Aspects of Signal Processing

Subject 1 - Properties of Time/Space Variant Transmission Channel and Underwater Communications.- Multipath Propagation and its Effects on Sonar Design and Performance in the Real Ocean.- The Influence of Time- and Space-Variant Random Filters on Signal Processing.- Parametric Acoustic Arrays.- Acoustic and Electromagnetic Waves Propagating in a Tenuous Random.- Time-Frequency-Space Generalized Coherence and Scattering Functions.- Series Expansions of Velocity Profile, Horizontal Range and Travel Time of Ray Theory in Oceans.- Horizontal Spatial Coherence Measurements with Explosives and CW-Sources in Shallow Water.- Measurement of the Weighting Function of the Time-Variant Shallow Water Channel.- Subject 2 - Detection Estimation and Tracking Techniques.- Power-Spectrum Estimation.- to Detection and Estimation.- Modelling and Detection.- Bayes Optimal Versus Estimate and Plug Array Processor Performance when there is Directional Uncertainty.- A Sequential Likelihood Ratio Detection System.- Estimation of the Time Position of a Pulse in Noise.- Maximum Likelihood Detection of Signals in Noise of Unknown Level.- The Role of Coherence in Time Delay Estimation.- Target Classification and Hypothesis Testing.- An Adaptive Kalman Filter Tracker for Multi-Mode Range/Doppler Sonar.- Structure Estimation from Acoustic Reflection Measurements.- Subject 3 - Time-Space Processing, Adaptive Processing and Normalization, Quantization Methods.- An Introduction to Adaptive Processing in a Passive Sonar System.- Some Lessons from Array Processing Theory.- Number Theoretic Transforms.- Stationary and Nonstationary Learning Characteristics of the LMS Adaptive Filter.- An Adaptive Approach to Underwater Passive Detection.