Active Sonar Waveform

Abstract

JASON was tasked by the ONR to study the recent spate of whale-beaching events which have been linked to sonar exercises. The initial goal of the study was to use the current level of understanding of these events to recommend modifications of the sonar waveform as a mitigation strategy. As we learned about the subject, however, it became clear to us that this is at present an impossible task; we just do not know enough about the damage mechanism and the chain of causation for an engineering solution to the problem.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA427231

Entities

People

  • C. Callan
  • Hert Levine
  • L. Bildsten
  • Mark Brenner
  • S. Flatte

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Fields
  • Acoustic Measurement
  • Acoustic Waves
  • Acoustics
  • Active Sonar
  • Animals
  • Canary Islands
  • Differential Equations
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Frequency
  • Marine Mammals
  • Military Research
  • Odontocetes
  • Sonar
  • Waveforms
  • Waves

Readers

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Marine Mammal Biology