Browsing by Subject "Shallow water"
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AUV technology for shallow water MCM reconnaissance
(NURC, 2007/10)The ability to perform MCM reconnaissance missions in shallow water is important in both expeditionary MCM and in the protection of ports against maritime improvised explosive devices (MIEDs). For many years AUV systems ... -
Bathymetric imaging with wideband interferometric synthetic aperture sonar
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 2001/11)A new approach to interferometric sonar is presented, based on time delay estimation using shortterm correlation of the seafloor backscatter. It is most suited to signals with large relative bandwidths and long interferometric ... -
Bottom bistatic scattering: experimental results and model comparison for a carbonate sediment
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)Bistatic scattering measurements were carried out under the Coastal Benthic Boundary Layer (CBBL) program. The results presented here are for a carbonate sand-silt-clay, and the data were collected in Februar) 1995 near ... -
Bottom reverberation in shallow water: coherent properties as a function of bandwidth, waveguide characteristics and scatterer distribution
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/10)Scattering physics are often modeled using the Helmholtz equation for computational reasons. Likewise, propagation loss to and from scattering regions are often treated in a like manner. The usual approach for generating ... -
Bottom scattering measurements in shallow water
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1999/08)Sonar performance predictions of reverberation in shallow water rely upon good estimates of the bottom scattering strength. However, little is understood about bottom scattering in shallow water in -
Broad-band geoacoustic inversion in shallow water from waveguide response measurements on a single hydrophone: theory and YELLOW SHARK experimental results
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1999/05)Executive summary: Performance models such as the Allied Environmental Support System (AESS) require environmental input parameters such as the geoacoustic properties of the battlespace. The models ingest the input parameters ... -
Broadband signal simulation in shallow water
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 2002/12)Today's minimum requirements for ocean acoustic models are to be able to simulate broadband signal transmissions in 2D varying environments with an acceptable computational effort. Standard -
Channel sensitive processor: real data processing
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/02)The CSP is applied to data collected during the DUSS97 sea trial. A one-way geometry is used and the transmitted signal propagation time is known a priori. As predicted by analytical and simulation studies, the CSP detector ... -
Channel-adapted source for shallow water
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1993/08)In shallow water areas the utilization of active sonar is complicated by the fact that in these environments the performance of active systems is degraded by source signal interaction with channel boundaries. These boundary ... -
Correlation of backscatter with bottom topography
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1993/08)Practical data from low frequency sonar operations in shallow water has been analysed to demonstrate that a high degree of correlation exists between the received signal due to bottom hackscattering and the hottom gradient ... -
Critical angle and seabed scattering issues for active-sonar performance predictions in shallow water
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)Active sonar performance predictions (0.75 to 3 kHz) are examined in summer shallow-water environments to quantify the impact of variable seabed and watermass properties on detection. Scattering is computed with an ... -
Deconvolution by homomorphic and Wiener filtering
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1988/09)This study is concerned with deconvolution methods applied to underwater propagation in shallow -
Deployable underwater surveillance systems: analysis of experimental results: part III
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1999/04)Deployable Underwater Surveillance Systems (DUSS) are a new active sonar concept based on a distributed network of small multistatic transmitter / receiver nodes. This study analyzes data acquired during the period 29 June ... -
Determination of velocity profile and sea bed characteristics from high frequency pulse propagation in a shallow water Mediterranean environment
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)Time-domain features of shallow water Mediterranean and Yellow Sea data are simulated for frequency band widths of 0.8 kHz with a centralfrequency of 3.2 kHz. Contour plots of pulse arrivals in time and depth are analyzed ... -
Effects of sea bed structure on high frequency acoustic reverberation in shallow water
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)Although undoubtedly sea bed structures, patterns, and composition affect the reverberation of high-frequency acoustic energy, the extent of their influence is not well known. The effects of varying selected bedform ... -
Environmental impact on mobile sonar shallow water operations
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1993/08)Shallow Water operations provide unique challenges for mobile sonars. In many cases propagation conditions can be optimized - our studies have shown that sound channeling can occur in approximately 75% of the strategic ... -
Evaluation of experimental techniques for determining the plane wave reflection coefficient at the sea floor
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1986/06)One of the most commonly used techniques for determinati on of the geoacoustical properties of the sea bed is the measurement of plane wave reflection coefficients at the ocean bottom. An incident field is pr oduced by ... -
Experimental results of 300 kHz shallow water synthetic aperture sonar
(NURC, 2007/11)The design of a shallow water synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) requires an understanding of key system and environmental issues. The main factors which limit SAS performance are micronavigation accuracy, where micronavigation ... -
Generic Oceanographic Array Technologies (GOATS)'98: bi-static seabed scattering measurements using autonomous underwater vehicles
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/10)The GOATS'98 experiment was performed May 5-29, 1998 in shallow water off Marciana Marina, on the island of Elba, Italy. The experiment addressed some of the fundamental issues associated with using the new Autonomous Ocean ... -
Geoacoustic inversion using multipath pulse shape
(NURC, 2008/09)Experimental data, measured in a shallow water region of the Mediterranean Sea, are used to show that the variation of received intensity with time is well described by existing expressions [Harrison and Nielsen, J. Acoust. ...