Browsing CMRE Publications by Subject "Modelling and environmental measurements"
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A detailed study of sound reflections from a layered ocean bottom
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1965/05)The effect of layered sediments on sound reflection from the ocean bottom has been investigated theoretically and experimentally. Very detailed, systematic and computer-aided calculations of the reflection coefficient of ... -
A theoretical model for the backscattering strength of a composite roughness sea-surface
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1974/02)The surface-backscattering strength is calculated according to Rayleigh theory for surface excursions much smaller than the sound wavelength. By taking into account of self-shadowing and modulation of grazing angles, the ... -
A wave-theoretic method for estimating the effects of internal tides on acoustic wave transmission
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)The effect of the first mode semidiurnal internal tide on a ducttype sound speed profile was approximated by varying the minimum velocity of the parabolic profile in a sinusoidal fashion with a period of 12.42 hours. The ... -
Acoustic characterization of a shallow water site
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1993/08)Results are presented from an exercise aimed at providing a low frequency active sonar environmental characterization of a specific shallow water site in the Gulf of Mexico. Downward refracting acoustic transmission and ... -
Benefit assessment of glider adaptive sampling in the Ligurian Sea
(CMRE, 2014/01)The benefits of piloting a glider during a 6-day period via an adaptive sampling procedure in a 80 × 60 km2 marine area are assessed under a fully operational framework. The glider trajectory was adapted to reduce the ocean ... -
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 -
Bottom time spread and bistatic scattering by rough basalt
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1993/08)Scattering from oceanic basalt affects low-frequency active sonar systems in at least two important ways: (1) Significant time, angle and frequency spreading reduces target echo levels when systems over-resolve the spread; ... -
Comparison of measured reverberation on the transmission loss data with modelled results on the West Florida continental shelf
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1993/08)Acoustic data from the September, 1992 Area Characterization Test (ACT I) are compared to ADAM (Advanced Development Acoustic Model) output. Conduct of harsh shallow water acoustic exercises, and data interpretation mandates ... -
Deep water mass circulation in the Alboran Basin: Measurements - August to November'83: ALBORAN III
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1988/02)The circulation of the deep water mass in the western Alboran Sea is studied. Interaction between the -
Direct observation of the angle of intromission in marine sediment
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 2001/06)High porosity marine sediments like silty clays have the curious property that the speed of sound through its bulk medium is lower than that of the interstitial pore fluid. When a high porosity sediment is at the water ... -
Distributed underwater glider network with consensus Kalman filter for environmental field estimation
(CMRE, 2019/06)A distributed coordinated dynamic sensor network for optimal environmental field estimation is proposed and tested on simulated and real data. The architecture is used to distribute the estimation of 3D timevarying fields ... -
DUSS97: source localization and environmental inversion using vertical array data
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/08)Results on source localization and environmental inversion using experimental data acquired on a vertical line array are presented. Global inversion methods based on genetic algorithms are utilized to estimated the range ... -
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 ... -
Hydrography of the Iceland-Faeroe Ridge during March 1992: environmental data during NORDIC 92
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1992/12)This memorandum documents an extensive collection of CTD and XBT data made on the Iceland-Faeroe Ridge in March, 1992 by the SACLANTCEN vessel Alliance and the FWG vessel Planet as part of a larger operation called NORDIC ... -
Interface wave studies on the Ligurian shelf usingan OBS array: experimental results and propagation models
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1986/06)Seismic waves travelling in the water/sediment or subbottom sediment/sediment interface have been the subject of considerable interest in recent years. Experiments have confirmed the existence of interface waves in different ... -
Inverse acoustical determination of photosynthetic oxygen productivity of Posidonia seagrass
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 2000/02)As part of geoacoustic inversion experiments (Yellow Shark) in the Giglio basin, off the west coast of Italy, low frequency, broad-band propagation measurements were performed in the winter and spring of 1995 over a dense ... -
Inversion of broad-band multitone acoustic data from the YELLOW SHARK summer experiment
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997/09)Integral geoacoustic properties of the sea bottom were determined from full-field inversion of broad-band, waterborne, acoustic propagation data. The data were obtained during the YELLOW SHARK 94 experiment along a 15-km ... -
Low-frequency acoustic measurements in a shallow-water area with a rough sea surface
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)Surface wave spectra have been measured in the North Sea simultaneously with acoustic investigations using explosive and CW sources. The goal of these experiments was to determine the influence of surface waves to low-frequency ... -
Low-frequency ambient noise in the deep sound channel: the missing component
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1981/07)There is an important component of the undersea ambient noise which has generally been overlooked or ignored. It is the noise which arrives at a sensor, located in a deep sound channel, by way of ducted sound propagation. ... -
Low-frequency reverberation measurements with an activated towed array: Scattering strengths and statistics
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1987/10)Results of reverberation measurements made with a low-frequency activated towed array sonar system in two deep-water locations of the Mediterranean Sea are presented. Measurements took