Provides a comprehensive exploration of underwater acoustics, acoustic signal generation, and acoustic signal processing for systems analysts, systems engineers and sonar engineers. This book is a reprint of the second edition published in 1991 and is still a classic text in the field. Updated and expanded in 1991, this edition contains all the valuable information it its earlier text plus a detailed discussion of adaptive processing as applied to spatial filtering. You will also find review sections on Fourier analysis, correlation, random processes and hypothesis testing. Highlights include: generation and propagation of compressional acoustic waves in the ocean; narrow band signatures of surface ships caused by cavitating propeller blades and diesel engine firing; optimization of signal-to-noise ratio and spatial resolution in the presence of multiple signals; ambient noise in the ocean; and examples of system performance.
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This text presents the fundamentals of underwater acoustics, acoustic signal generation, and acoustic signal processing.
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An excellent detailed text on underwater acoustics,
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This review is from: Underwater Acoustic System Analysis (Prentice-Hall Signal Processing Series) (Hardcover)
This book is ideally used to expand and support the concepts discussed and introduced in Urick's book. It is especially helpful in its treatment of random processes and their application to the understanding of underwater acoustics.Not an easy read but I recommend it as an essential text for any practising engineer or researcher in underwater acoustics.
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I had worked 14 years for a defense contractor as a Submarine Systems Engineer before leaving the company in 1989 to pursue a MS in Computer Science. Before leaving the company, I had pursued a MS in Ocean Engineering, majoring and/or emphasis in Underwater Acoustics.In the 90's, I worked in the private sector as a software engineer. I came back to the Defense industry in 1999 as a software engineer and now (2001) I'm again in Systems engineering dealing with sonar and acoustics. Everything that I had learned in 14 years either by doing (OJT) or taking university level or in-house courses is presented in Burdic's book. I don't want to overstate this but, if you can learn everything in his book, you'll have learned everything that took me 14 years to learn.
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isotropic noise field, resulting pattern function, angular power response, plane wave signals, signal ambiguity function, discrete line array, rectangular aperture function, negative sound speed gradient, isothermal surface layer, spherical spreading law, underwater acoustic systems, lossless electrical transmission line, spatial filter output, shadow zone boundary, effective time duration, eigenstructure decomposition, line hydrophone, predetection filter, ambient noise field, smoothed matrix, aperture vector, hydrophone sensitivity, assuming spherical spreading, ceramic stack, noise spectral level Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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isotropic noise field, resulting pattern function, angular power response, plane wave signals, signal ambiguity function, discrete line array, rectangular aperture function, negative sound speed gradient, isothermal surface layer, spherical spreading law, underwater acoustic systems, lossless electrical transmission line, spatial filter output, shadow zone boundary, effective time duration, eigenstructure decomposition, line hydrophone, predetection filter, ambient noise field, smoothed matrix, aperture vector, hydrophone sensitivity, assuming spherical spreading, ceramic stack, noise spectral level Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Suggested Reading, World War, Book Company, Gulf Stream, Beamforming Chap, Government Printing Office, John Wiley, Ocean Chap, United States, Englewood Cliffs, Fourier Methods Chap, Acoustic Transducers Chap, Random Processes Chap, Academic Press, Lord Rayleigh, North Atlantic Ocean, Pergamon Press, Radiation Laboratory, Dover Publications, Harvey Hayes, Historical Background Chap, Naval Underwater Systems Center, Pennsylvania State University Press, Repeat Problem New!
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- Principles of Underwater Sound for Engineers by R J Urick on 7 pages
- Principles of Underwater Sound 3rd Edition by Robert J. Urick on 7 pages
- Underwater Acoustics by V. Albers on 4 pages
- Fundamentals of Acoustics by Lawrence E. Kinsler on page 56, page 116, and page 148
- Engineering Mathematics by Kenneth S. Miller on page 191, and page 279
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- Signal Processing for Intelligent Sensor Systems (Signal Processing and Communications, Vol. 4) by David C. Swanson on 5 pages
- Echo Signal Processing (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) by Dennis W. Ricker on page 65, page 401, and Back Matter
- Advanced Signal Processing Handbook: Theory and Implementation for Radar, Sonar, and Medical Imaging Real Time Systems (Electrical Engineering & Applied Signal Processing Series) by Stergios Stergiopoulos on page 139, page 151, and page 199
- Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing, Volume I: Estimation Theory (v. 1) by Steven M. Kay in Front Matter, and page 13
- Advanced Applications in Acoustics, Noise and Vibration by Frank Fahy on page 151, and page 180
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