Department of Microelectronics   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Localization; Ranging; Ray tracing; Sound speed profile; Underwater acoustic sensor networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858993987     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120302996     Document Type: Article

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