List of Abstracts

(Alphabetized by lead author)

(Red denotes an invited speaker)

 

1.

Biomimetic target classifications

A. Abawi, M. Porter, C. Tiemann, P. Hursky, S. Martin

2.

Echolocation signals of wild dolphins

W. Au

3.

Effects of environmental variability on fluctuations of moderate to high frequency acoustic propagation in shallow water

M. Badiey, R. Heitsenrether

4.

Effects of environmental variability on the bottom mounted vertical line array in KauaiEx

M. Badiey, S. Forsythe, Mike Porter, The KauaiEx Group

5.

The wave and material properties of marine sediments:  correlations and geoacoustic inversions

M. Buckingham

6.

Side-scan sonar survey operations in support of KauaiEx

J. Caruthers, C. Fisher, E. Quiroz, R. Meredith, N. Sidorovskaia, The KauaiEx Group

7.

Broadband temporal coherence results from the June 2003 Panama City coherence experiments

H. Chandler, S. Stanic, E. Kennedy, R. Meredith, R. Goodman

 

8.

Geoacoustic inversion of broadband data from the Florida Straits

R. Chapman, Y. Jiang

 

9.

Navy applications of high-frequency acoustics

H. Cox

10.

On the relationship between signal bandwidth and coherence for ocean surface forward scattered signals

L. Culver

 

11.

The sea surface bounce channel: angular spreading, and bubble-mediate energy losses

P. Dahl

 

12.

Measurement of the ocean's mid-frequency (1-10 kHz) noise field

G. D’Spain, H. Batchelor, G. Rovner, J. Skinner, W. Hodgkiss

 

13.

Predicting the environmental impact of active sonar

A. Duncan, R. McCauley, A. Maggi

 

14.

Mid to high-frequency ambient noise anisotropy and notch-filling mechanisms

P. Ferat, J. Arvelo.

 

15.

Ultrasonic time reversal mirrors

M. Fink

 

16.

The influence of the sea surface and fish on back and forward scattering

R. Gauss, D. Fromm, K. LePage, J. Fialkowski, R. Nero

 

17.

The dependence of long-range reverberation on bottom roughness

R. Gauss, D. Fromm, K. LePage, R. Gragg

 

18.

Environmental and motion effects on orthogonal frequency division multiplex on-off keying

P. Gendron,  T. Yang

 

19.

Low complexity algorithms for acoustic communications (acomms) in a high range rate environment

D. Green

 

20.

Synthetic undersea acoustic transmission channels

D. Green, R. Cristi, J. Rice

21.

Underwater acoustic communication channel capacity: A simulation study

T. Hayward, T. Yang

 

22.

 

High frequency rapid geo-acoustic characterization

K. Heaney

 

23.

Mid-frequency signal fluctuations and target localization

W. Hodgkiss, G. D’Spain, D. Ensberg

22.

Predictions and measurements of high frequency ambient noise

A. Holden

 

24.

Comparing single and multi-carrier modulation schemes for underwater acoustic communications

P. Hursky, V. McDonald, The KauaiEx Group

25.

Model-based tracking at high frequency

P. Hursky, M. Porter, The Kauaiex Group

26.

Progress and research issues in high-frequency seafloor scattering

D. Jackson

 

27.

Time reversal and spatial diversity: issues in a time varying geometry experiment

S. Jesus, A. Silva

28.

Nonlinear bubble dynamics and the effects on propagation through the near-surface bubble layer

T. Leighton, H. Drumbell, P. White, G. Heald

 

29.

Environmental effects of waveguide uncertainty on coherent aspects of propagation, scattering and reverberation

K. LePage, B.E. McDonald

 

30.

High frequency tomography using bottom-mounted transducers

J. Lewis, P. Stein, S. Rajan, A. Vandiver, The KauaiEx Group

 

31.

Mid frequency sonar backscatter measurements from a rippled bottom

J. Lopes, R. Lim, K. Commander

32.

