Internal Wave Mooring

Abstract

The overall goal of this PRIMER program is to assess the feasibility of the operation of a synthetic aperture sonar on the continental shelf. To evaluate the performance of this sonar system, knowledge of the fluctuations of oceanic sound speed, primarily due to internal waves, is needed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA627846

Entities

People

  • Murray Levine
  • Timothy Boyd

Organizations

  • Oregon State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Continental Shelves
  • Continental Slopes
  • Deep Oceans
  • Electrical Solitons
  • Frequency
  • Information Operations
  • Internal Waves
  • Mixing
  • Observation
  • Oceans
  • Potential Energy
  • Sonar
  • Synthetic Aperture Sonar
  • Turbulent Mixing
  • Universities
  • Wave Packets
  • Waves

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.