Springer + Praxis Publishing, 2010. — 707 p. — ISBN: 3540876618. Sonar performance modeling (SPM) is concerned with the prediction of quantitative measures of sonar performance, such as probability of detection. It is a multi-disciplinary subject, requiring knowledge and expertise in the disparate fields of underwater acoustics, acoustical oceanography, sonar signal processing...
Plenum Press, 1986. — 897 p. Seafloor investigation has long been a feature of not only seismology but also of acoustics. Indeed it was acoustics that produced depth sounders, giving us the first capability of producing both global and local maps of the seafloor. Subsequently, better instrumentation and techniques led to a clearer, more quantitative picture of the seabed...
Springer, 1986. — 210 p. This volume contains seven research papers on topics in stochastic processes, with specific applications to problems in underwater acoustics. Extracts from these papers were presented in two invited sessions at the 1985 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Brighton. England, June 24-28. 1985. Thanks are extended to Dr. E.C. Posner and the...
NATO Scientific Affairs Division. Advanced study institutes series: Series C, Mathematical and Physical Sciences; vol. 66 Springer, D. Reidel Publishing, 1981, 736 p., ISBN: 9400984499 9789400984493 9789400984479 These Proceedings should form an advanced textbook in the field of underwater Acoustics and Signal Processing. Audience - the students, are scientists who already have...
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1994. — 510 p. The European Conferences on Underwater Acoustics are held every second year and are designed to promote RTD and exchange results and ideas on both the European and international levels. They are normally combined with a number of workshops. The purpose of this report, which is printed in...
Elsevier, 2017. — 970 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-811240-3. This book meets the needs of scientists and engineers working in underwater acoustics and graduate students solving problems in, and preparing theses on, topics in underwater acoustics. The book is structured to provide the basis for rapidly assimilating the essential underwater acoustic knowledge base for practical...
InTech, 2012, 136 p., ISBN: 9535104414 9789535104414 This book consists of seven chapters, written by international authorities, discussing various aspects of Under water Acoustic Communication System. A Novel Bio-Inspired Acoustic Ranging Approach för a Betfcer Resolution Achievement Array Processing: Underwater Acoustic Source Localization Local ization of Buried Objects in...
Springer, 1991. — 253 p. One of the most challenging problem in electrical engineering is the detection and estimation of targets in underwater acoustics. Solutions to this problem use tools given by signal processing techniques and, in particular, by the so-called high-resolution methods. Their fundamental philosophy is to overcome the limitations of the classical Fourier...
3ed. , Springer, AIP Press, 2003, p. 298 This is the third edition of our book Fundamentals of Ocean Acoustics, revised and supplemented, including much new material responding to the progress in the theory of sound propagation and scattering in the ocean over the last 10 years. New topics are devoted mainly to such questions as the intrathermocline lenses and their effect on...
2nd Edition. — Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. — (Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing) — ISBN: 3319390422 This improved and updated second edition covers the theory, development, and design of electro-acoustic transducers for underwater applications. This highly regarded text discusses the basics of piezoelectric and magnetostrictive transducers that...
Springer, 2006, 332 p., ISBN: 1402043724 1402043864 9781402043727 9781402043864 This volume, includes a range of diverse and innovative applications, as well as comparisons in the field among competing approaches and review papers. This book is primarily intended for physicists and engineers working in underwater acoustics and oceanic engineering. It will also be of interest to...
Springer, 2000. — 295 p. In recent years, research on acoustic remote sensing of the ocean has evolved considerably, especially in studying complex physical and biological processes in shallow water environments. To review the state of the art, an international workshop was held at Carvoeiro, Portugal, in March 1999, bringing together leading international researchers in the...
Kluwer, 1989. — 641 p. This book contains the papers that were accepted for presentation at the 1988 NATO Advanced Study Institute on Underwater Acoustic Data Processing, held at the Royal Military College of Canada from 18 to 29 July, 1988. Approximately 110 participants from various NATO countries were in attendance during this two week period. Their research interests range...
Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019 - 115 p. - ISBN: 978-981-13-3744-4 This book presents the topic of underwater real-time 3-D acoustical imaging covering the theory, algorithms and system design. It summarizes recent advances in wideband and ultra-wideband underwater real-time 3-D acoustical imaging, which will be very useful for developing next-generation systems. Through...
Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019. — 115 p. — ISBN: 978-981-13-3744-4. This book presents the topic of underwater real-time 3-D acoustical imaging covering the theory, algorithms and system design. It summarizes recent advances in wideband and ultra-wideband underwater real-time 3-D acoustical imaging, which will be very useful for developing next-generation systems. Through...
Macmillan, 1990. — 199 p. Addresses the theory and practice of sound transmission in the sea and in its underlying sediment layers and rock strata. Presents the sonar equations and considers modeling of sonar propagation. Also describes transducer design, transducer arrays and applications.
