Acoustic Signal Processing for Ocean Exploration

CW and Pulse Propagation Modeling in Ocean Acoustics.- Mechanisms of Bottom Loss in Underwater Acoustics.- Directional Measurement of Deep Sea Ambient Noise Spectra.- Inversion of Acoustic Field Data for Bathymetry and Bottom Sound Speed via Simulated Annealing.- Non-Parametric Estimation and Statistical Properties of an Ocean Acoustic Pressure Field.- Computation of Modal Wavenumbers and Wavenumber Integrals using Adaptive Methods with Error Control.- Sound Propagation in Upper Layers of the Ocean Comprising Bubble Clouds.- Matched Field Processing in Ocean Acoustics.- Source Location Observability in the Underwater Multipath Acoustic Channel.- Model-Based Processing of Large Time-Bandwidth-Product Signals in a Time-Dispersive Ducted Sound Channel.- Signal Resolution in Low Doppler Interference.- Downslope Conversion.- Wideband Matched-Field Processing in a Random Ocean Channel.- Wavefront Reconstruction Applied to Matched Field Processing in Variable, Multimode Waveguides.- Detection of Slow Targets by a Moving Active Sonar.- The Spatial Correlation and Structure Function for Propagation Loss Fluctuations.- Aspects of Systems Engineering for a Matched Field Processor.- Geometrical Methods for Direction Determination.- A Comparison of Spatial Signal Processors with Realistic Data.- Array Processing using Higher Order Statistics.- A Reduced-Rank Generalized Likelihood-Ratio Test.- Estimating the Shape of a Towed Array of Hydrophones Using Both Acoustic and Non-Acoustic Sensor Techniques.- Effect of Biased Compasses on Towed Array Shape Estimates Obtained from Kaiman Filters.- Estimation of the Directions of Arrival of Signals in Unknown Correlated Noise: Application of Generalized Correlation Analysis.- Performance Evaluation of the High-Resolution Array Processing Algorithms Using Real Sonar Data.- Acoustic Signal Detection in Uncertain Ocean Environments.- Passive Localization and Tracking of a Narrowband Source.- A Bayesian Approach to Target Detection in Jamming.- Tracking with Doppler and Bearing Measurements Using Conditional PDF.- Passive Detection and Localization Using Long-Term Spectral Integration.- EM Algorithm for Wideband Source Location Estimation.- Wave Parameters Estimation for Transient Data.- Signal Processing for Swath Bathymetry and Concurrent Seafloor Acoustic Imaging.- Sonar Imaging of the Seabed: Techniques, Performance, Applications.- Application of Acoustics in Fisheries, with Particular Reference to Signal Processing.- Modelling and Estimation for Random Fields.- 2D Linear Optimal Statistical Signal Processing on Finite Lattices.- An Evaluation of Target Strength Estimation from Echo Ensembles.- A Distorted Array Focusing Technique for Sonar Imaging.- Are the Present-days Theoretical Deconvolution Methods Adapted to Ocean Acoustic Tomography in a Complex Acoustic Channel.- Signal and Image Restoration Using a Standard Hopfield Neural Network.- Underwater Surveillance — Concepts, Equipment and Results.- Signal Processing on FSK Pulses for Seafloor Mapping System.- Multi-Target Ambiguity Functions.- Sliding Windowed Fourier Transforms and the Heisenberg Group.- Optimum Signal Processing and Medium Characterization in the Time-Frequency and Wavelet Transform Domains.- Wavelet Detection of Real Propagated Transient Signals.- Time-Frequency Approaches for Sonar Target Description: Application to Fisheries.- Supervised Design of Optimal Receivers.- Hartley Cepstrum Analysis of Acoustic Signals.- Pattern Processing in the Mammalian Brain.- A 3D Vision System for Underwater Vehicles: An Extended Kalman-BucyFiltering Approach.- Robotic Sensors: Acoustic and Optical Options.- Simulation Study of an Integrated Guidance System for an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle.- Nonlinear Phase Estimation and Detection in Digital Communication.- A Model Based Equalization Structure for Underwater Communications.- Coherent Communications over Long Range Underwater Acoustic Telemetry Channels.- Characterization of a Class of M-ary Absolute Phase Modulation.- EKF Schemes in Array Processing.- Algorithmic Engineering in Adaptive Signal Processing.- Development of Parallel Computing.- List of Participants.- Index of Subjects.- Index of Authors.