Continue Measurement and Analysis of Geologically Induced Clutter in Seafloor Scattering
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• Characterize acoustic clutter in a manner that will lead to its mitigation. • Improve the understanding of the effects of seafloor morphology and composition on scattering and clutter. • Improve geo-acoustic parameter extraction from reverberation data. • Improve our understanding of the multi-static physical mechanisms (below 5kHz) which scatter incident energy into a receiver and which can possess target-like characteristics (clutter). • Construct suitable current high fidelity reverberation and scattering models for model/data comparison and inversion.
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تاریخ انتشار 2015