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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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;...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. — Christchurch: The University of Canterbury, 1996. — 254 p. This thesis contains the complete end-to-end simulation, development, implementation, and calibration of the wide bandwidth, low-Q, Kiwi-SAS synthetic aperture sonar (SAS). Through the use of a very stable towfish,...