Underwater Signal and Data Processing

INTRODUCTION. Signal, Noise, Channel: Processing, and Their Interrelations. ADVANCED SIGNAL PROCESSING. Basic Signal Processing: Windowing and Gating. HORIZONTAL AND HOMOGENEOUS CHANNELS. Time Delay Estimation Using the Generalized Correlator. Performance of Discrete Implementation of the Generalized Correlator in the Presence of Noise. Effective Threshold Time Delay Estimation in the Presence of Interference and Noise. VERTICAL AND MULTIPATH CHANNELS. Time Delay Estimation in a Simple Multipath Channel in the Presence of Noise and Interference. Generalized Time Delay Estimation in a Multipath Noisy Channel. Signal and Channel Estimation in Reverberant, Distortional, and Dispersive Environments. CONTACT LOCALIZATION. Actual and Lower Bound Localization Accuracies. Errors in Direction Finding Methods. Contact Ranging Performance in Horizontal Ocean Channels. Contact Ranging Performance with Statically Perturbed Array. Contact Localization Performance in Multipath Ocean Channels. Bias Removal in Localization. CONTACT TRACKING. An Overview of Contact Motion Analysis in the Ocean Environment. Contact Motion, Observation, and Estimation. Bearings-Only Contact Motion Estimation. Contact Tracking Using a Triple Aperture Linear Array. Contact Tracking in a Multipath Environment. Linear Tracking and Data Association Problems. SPECIAL TOPICS. Interactive Signal and Data Processing. Expert System Concepts for Contact Localization and Tracking. Functional Methods for Prediction and Processing of Underwater Sound and Vibration. Signal Prediction in Presence of Multiplicative Noise. Index