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Table of contents (25 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This volume contains the collection of papers from the second workshop on Experimental Acoustic Inversion Techniques for Exploration of the Shallow Water Environment.
Acoustic techniques provide the most effective means for remote sensing of ocean and sea floor processes, and for probing the structure beneath the sea floor. No other energy propagates as efficiently in the ocean: radio waves and visible light are severely limited in range because the ocean is a highly conductive medium. However, sound from breaking waves and coastal shipping can be heard throughout the ocean, and marine mammals communicate acoustically over basin scale distances.
The papers in this book indicate a high level of research interest that has generated significant progress in development and application of experimental acoustic inversion techniques. The applications span a broad scope in geosciences, from geophysical, biological and even geochemical research. The list includes: estimation of geotechnical properties of sea bed materials; navigation and mapping of the sea floor; fisheries, aquaculture and sea bed habitat assessment; monitoring of marine mammals; sediment transport; and investigation of natural geohazards in marine sediments.
Audience
This book is primarily intended for physicists and engineers working in underwater acoustics and oceanic engineering. It will also be of interest to marine biologists, geophysicists and oceanographers as potential users of the methodologies and techniques described in the book contributions.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Pisa, Italy
Andrea Caiti
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University of Victoria, Canada
N. Ross Chapman
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Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Jean-Pierre Hermand
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University of Algarve, Portugal
Sérgio M. Jesus
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Acoustic Sensing Techniques for the Shallow Water Environment
Book Subtitle: Inversion Methods and Experiments
Editors: Andrea Caiti, N. Ross Chapman, Jean-Pierre Hermand, Sérgio M. Jesus
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4386-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4372-7Published: 29 August 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0461-6Published: 30 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4386-4Published: 21 September 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 332
Topics: Oceanography, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Acoustics, Geophysics/Geodesy, Offshore Engineering, Signal, Image and Speech Processing