Synthetic Aperture Sonar: Frontiers in Underwater Imaging Revolutionary Sonar Imaging Technology for Undersea Warfare And the Commercial Marketplace
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for range-independent resolution—was thought to be untenable due to lack of coherence in the ocean medium, precise platform navigation requirements and burdensome computation rates. With advances in innovative motion-compensation and auto-focusing techniques, signal-processing hardware, affordable and precise navigation sensors, and stable submerged autonomous platforms, synthetic aperture sonar is now being used in commercial survey and military surveillance systems. Emerging applications for SAS systems include economic exclusion zone (EEZ) mapping, mine detection and the development of long-range imaging sonar for antisubmarine warfare. Synthetic Aperture Sonar: Frontiers in Underwater Imaging
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تاریخ انتشار 2010