Imaging Ocean-basin Reverberation via Inversion

Abstract

A technique for imaging large areas of the ocean floor by inverting reverberation data is presented. Acoustic returns measured on a horizontally towed line array have right-left ambiguity about the array's axis and decreasing cross-range resolution for off-broadside beams and more distant scattering sites.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA637282

Entities

People

  • Nicholas C. Makris

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Properties
  • Geometry
  • Inversion
  • Ocean Basins
  • Ocean Environments
  • Oceans
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Physical Properties
  • Reverberation
  • Scattering
  • Seabed
  • Simulations
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics
  • Towed Arrays
  • Transmission Loss
  • Travel Time

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.