Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing

Douglas A. Abraham received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and an M.S. degree in statistics from the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He has performed basic and applied research in underwater acoustic signal processing at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (New London, CT), the NATO SACLANT Undersea Research Centre (La Spezia, Italy), and the Applied Research Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University. He presently continues his professional and technical activities as a consultant. Dr. Abraham has also taught at the University of Connecticut as visiting faculty, and managed basic and applied research programs at the Office of Naval Research through an intergovernmental personnel assignment.

Dedication.- Foreword.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Acronyms and abbreviations.- Notation conventions, function, and transform definitions.- Part I Sonar and underwater acoustics.- 1 Introduction to underwater acoustic signal processing.- 2 Sonar systems and the sonar equation.- 3 Underwater acoustics.- Part II Systems, signal processing, and mathematical statistics background.- 4 Linear systems and signal processing.- 5 Mathematical statistics.- 6 Statistical signal processing.- Part III Detection in underwater acoustics.- 7 Underwater acoustic signal and noise modeling.- 8 Detecting signals with known form: Matched filters.- 9 Detecting signals with unknown form: Energy detectors.- 10 Detecting signals with unknown duration and/or starting time: Sequential detectors.- Index.