John Wiley & Sons, 2022. — 536 p. — ISBN: 9781119851059. An Introduction to Sonar Transducer Design, renowned sensor engineer Dr. John C. Cochran delivers an instructive and comprehensive exploration of the foundations of sonar transducer design perfect for beginning and experienced professional transducer designers. The book offers a detailed mathematical review of the...
Pelagic Publishing, 2023. — 410 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78427-414-6. Why are we as humans so attracted to water and to colorful reefs? In what ways do fundamental mathematical rules manifest in coral reefs? For answers to these questions and many more, take a dive into Reflections Underwater. Coral reefs are one of the world's great natural wonders: endlessly surprising and...
Kluwer, 2004. — 290 p. The aim of the present book is to present theoretical nonlinear aco- tics with equal stress on physical and mathematical foundations. We have attempted explicit and detailed accounting for the physical p- nomena treated in the book, as well as their modeling, and the f- mulation and solution of the mathematical models. The nonlinear acoustic phenomena...
4th Edition. — CRC Press, Taylor & Francis. — 2013. — 521 p. — ISBN: 1466564938, 9781466564930, 9781466564947. This is a comprehensive review of models used in underwater acoustics. It is fully up to date, but also provides information about older models. This edition continues to provide the most authoritative overview of currently available propagation, noise, reverberation,...
E & FN Spon, 1996. - 303 p. ISBN: 0203475658 0203783891 0419201904 9780419201908 Second Edition The subject of underwater acoustic modeling deals with the translation of our physical understanding of sound in the sea into mathematical formulas solvable by computers. This book divides the subject of underwater acoustic modeling into three fundamental aspects: the physical...
Spon Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2003. - 447 p. ISBN: 0203419103 0419262202 9780419262206Third Edition This book examines the translation of our physical understanding of sound into mathematical models that can simulate acoustic propagation, noise and reverberation in the sea. The book provides useful guidance to systems engineers and operations analysts interested in...
Wiley, Chichester, 2010, 353 p., ISBN: 0470688750 Offering complete and comprehensive coverage of modern sonar spectrum system analysis, Underwater Acoustics: Analysis, Design and Performance of Sonar provides a state-of-the-art introduction to the subject and has been carefully structured to offer a much-needed update to the classic text by Urick. Expanded to included...
Springer Science+Business Media, 2007, 616 p., ISBN: 0387369457 0387341544 9780387341545 Monograph Series in Underwater Acoustics This book provides a critical evaluation of the data and models pertaining to high-frequency acoustic interaction with the seafloor, which will be of interest to researchers in underwater acoustics and to developers of sonars. Models and data are...
NURC. La Spezia, Italy. 2008. — 84 p. This handbook is a quick guide to the use of sonars for both military and civilian purposes. The effect of the ocean environment on acoustic propagation is illustrated, and practical results for each term in the sonar equation related to the environment (propagation, noise, reverberation), to the acoustic source and the target, and to array...
2nd edition. — Springer, 2011. — XVIII, 794. — ISBN: 978-1-4419-8678-8. Since the mid-1970s, the computer has played an increasingly pivotal role in the field of ocean acoustics. Faster and less expensive than actual ocean experiments, and capable of accommodating the full complexity of the acoustic problem, numerical models are now standard research tools in ocean...
Springer, 2012. — 548 p. Shallow water acoustics (SWA), the study of how low and medium frequency sound propagates and scatters on the continental shelves of the worlds oceans, has both technical interest and a large number of practical applications. Technically, shallow water poses an interesting medium for the study of acoustic scattering, inverse theory, and propagation...
Springer, 1977. — 294 p. A "Workshop on Wave Propagation and Underwater Acoustics" was held from November 19 to November 21, 1974 in Mystic, Connecticut. It was sponsored by the Acoustics Branch of the Office of Naval Research under the aegis of Hugo Bezdek. The workshop was conceived at the New London Laboratory of the Naval Underwater Systems Center and organized by the...
Springer, 1993. — 749 p. To place this book in perspective it is useful for the reader to be aware of the recent history of the topic of underwater sound generation at the ocean surface by natural mechanisms. A meeting in Lerici, Italy in 1987 was convened within the NATO Advanced Research Workshop series, to bring together underwater acousticians and ocean hydrodynamicists to...
Nizhny Novgorod: IAP RAS, 1998. — 196 p. Recent accomplishments in ocean acoustic tomography were presented in this book. In particular, the adiabatic approach in tomographic reconstruction and the methods of diffraction and emission tomography have been addressed in some detail. In the final chapter, the major ideas will be summarized to indicate concisely the modern status of...
Plenum Press, 1980. — 699 p. This book contains the complete proceedings of a conference held at the NATO SACLANT ASW Research Centre, La Spezia, Italy on 9-12 June, 1980. The forty-six papers presented at this conference represent the work of seventy scientists working at universities, government laboratories, and industrial laboratories in seven different countries. We would...
