Underwater Acoustics (PDF)

Offering complete and comprehensive coverage of modern sonar
spectrum system analysis, Underwater Acoustics: Analysis, Design
and Performance of Sonar provides a state-of-the-art
introduction to the subject and has been carefully structured to
offer a much-needed update to the classic text by Urick. Expanded
to included computational approaches to the topic, this book treads
the line between the highly theoretical and mathematical texts and
the more populist, non-mathematical books that characterize the
existing literature in the field. The author compares and contrasts
different techniques for sonar design, analysis and performance
prediction and includes key experimental and theoretical results,
pointing the reader 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 appreciate 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 theory,
false alarms, contacts and targets, variability and uncertainty,
modelling detections and tactical decision aids, cumulative
probability of detection, tracking target motion analysis and
localization, and design and evaluation of sonars