Ocean Reverberation

This volume comprises over fifty contributions resulting from the Ocean Reverberation Symposium, held 25--29 May 1992 in La Spezia, Italy. The contributions are presented in eight sections: Scattering Mechanisms, High Frequency Measurements and Mechanisms, Reverberation Modelling, ARSRP Mid-Atlantic Ridge Experiment, Low Frequency Measurements, Volume Scattering, Signal Processing Issues, and Applications respectively. This book addresses the emerging trends in ocean reverberation research. The availability of high-power, low-frequency sources and highly directional arrays has brought with it the tools, and the need, to study long-range reverberation. The use of projector sources and various waveforms rather than explosives allows the use of signal processing techniques to enhance the extraction of information about the reverberation and scattering processes.