Development of a 600 Meter Chirp Sonar

Abstract

This letter is the final technical report for Grant No. N00014-90-J- 4134 which expired 27 September 1991. This grant was entitled the Development of a 600 Meter Chirp Sonar. The chirp sonar is a digital FM reflection profiler that generates high signal to noise, quantitative data useful for imaging the seabed and estimating sediment properties. The objective of this project is to develop a chirp sonar for the Naval Oceanographic Office which will conduct subbottom surveys providing acoustic reflection data in conjunction with coring surveys that provide physical property data. The data sets will be used to develop and verify sediment classification models. After the models are developed, they can be used to generate world wide maps of sediment properties from chirp sonar data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 26, 1992
Accession Number
ADA248830

Entities

Organizations

  • Florida Atlantic University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Reflection
  • Acoustic Windows
  • Calibration
  • Chirp Sonar
  • Data Sets
  • Dynamic Range
  • Engineering
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Response
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Physical Properties
  • Reflection
  • Sediments
  • Sonar
  • Transfer Functions

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.