Statistical Analysis of Sediment Cores

Abstract

THE GOAL OF THIS GRANT WAS TO DETERMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VARIOUS CORRELATION LENGTHS FOR POROSITY AND DENSITY VARIATIONS IN SEDIMENT CORES AS DERIVED FROM ONE DIMENSIONAL AND THREE DIMENSIONAL MODELS. THIS GOAL WAS MET BY FORMULATING BOTH DIRECT ONE DIMENSIONAL AND INDIRECT ONE AND THREE DIMENSIONAL MODELS FOR SAMPLED MEASUREMENTS OF THESE VARIABLES AND BY DETERMINING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE CORRELATION LENGTHS DEFINED FOR EACH THEORETICAL MODEL. THE END RESULT OF THIS EFFORT WAS A METHODOLOGY FOR TRANSFORMING THE CORRELATION LENGTH FOR A ONE DIMENSIONAL DISCRETE PARAMETER MODEL INTO LENGTHS APPROPRIATE FOR ONE AND THREE DIMENSIONAL CONTINUOUS PARAMETER MODELS, THUS ALLOWING A MORE ACCURATE DETERMINATION OF A PARAMETER NEEDED BY ACOUSTIC SCATTERING MODELS.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 02, 2003
Accession Number
ADA410673

Entities

People

  • Darnell R. Jackson
  • Donald B. Percival
  • Kevin B. Briggs

Organizations

  • University of Washington

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Scattering
  • Data Science
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Information Operations
  • Information Science
  • Mathematics
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Physical Properties
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Porosity
  • Scattering
  • Sediments
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Three Dimensional

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