Underwater Acoustic System Analysis by William S. Burdic

Abstract

2nd ed. Originally published: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, 1991. Historical background -- Acoustic waves in a homogeneous medium -- Acoustic transducers -- Reflection, transmission, and refraction -- Fourier methods -- Discrete fourier methods -- Correlation and correlation functions -- Random processes -- Ambient noise in the ocean -- spatial filtering I: Beamforming -- Acoustic characteristics of targets -- Statistical basis for performance analysis -- Spatial filtering II: Adaptive methods -- System performance analysis: Examples -- Appendix: Answers for selected problems.