The sound of sediments : acoustic sensing in uncertain environments

van Leijen, A.V.

Author: A.V. van Leijen
Title: The sound of sediments : acoustic sensing in uncertain environments
Supervisors: F.C.A. Groen
Co-supervisors: L.J.M. Rothkrantz
Award date: 18 March 2010
Number of pages: 132
ISBN: 9789090248950
Document type: PhD thesis
Faculty: Faculty of Science (FNWI)
Institute: Informatics Institute (IVI)
Permalink: http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.317911

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Thesis
Front cover
Title pages
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Operational context
Chapter 3: Acoustic inversion
Chapter 4: Geoacoustic inversion using a survey vessel as sound source
Chapter 5: Geoacoustic inversion with an autonomous underwater vehicle
Chapter 6: Inversion with Ant Colony Optimization
Chapter 7: Metaheuristic optimization of acoustic inverse problems
Chapter 8: Conclusions
Appendix A: Ambient noise curves
Appendix B: Sound speed equations (in water)
Appendix C: Test functions for tuning
Bibliography
Acronyms
Summary
Samenvatting

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