Bi-Static Target Scattering Characteristics for Detection and Classification of Buried and Proud Targets

Abstract

Develop and understand the 3-dimensional target scattering characteristics that will enable optimum search strategies to be developed for multi-static autonomous detection of buried and proud targets. To measure and develop an understanding of the 3-D scattering and structural response from targets resting on the bottom, and/or partially, or completely buried in the bottom. Using these scattering results, NRL will work with MIT and NURC to verify the environmental acoustic approximations that have been used in the new hybrid target-modeling framework developed by MIT. This hybrid modeling technique provides an alternative framework for modeling the complex scattering fields observed from elastic targets resting on, or buried in, the ocean sediment. These results will unlimitedly be used by SWAMSI 08 to develop optimal search strategies for autonomous multi-static detection of buried and proud targets.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2007
Accession Number
ADA569150

Entities

People

  • Bob Brown
  • Richard D Ray
  • Steve Stanic
  • Ted Kennedy

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Classification
  • Detection
  • Electronic Mail
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Domain
  • Grazing Angles
  • Hydrophones
  • Information Operations
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Multistatic Detection
  • Scattering
  • Sediments
  • Structural Response
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.