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Sonar and Underwater Acoustics brings together all the concepts necessary for designers and users of sonar systems. Unlike other books on this subject, which are often too specialized, this book is accessible to a wider audience. The first part focuses on the acoustic environment, antenna structures...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marage, Jean-Paul
Corporate Author: Knovel (Firm)
Other Authors: Mori, Yvon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: London : Hoboken, N.J. : ISTE ; Wiley, 2010.
Series:ISTE.
Subjects:
Underwater acoustics.
Sonar.
Acoustique sous-marine.
sonar.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Acoustics & Sound.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The approach
  • Sound propagation in the marine environment
  • Noise and reverberation
  • Radiated noise and clean sounds
  • Transmission of the acoustic signal. sonar equations
  • Electric-acoustic and acoustic-electric transformations
  • Performance and structures of acoustic antennas. antenna and radiation
  • Hydrophone-transducer electronics adaptation
  • Electro-mechanical-acoustic analogies
  • The criteria of choice in active treatment
  • The chain of processing active sonar
  • Theoretical notions in active treatment
  • Measures in underwater acoustics.