Principles of Sonar Performance Modelling

✍ Scribed by Michael Ainslie (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 737
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Dr Ainslie’s book provides a long-awaited complete and modern treatment of sonar performance modelling (SPM). In this context, the word "sonar" is used in a broad sense, to mean any deliberate use of underwater sound, including by marine mammals. The acronym "SONAR" stands for "sound navigation and ranging", but this book demonstrates how sonar systems and methodology are used for a variety of sensing, communications and deterrence systems, and by a number of industries and end-users (military, offshore, fisheries, surveyors and oceanography).

The first three chapters provide background information and introduce the sonar equations. The author then lays the main foundations with separate chapters on acoustical oceanography, underwater acoustics, signal processing and statistical detection theory. These disparate disciplines are integrated expertly and authoritatively into a coherent whole, with as much detail as necessary added for more advanced applications of SPM. The book is illustrated with numerous worked examples, at both introductory and advanced levels, created using a variety of modern SPM tools.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-26
Essential background....Pages 27-52
The sonar equations....Pages 53-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Sonar oceanography....Pages 125-190
Underwater acoustics....Pages 191-249
Sonar signal processing....Pages 251-310
Statistical detection theory....Pages 311-358
Front Matter....Pages 359-359
Sources and scatterers of sound....Pages 361-438
Propagation of underwater sound....Pages 439-512
Transmitter and receiver characteristics....Pages 513-571
The sonar equations revisited....Pages 573-633
Back Matter....Pages 635-707

✦ Subjects

Geophysics/Geodesy;Oceanography;Acoustics;Environment, general