Method and Apparatus of Classifying Marine Sediments

Abstract

Various schemes are known to classify marine sediments. Common to all is the launching of an acoustic pulse into the water column above the sediments, detecting echoes of the pulse reflected from various sediment layers, and processing the pulses in accordance with some model to infer the acoustic parameters of the various layers, which, if done accurately, effectively identifies the constituents of the sediments, e.g. sand, clay, gravel, etc.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 11, 1997
Accession Number
ADD018763

Entities

People

  • Altan Turgut

Organizations

  • Office of Naval Research

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acoustic Attenuation
  • Acoustic Detection
  • Acoustic Reflection
  • Acoustic Scattering
  • Attenuation
  • Detectors
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Domain
  • Inventions
  • Patents
  • Reflection
  • Scattering
  • Signal Generators
  • Transducers
  • Transfer Functions
  • Waveforms

Readers

  • Coastal Oceanography
  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Geotechnical Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Neural Networks