Springer, 1980. — 324 p. Proceedings of the First International Conference, Göttingen, Fed. Rep. of Germany, July 9–11, 1979. As expected the conference brought together a wide variety of topics and characters and a vivid exchange of ideas. At least five sections were found necessary to group the papers: Cavitation, Sound Waves and Bubbles, Bubble Spectrometry, Particle...
Zhejiang University Press, Hangzhou and Springer-Verlag Berlin, 2012, 641 p., ISBN: 3642182895. This book provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of research on sonar design, including the basic theory and techniques of digital signal processing, basic concept of information theory, ocean acoustics, underwater acoustic signal propagation theory, and underwater signal...
New York: Springer, 2022. — 379 p. This textbook covers all related communication technologies of underwater wireless communication, such as acoustic communication, optical communication, and magneto-inductive communication. After describing each technology, the authors relay their pros and cons, as it is essential to learn the underlying mechanism, advancements, and...
World Scientific, 2010. — 412 p. A systematic study of chaotic ray dynamics in underwater acoustic waveguides began in the mid-1990s when it was realized that this factor plays a crucial role in long-range sound propagation in the ocean. The phenomenon of ray chaos and its manifestation at a finite wavelength — wave chaos — have been investigated by combining methods from the...
Wiley, 2010. — 618 p. Sonar and Underwater Acoustics brings together all the concepts necessary for designers and users of sonar systems. Unlike other books on this subject, which are often too specialized, this book is accessible to a wider audience. The first part focuses on the acoustic environment, antenna structures, and electric acoustic interface. The latter provides...
Academic Press, 1998. — 712 p. — (Applications of Modern Acoustics). — ISBN: 978-0124875708. The developments in the field of ocean acoustics over recent years make this book an important reference for specialists in acoustics, oceanography, marine biology, and related fields. Fundamentals of Acoustical Oceanography also encourages a new generation of scientists, engineers, and...
Plenum Press, Plenum Publishing, 1987, 839 p., ISBN: 1461290430 9781461318712 9781461290438 | Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress on Acoustics Associated Symposium on Underwater Acoustics This book contains the proceedings of the 12th ICA Associated Symposium on Underwater Acoustics held at the Chateau Halifax hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada, 16-18 July 1986...
Pergamon Press, 1976. — 382 p. Mechanics of Underwater Noise elucidates the basic mechanisms by which noise is generated, transmitted by structures and radiated into the sea. Organized into 10 chapters, this book begins with a description of noise, decibels and levels, significance of spectra, and passive sonar equation. Subsequent chapters discuss sound waves in liquids;...
Springer, 2007. — 610 p. — ISBN10: 0387329404, ISBN13: 978-0387329406 We have written this book as part of the underwater acoustics monograph series initiated by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Department of the Navy of the United States. The ONR objective for this series is publication of in-depth reviews and analyses of the state of understanding of the physics of sound...
Imperial College Press, 1997. — 454 p. This important book provides an account of the linear acoustics of basic isotropic/anisotropic structures excited by time-harmonic and transient mechanical forces and acoustic sources. Many numerical examples are given to aid physical insight and to provide benchmark computations of sound radiation and sound scattering. The theoretical...
Springer, 2001. — 221 p. Inverse problems have a long history in acoustics, optics, electromagnetics and geophysics, but only recently have the signals provided by ocean acoustic sensors become numerous and sophisticated enough to allow for realistic identification of the ocean parameters. Acoustic signals propagating for long distances in the water column and reflections of...
Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, 2005. – 418 p.– ISBN: 0521847575 Originally published in 2005, this book is an introduction to the physics of suspensions of bubbles, droplets, and solid particles in both gases and fluids. Rather than treating each combination separately, a unified approach is used that permits most particle-fluid combination types to be discussed...
D.Reidel Publishing Company, 1985. — 762 p. The NATO Advanced Study Institute on Adaptive Methods in Underwater Acoustics was held on 30 July - 10 August 1984 in LLineburg, Germany. The Institute was primarily concerned with signal processing for underwater appl ica tions. The majority of the presentations, when taken together, yield a definite picture of the present status of...
CRC Press, 2010. — 322 p. A detailed review of underwater channel characteristics, Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks investigates the fundamental aspects of underwater communication. Prominent researchers from around the world consider contemporary challenges in the development of underwater acoustic sensor networks (UW-ASNs) and introduce a cross-layer approach for effective...
Springer, 2016. — Proceedings of the 4th Pacific Rim Underwater Acoustics Conference. These proceedings are a collection of 16 selected scientific papers and reviews by distinguished international experts that were presented at the 4th Pacific Rim Underwater Acoustics Conference (PRUAC), held in Hangzhou, China in October 2013. The topics discussed at the conference include...
Wiley, 2014. — 412 p. This book, which is the first to describe the processing techniques central to underwater OFDM, is arranged into four distinct sections: First, it describes the characteristics of underwater acoustic channels, and stresses the difference from wireless radio channels. Then it goes over the basics of OFDM and channel coding. The second part starts with an...
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