Principles of Sonar Performance Modelling

• Main Author: Ainslie, Michael (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Engineering.; Geophysics.; Oceanography.; Acoustics.; Acoustical engineering.; Environment.; Engineering Acoustics.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Environment, general.

Dr Ainslie’s book provides a long-awaited complete and modern treatment of sonar performance modelling (SPM). In this context, the word "sonar" is used in a broad sense, to mean any deliberate use of underwater sound, including by marine mammals. The acronym "SONAR" stands for &q...

Table of Contents:

• FOUNDATIONS
• Essential background
• The sonar equations
• THE FOUR PILLARS
• Sonar oceanography
• Underwater acoustics
• Sonar signal processing
• Statistical detection theory
• TOWARDS APPLICATIONS
• Sources and scatterers of sound
• Propagation of underwater sound
• Transmitter and receiver characteristics
• The sonar equations revisited.