Browsing Reprints by Subject "Shallow water"
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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 ... -
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. ... -
High frequency acoustic propagation in coastal waters
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)High Frequency Acoustic Propagation experiments were performed with bottom-mounted sources and receivers at different coastal sites. A measurement technique has been developed and propagation loss data have been taken using ... -
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 ... -
Highlights of bottom topography inferred from received depression and bearing angles
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)Statistical properties of the acoustic reflection from the ocean floor have been studied for a var i.ety of bottom types including deep, smooth, flat topography thorough, jagged bottom in shallower (~l km) depths. Explosive ... -
Intensity-range relations for shallow-water sound propagation
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1976/04)Convincing experimental evidence is presented to show that various "decay laws" for the decrease of sound intensity with increasing range can give high-quality representation for shallow water data. However, while a sequence ... -
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 ... -
Measurement and interpretation of angular spreading from multiple boundary interactions in a shallow water channel
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)The problem of angular spreading of sound that has undergone multiple boundary scattering (both sea surface and sea bed) in a shallow water channel is discussed. Measurements made of the horizontal spatial coherence along ... -
Measurements and modelling of high-frequency acoustic scattering by a rough seafloor and sea surface
(NURC, 2009/12)Acoustic scattering by a rough, possibly dynamic interface is experimentally studied by insonifying the seabed and the sea surface at high frequency at various incidentangles. A directional source working at 300 kHz was ... -
Measurements of normal-mode amplitude functions in a nearly-stratified medium
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)In normal-mode treatments of acoustic propagation in nearly-stratified media, calculations are frequently based on the perfectly-stratified medium model, in which symmetry permits separation of the wave equationo In these ... -
Modeling range-dependent, high-frequency, shallow-water torpedo reverberation data
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)The high-frequency, forward bottom losses predicted by a lossy Rayleigh and a Biot poroelastic sediment model are substantially different. These differences will accumulate and become measurable in multiple bottom bounce ... -
Multipath field representation for seabed parameter extraction using backscatter data from shadow zones
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)Inversion strategies for bottom parameter estimation in shallow water impose stringent requirements on accuracy and speed of acoustic models. We highlight the importance of second order effects as first order determinants ... -
Multipath pulse shape in a refracting environment
(NURC, 2007/11)Multiple boundary interactions in shallow water propagation introduce a more or less Gaussian angle distribution at a distant receiver. When all paths are added the result is 'mode-stripping', i.e. the steep rays are ... -
Multipath pulse shapes in shallow water: theory and simulation
(NURC, 2007/04)In shallow water propagation the steeper ray angles are weakened most by boundary losses. Regarding the sound intensity as a continuous function of angle it can be converted into a function of travel time to reveal the ... -
Multistatic bottom reverberation in shallow water
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)A wavenumber integration approach to modeling of the full multistatic reverberant field produced by small-scale bottom roughness in stratified shallow water waveguides has been developed. A perturbation approach to rough ...