Technical Reports: Recent submissions
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Oceanographic conditions in the Antalya Basin in water
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/07)From an oceanographic survey of the Antalya Basin in February 1997 the following horizontal circulation pattern was found: The Asia Minor Current (AMC) was detached from the Turkish coast flowing to the southwest between ... -
Yellow Shark Spring '95: inversion results from sparse broadband acoustic measurements over a highly range dependent soft clay layer
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/06)In May 1995, SACLANTCEN performed broad-band (200-800 Hz) acoustic measurements in the Giglio basin off the coast of Italy as part of the Yellow Shark inversion experiments. In this paper, inversion of sparse, broad-band ... -
Numerical simulation of the effects of bathymetry on underwater sound propagation using three-dimensional parabolic models
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/03)Two different three-dimensional parabolic equation (PE) methods are -
Detection of buried objects in the seabed: a simple model study
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/10)The problem of detecting an object buried in the seabed is studied by means of a simple model. In this model, the object is a rigid sphere buried in a bottom modelled as a fluid half space. The scattered field is determined ... -
Remote sensing of topographically-induced upwelling in the southern coastal region of Sicily
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/09)Upwelling signatures caused by variations in bottom topography along the southeastern Sicilian coast are identified, using spaceborne remote sensing Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) imagery, ERS-1 and ... -
Detection of buried objects at low grazing angles: preliminary experimental results
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/06)This report considers the acoustic detection of objects buried in the seabed, and especially the possibility of using subcritical insonification geometries in order to increase coverage rate. -
Physics of 3-D scattering from rippled seabeds and buried targets in shallow water
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/05)The new OASES-3D code developed at MIT is used to investigate the spatial and temporal characteristics of reverberation from rippled seabeds insonified by narrow beam sonars such as the TOPAS parametric source. It is shown ... -
Experimental demonstration of the focused acoustic field in the ocean
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/10)An experiment conducted in the Mediterranean Sea in April1996 demonstrated that a time reversal mirror (or phase conjugate array) can be implemented to spatially and temporally refocus an incident acoustic field back to ... -
Mechanisms for subcritical penetration into a sandy bottom: experimental and modelling results
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/05)This paper presents the results of a recent study whose overall objectives are to determine the mechanism(s) contributing to subcritical acoustic penetration into ocean sediments, and to quantify the results for use in ... -
Oceanographic measurements of the West Black Sea: November 26 to December 14, 1995
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/06)Mediterranean water inflow into the Black Sea is investigated using acoustic and oceanographic data obtained in the Black Sea exit region. Temporal and spatial variability in the flow and their relation to atmospheric and ... -
Penetration of acoustic waves into sandy seafloors at low grazing angles: the Helmholtz-Kirchhoff approach
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/08)The Helmholtz-Kirchhoff integral is applied to model the penetration of sound waves into sandy seafloors at grazing angles above and below the critical angle. Although the conditions for the validity -
Probability of false alarm estimation in oversampled active sonar systems
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/08)The probability of false alarm (Pfa)in active sonar systems is an -
Modelling acousto-elastic waveguide/object scattering with the Rayleigh hypothesis
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/06)In this memorandum the plane wave scattering matrices for a range-dependent seabed and upper free surface are computed using the -
Modelling of scattering by partially buried elastic cylinders
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/02)The work of a previous memorandum on the modelling of scattering by a partially buried cylinder is extended to allow the cylinder to have full elasticity (and not just be a fluid structure as in the previous work). The ... -
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 ... -
The application of parametric side scan sonar to the detection of proud and buried targets
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/01)This paper describes an experiment designed to evaluate the feasibility of using the TOPAS parametric transmitter mounted in side scan mode, for the detection of buried targets. The concept was tested with proud targets ... -
Broadband geo-acoustic inversion from sparse data using genetic algorithms: results from the 1997 Geo-Acoustic Inversion Workshop
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/03)Matched field acoustic inversion techniques were investigated -
Development of a SACLANTCEN MCM sonar performance model
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1996/11)The report describes the Mine Countermeasures Sonar Performance -
Channel sensitive processor: sensitivity and optimization study
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997/10)The detection performance of the Channel-Sensitive Processor (CSP) has been tested in dense multipath conditions. It was demonstrated that, for a known propagation channel, the CSP outperforms the conventional matched ... -
An approach to robust map generation from multibeam bathymetric data
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997/10)During the last twenty years, many multibeam bathymetric sonars have been produced. The instrumentation is usually accompanied by a system able to produce a seafloor map from the sonar data. There are also several public ...