TY - JOUR
T1 - Boundary characterization experiment series overview
AU - Holland, Charles W.
AU - Gauss, Roger C.
AU - Hines, Paul C.
AU - Nielsen, Peter
AU - Preston, John R.
AU - Harrison, Chris H.
AU - Ellis, Dale D.
AU - LePage, Kevin D.
AU - Osler, John
AU - Nero, Redwood W.
AU - Hutt, Dan
AU - Turgut, Altan
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received February 13, 2004; accepted June 9, 2005. Work supported by NATO Undersea Research Centre, Italy, Office of Naval Research, USA, and DRDC Atlantic, Canada. Guest Editor: J. F. Lynch. C. W. Holland and J. R. Preston are with the Applied Research Laboratory, the Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16804 USA (e-mail: [email protected]). R. C. Gauss, K. D. LePage, and A. Turgut are with the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC 20375 USA. P. C. Hines, D. D. Ellis, J. Osler, and D. Hutt are with the Defence Research & Development, Canada-Atlantic, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 3Z7 Canada. P. Nielsen and C. H. Harrison are with the NATO Undersea Research Centre, La Spezia, Italy. R. W. Nero is with the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529 USA. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JOE.2005.862133
PY - 2005/10
Y1 - 2005/10
N2 - Ocean acoustic propagation and reverberation in continental shelf regions is often controlled by the seabed and sea surface boundaries. A series of three multi-national and multi-disciplinary experiments was conducted between 2000-2002 to identify and measure key ocean boundary characteristics. The frequency range of interest was nominally 500-5000 Hz with the main focus on the seabed, which is generally considered as the boundary of greatest importance and least understood. Two of the experiments were conducted in the Mediterranean in the Strait of Sicily and one experiment in the North Atlantic with sites on the outer New Jersey Shelf (STRATAFORM area) and on the Scotian Shelf. Measurements included seabed reflection, seabed, surface, and biologic scattering, propagation, reverberation, and ambient noise along with supporting oceanographic, geologic, and geophysical data. This paper is primarily intended to provide an overview of the experiments and the strategies that linked the various measurements together, with detailed experiment results contained in various papers in this volume and other sources.
AB - Ocean acoustic propagation and reverberation in continental shelf regions is often controlled by the seabed and sea surface boundaries. A series of three multi-national and multi-disciplinary experiments was conducted between 2000-2002 to identify and measure key ocean boundary characteristics. The frequency range of interest was nominally 500-5000 Hz with the main focus on the seabed, which is generally considered as the boundary of greatest importance and least understood. Two of the experiments were conducted in the Mediterranean in the Strait of Sicily and one experiment in the North Atlantic with sites on the outer New Jersey Shelf (STRATAFORM area) and on the Scotian Shelf. Measurements included seabed reflection, seabed, surface, and biologic scattering, propagation, reverberation, and ambient noise along with supporting oceanographic, geologic, and geophysical data. This paper is primarily intended to provide an overview of the experiments and the strategies that linked the various measurements together, with detailed experiment results contained in various papers in this volume and other sources.
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U2 - 10.1109/JOE.2005.862133
DO - 10.1109/JOE.2005.862133
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:33144463618
SN - 0364-9059
VL - 30
SP - 784
EP - 806
JO - IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
JF - IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
IS - 4
ER -