A long-term seafloor experiment using an acoustic ranging system: Precise horizontal distance measurements for detection of seafloor crustal deformation

Ocean Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue , 2012, Pages 28-33

  Osada, Yukihito ^a   Kido, Motoyuki ^a   Fujimoto, Hiromi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic ranging; Crustal deformation; Seafloor geodesy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MEASUREMENTS; ACOUSTIC RANGING; ACOUSTIC TRANSPONDERS; AVERAGE VALUES; CRUSTAL DEFORMATIONS; LONG TERM STABILITY; SEA FLOOR; SEAFLOOR ACOUSTICS; SEAFLOOR GEODESY; SOUND SPEED; STANDARD DEVIATION;

ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTS; RANGE FINDING; ULTRASONIC VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

DEFORMATION;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEODESY; PRECISION; SEAFLOOR;

HONSHU; JAPAN; KINKI; KUMANO; MIE;

EID: 84862849423     PISSN: 00298018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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