Adaptive Methods in Underwater Acoustics

to sampled data and correlation sequences.- An extended maximum entropy method for high resolution spatial processing.- Spectral and interspectral analysis of low frequency submarine acoustic signals received on an array of sensors.- Overview of adaptive array processing.- New approaches in the adaptive array processing field.- Multiple detection using eigenvalues when the noise spatial coherence is partially unknown.- Theoretical and experimental comparisons of optimum element, beam and eigen space array processors.- Applications of some statistical measures to spatial signal processing.- The cross correlation matrix in spatial processing.- The effect of bandwidth on the performance of a postbeamformer interference canceller.- A new approach to the design of broadband element space antenna array processors.- On the role of prior information in nonlinear bearing estimation.- Beamforming by the cross-correlation analysis of received spectra.- Applications of adaptive array processing.- Adaptive active sonar reception in shallow water using vertical array outputs covariance matrix eigenvalues: experimental results.- Beamforming with a distorted towed array.- Influence of hydrophone position errors on spatial signal processing algorithms.- A tutorial introduction to nonlinear filtering.- Detection with uncertainty: Nonparametric, robust or adaptive approaches.- The design of optimal processors for arrays with non-Gaussian noise inputs.- Adaptive processing of underwater acoustic signals in non-Gaussian noise environments: I. Detection in the space-time threshold regimes.- Detection and classification phenomena of biological systems.- Detection and recognition of moving or randomly scaled objects.- Iterative algorithms for deconvolution and reconstruction of multidimensional signals from their projections.- 3. Techniques and Applications.- Digital signal processing for sonar.- Optical signal processing.- Beamforming for sonar signals by means of an incoherent acousto-optical processor: experimental results.- Adaptation of fiber optics to hydrophone applications.- Ceramic elastomer composite hydrophone.- Expert systems for ship noise interpretation.- Comparison of the statistical and the expert system approach for the interpretation of ship noise.- Signal processing techniques to analyse and simulate radiated underwater ship propeller noise.- Signal processing in ocean tomography.- New advances towards ocean, acoustics and space integration.- Passive synthetic aperture sonar - an analysis of the beamforming process.- Techniques for measuring backscattering from the sea floor with an array.- AEON - adaptive time-space array processing.- Summaries of Workshops.