Development of a Comprehensive Coverage Assessment Tool,

Abstract

BBN has been tasked with developing a comprehensive coverage assessment tool for ocean acoustic monitoring. This tool will facilitate studies into the issues and sensitivities of using acoustic assets in the ocean to support a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. These issues include (1) understanding the sensitivity of signal structure to ocean environment variability as manifested through modal coupling, bottom and surface interaction losses and horizontal refraction and diffraction, (2) understanding the sensitivity of signal structure to source characteristics, and (3) designing detection and localization strategies which exploit the the fullest extent our understanding of the source and propagation characteristics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 14, 1995
Accession Number
ADP204520

Entities

People

  • Greg Duchworth
  • Kevin D. LePage
  • Ted Farrell

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Propagation
  • Contracts
  • Couplings
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Diffraction
  • Environment
  • Monitoring
  • Ocean Environments
  • Oceans
  • Refraction
  • Sensitivity

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Wave Propagation and Nonlinear Chaotic Dynamics.