Measurements and Analysis of Reverberation, Target Echo, and Clutter: FY10 Annual Report for ONR

Abstract

The long-term goal of this work is to better understand and model reverberation and clutter in shallow water environments, and to develop techniques for Rapid Environmental Assessment (REA) and environmentally adaptive sonar. OBJECTIVES The current project is a joint collaboration between Defence Research & Development Canada - Atlantic (DRDC Atlantic) and the Applied Research Laboratory of The Pennsylvania State University (ARL/PSU) to analyze and model reverberation, target echo, and clutter data in shallow water. It allows the Principal Investigator (PI) to spend approximately three months each year at ARL/PSU. The collaboration leverages programs in Canada, US, and joint research projects with the NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC). The primary effort is analysis and interpretation of data, together with development and validation of improved modeling algorithms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2010
Accession Number
ADA542078

Entities

People

  • Dale D. Ellis

Organizations

  • Defence Research and Development Canada

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acoustics
  • Active Sonar
  • Echoes
  • Environmental Assessment
  • Group Velocity
  • Measurement
  • Operating Systems
  • Reverberation
  • Scattering
  • Shallow Water
  • Sonar
  • Target Echoes
  • Test Beds
  • Three Dimensional
  • Towed Arrays
  • Travel Time

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.