Browsing Reprints by Subject "Acoustic models"
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Relative contribution of surface roughness and bottom attenuation to propagation loss in shallow water
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)A simulation study has been performed to investigate the relative importance of the contributions of surface roughness and bottom attenuation to propagation loss under differing environmental conditionso The NRL normal ... -
Review of numerical models in underwater acoustics including recently developed fast-field program
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1984/12)Two papers given by SACLANTCEN personnel at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Hybrid Formulation of Wave Propagation and Scattering at Castel Gandolfo, Rome, Italy on 30 August to 3 September 1983 are published as a ... -
Role of propagation in ambient noise
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1982/06)To be useful for modern ASW systems design and analyses, descriptions of ambient noise fields must go beyond average omnidirectional spectra and include horizontal and vertical patterns, fluctuations with time, dependencies ... -
Sedimentological acoustics: an attempt to reduce the gap between acoustical modeling and sedimentoloogical survey
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)A major task in shallow water acoustics is to provide pertinent geoacoustical data. The purpose of the work is to evaluate the state of the art in this field, connecting in situ sedimentological measurement and acoustical ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Shallow-water coherence of broadband signals
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)The frequency-dependent spatial and temporal variabilities of sound propagation in coastal regions is investigated by ezperiment and numerical simulations. Experimental observations show that temporal coherence of the ... -
Shear properties of ocean sediments determined from numerical modelling of Scholte wave data
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1986/06)Recently it has become apparent that shear properties of ocean sediments are most easily determined from measured propagation characteristics of seismic interface waves. We use a newly developed numeri ca l model of wave ... -
Some comments on ray theory with examples from current NUC ray trace models
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1971/12)Three topics were covered in this paper: 1. Ray Sweep-out Method - a technique for calculating sound intensities at a large number of receiver points in range and depth . 2. Bi-static Reverberation Model - a technique based ... -
Sound propagation in shallow water: a detailed description of the acoustic field close to surface and bottom
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1982/02)Experimental data are compared with normal-mode predictions for an isovelocity shallow-water propagation channel overlying a complicated layered bottom. Measurements were made close to both the sea surface and the sea floor ... -
Subcritical penetration of narrow Gaussian beams into sediments
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1988/03)Complete wave-theory solutions have been obtained numerically for both the reflected and the transmitted fields associated with a narrow Gaussian beam incident on a water-sediment interface near the critical grazing angle. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Texture analysis of sidescan sonar imagery using statistical scattering models
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)It is shown that the generalised K-distribution provides a good fir to the amplrtude statisttcs of sonar imagery from several different types of seabed sediment. A number of possible explanations for the Ricean nature of ... -
The continuous gradient ray tracing system (CONGRATS)
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1971/12)CONGRATS, an acronym for the Continuous Gradient Ray Tracing System, is an integrated collection of ray tracing programs designed to model acoustic propagation and reverberation. The fundamental programs of the series, ... -
Two dimensional internal-wave spectra
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1975/10)Although spatial fluctuations of the sound speed in the ocean have a variety of causes, internal waves are thought to produce most of the fluctuations over horizontal scales ranging from several tens of metres to several ... -
Underwater acoustics - modelling: keynote address
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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 ... -
Wavefront curvature ranging as a passive synthetic aperture problem
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)A new method of wavefront curvature passive ranging is introduced that is based on a model-based approach. The signal and measurement systems are placed into state-space form, thereby allowing the unknown parameters of the ...