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Riverine environmental acoustics at an ocean estuary
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)The purpose of these studies was to investigate some of the more important geoacoustrc parameters that might govern the use of high frequency sonar in muddy rivers, where they flow into the sea. Both environmental and ... -
Effect of waveform on synthetic aperture sonar performance
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)This paper describes the main properties of the synthetic aperture sidescan sonar and highlights performances and limitations related to sonar features for mine counter measures. Attention is focused on the theoretical ... -
Interactive tools for the exploration and analysis of multibeam and other seafloor acoustic data
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)The Ocean Mapping Group has developed a full suite of software tools for the real-time or near real-time display, editing, quality control, interpretation and visualization of multibeam sonar data. The combination of ... -
A new ambient noise imaging system for ANI, passive and bistatic active acoustic imaging in shallow water
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)Shallow water active and passive sonars can be usefully complimented by broadband Ambient Noise Imaging (ANI) systems. The first AN1 system was largely analogue, produced good images at 38 m range, but was bulky and permitted ... -
High frequency matched field processing
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)Results are discussed from a high frequency (0 9-5 7 kHz), very shallow water (<10 m) experiment exploring the feasibility of carrying out matched field processing in this frequency and water depth regime The data was ... -
Wavelet analysis of side scan sonar imagery for classification
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)Wavelet-based techniques are presented for compressing side scan sonar images communicated from UUV's through band limited communication channels. Testing with an automatrc classifier on reconstructed images demonstrates ... -
Scattering from an elastic cylinder buried beneath a rough water/sediment interface
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)In this paper a plane-wave decomposition method is used to compute the two-dimensional backscattering from a buried elastic cylinder as a function of frequency. The cases of a pat water/sediment interface and deteministically ... -
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 ... -
Shallow water propagation incorporating both bubble plumes and sea-surface roughness
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)The effect of including a range dependent bubble layer and a suitable sea surface spectrum in modeling shallow water propagation is analyzed. Propagation is simulated through a hrghly accurate model based on a modified PE ... -
Temporal fluctuation of backscattered field due to bioturbatioon in marine sediments
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)Biological activity in marine sediments creates a time-varying, randomly fluctuating medium. A bio-diffusive model is proposed for predicting the temporal and spatial spectrum of sediment density fluctuations. Perturbation ... -
Uniqueness problems in extracting environmental parameters from high-frequency shallow-water reverberation measurements
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)Inversion techniques that extract environmental parameters from measured reverberation often lead to mathematical problems that are not well-posed. Two examples illustrate this possibility. The first hows how a model can ... -
Estimating surface orientation from sonar images
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)A maximum likelihood method for estimating remote surface orientation from multi-static sonar images is presented. It is assumed that the sonar images are corrupted by signal-dependent noise, known as speckle, arising from ... -
Measurement of the bubble population in coastal waters using combination frequencies of MHz order
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)This paper describes the use of a combinatron frequency technique to measure the size distribution of oceanic bubbles. Written between two sea trials, the paper describes how the apparatus cart be adapted to design tests ... -
Analysis and problems of HF acoustic coherent and incoherent simulations in shallow water
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)Shallow water environments create complex scattering condit~ons due to the sea surface and bottom scattering mechanisms. An analysis of the effects of the scattering mechan~smso n sonar images of simple targets in shallow ... -
Very-high (cm scale) resolution multichannel seismology
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Temporal modeling of high frequency (30-100 kHz) acoustic seafloor backscatter: shallow water results
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)A temporal model of high frequency seafloor acoustic backscatter is presented and compared to recorded echoes from terrigenous sediments. Using acoustic properties correlated with mean grain size, the echo shapes and ... -
Shallow water reverberation modeling using an autoregressive range-scattering function approach
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)The primary limitation on system performance for active sonars is reverberation - the reradiation of acoustic energy back to the receiver from inhomogeneities in the physical properties of the medium and its boundaries. A ... -
Vertical porosity and velocity fluctuations in shallow-water surficial sediments and their use in modeling volume scattering
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)Variability in sediment porosity and velocity creates volume scattering which is a parameter used in high-frequency scattering models. High-resolution vertical profiles of sediment porosity and compresstonal wave velocity ... -
Obtaining the ocean index of refraction spectrum from the acoustic amplitude fluctuations
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)The feasibility of using acoustic measurements to determine the properties of a shallow water internal wave field is investigated through numerical simulations. The random intemal wave field is modeled by a generalized ... -
A PC/Linux software toolkit for coastal swath mapping
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)Assembly of a PC/Linux based data acquisirion and processing software toolkit for coastal (shallow water) multibeam and sidescan swath mapping sonar systems has been undertaken by the URI Ocean Mapping Development center ...