Predicting Acoustic Backscatter from Bioturbation and Vice Versa: Scale-Dependent Modeling

Abstract

Our long-term goals are to help understand to an extent that allows quantitative prediction important interactions among acoustic propagation, marine organisms, particles (including sediments), solutes and moving fluids. The reason for this goal is to permit solution of interesting forward and inverse problems in the marine environment (although this group of PIs may not always agree on which are the forward and which are the inverse problems). Our present objectives are to attempt to work toward being able to relate rate of change of acoustic backscatter from the seabed with bioturbation rates.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1999
Accession Number
ADA629866

Entities

People

  • Bernard P. Boudreau
  • Darrell R. Jackson
  • Peter A. Jumars

Organizations

  • University of Maine

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Algorithms
  • Aquatic Organisms
  • Automata
  • Backscattering
  • Electronic Mail
  • Information Operations
  • Inverse Problems
  • Low Angles
  • Nova Scotia
  • Oceanography
  • Physics
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Remote Sensing
  • Sediments
  • Universities

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  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Fluid Dynamics.