Studies on Sonar Clutter and Reverberation

Abstract

The long-term goals of this effort are to: Assess capability of directional arrays for inversion and reverberation studies Characterize acoustic clutter in a manner that will lead to its mitigation Improve geo-acoustic parameter extraction from reverberation data Construct suitable high fidelity reverberation and scattering models for model/data comparison and inversion Operate and maintain the Five Octave Research Array (FORA) for ONR-OA

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2012
Accession Number
ADA575015

Entities

People

  • John R. Preston

Organizations

  • Pennsylvania State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Active Sonar
  • Algorithms
  • Arrays
  • Boundaries
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Processing
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • Inversion
  • Measurement
  • Reverberation
  • Ridges
  • Scattering
  • Seabed
  • Shallow Water
  • Towed Arrays

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.