Sea bottom parameter estimation by inversion of underwater acoustic sonar data

Snellen, M.

Author: M. Snellen
Title: Sea bottom parameter estimation by inversion of underwater acoustic sonar data
Supervisors: F.C.A. Groen
D.G. Simons
Award date: 11 June 2002
Document type: PhD thesis
Faculty: Faculty of Science (FNWI)
Institute: Informatics Institute (IVI)
Permalink: http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.203282

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Chapter 1 General introduction
Chapter 2 Seabed effects on underwater acoustic propagation
Chapter 3 Single-frequency and multi-frequency matched field inversion using a genetic algorithm
Chapter 4 Multi-frequency matched field inversion of benchmark data using a genetic algorithm
Chapter 5 An environmental assessment in the Strait of Sicily: Measurement and analysis techniques for determining bottom and oceanographic properties
Chapter 6 An evaluation of the accuracy of shallow water matched field inversion results
Chapter 7 Application of the downhill simplex algorithm to reduce the uncertainty in matched field inversion results
Chapter 8 Inversion for geo-acoustic bottom parameters and the water column sound speed profile
Chapter 9 Bottom classification capabilities of matched field inversion
Chapter 10 Summary and conclusions
Appendix A A numerical solution to the modal equation
Appendix B The vertical sonar array as receiving system
Appendix C Global optimization of a test function
Appendix D Applying Levenberg-marquardt as a local optimization method
Appendix E Existing geo-acoustic information for the Malta Plateau and the Elba area
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