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Title: Underwater Acoustics: Analysis, Design and Performance of Sonar Author: Richard P. Hodges
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN-10: 0470688750; ISBN-13: 978-0470688755
Binding: Hardcover Pages: 376
This book coveres modern sonar spectrum system analysis. It provides a state-of-the-art intro- duction to the subject and has been carefully structured to offer an update to the classic text by Urick and has been expanded to include computational approaches to the topic
The author compares and contrasts different techniques for sonar design, analysis and per- formance prediction and includes key experimental and theoretical results, pointing the read- er towards further detail with extensive references. Practitioners in the field of sonar design, analysis and performance prediction as well as graduate students and researchers will appre- ciate this new reference as an invaluable and timely contribution to the field.
Chapters include the sonar equation, radiated, self and ambient noise, active sonar sources, transmission loss, reverberation, transducers, active target strength, statistical detection theo- ry, false alarms, contacts and targets, variability and uncertainty, modeling detections and tac- tical decision aids, cumulative probability of detection, tracking target motion analysis and localization, and design and evaluation of sonar.
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