A unique, high-speed, multi-channel data acquisition system developed for the 2003 Panama City coherence experiments

D. Malley, R. Brown, E. Kennedy, R. Meredith. H. Chandler, S. Stanic

 

33.

High-frequency material-dependent scattering processes for tilted truncated cylindrical and disk-shaped targets

P. Marston

34.

Telesonar testbed instrument provides a flexible platform for acoustic propagation and communication research in the 8-50 kHz band

V. McDonald, P. Hursky, The KauaiEx Group

35.

Panama City 2003 acoustic coherence experiments: environmental characterization

R. Meredith, R. Fisher, E. Kennedy, D. Malley, R. Brown, S. Stanic

 

36.

Low frequency acoustic bottom penetration variability at very shallow grazing angles
R. Meredith, S. Stanic, E. Kennedy, R. Goodman

37.

Fish clutter in shallow-water: observations on the New Jersey Shelf

R. Nero, N. Makris, D. Symonds, P. Ratilal, R. Gauss

38.

Underwater ambient noise and sperm whale click detection during extreme wind speed conditions

J. Newcomb, A. Wright, S. Kuczaj, R. Thames, W. Hillstrom, R. Goodman

 

39.

Using buried directional receivers in high-frequency seafloor studies

J. Osler, A. Lyons

 

40.

Towards a deterministic high frequency shallow water propagation model

L. Pautet, E. Pouliquen

 

41.

Possibilities in Doppler Acoustic Imaging

R. Pinkel, J. Smith

42.

The Kauai Experiment

M. Porter, P. Hursky, M. Siderius, M. Badiey, J. Caruthers, W. Hodgkiss, K. Raghukumar, D. Rouseff, W. Fox, C. deMoustier, B. Calder, B. Kraft, V. McDonald, P. Stein, J. Lewis, S. Rajan, The KauaiEx Group

43.

The impact of underwater acoustic channel structure and dynamics on the performance of adaptive coherent equalizers

J. Preisig

 

44.

Mean and covariance of forward propagated field through a random oceanic waveguide

P. Ratilal, N. Makris

 

45.

Fish schools are the dominant source of clutter in active sonar systems: 2003 main acoustic clutter experiment

P. Ratilal, D. Symonds, Y. Lai, S. Lee, N. Makris, R. Nero

 

46.

Broadband ocean reverberation coherence

J. Reeves, G. Morella

 

47.

Empirical predictions of seafloor properties based on remotely measured sediment impedance

M. Richardson, K. Briggs

 

48.

Acoustic communication using time-reversal signal processing: spatial and frequency diversity

D. Rouseff

 

49.

Broadband horizontal and vertical spatial coherence measurements

T. Ruppel, S. Stanic, G. Norton, R. Meredith, E. Kennedy, R. Goodman, M. Wilson

 

50.

Parabolic wave equation based rough sea surface scattering

F. Ryan

 

51.

Hybrid modeling framework for scattering from elastic targets partially or completely buried in the seabed

H. Schmidt, M. Zampolli

 

52.

Active sonar and the marine environment

E. Sevaldsen

 

53.

High frequency, uncertain/random channel characterization for sonar performance prediction

L. Sibul, C. Coviello, M. Roan

 

54.

High frequency geoacoustic inversion of ambient noise data using a short array

M. Siderius, C. Harrison

55.

Performance analysis and modeling of MFSK signals for KauaiEx

M. Siderius, M. Porter, KauaiEx Group

56.

Acoustic propagation studies for  sperm whale vocalization analysis during LADC experiments

N. Sidorovskaia, G. Ioup, J. Ioup, J. Caruthers

 

57.

Time reversal ocean acoustic experiments at 3.5 kHz: Applications to active sonar and undersea communications

H. Song, P. Roux, T. Akal, G. edelmann, W. Higley, W. Hodgkiss, W. Kuperman, K. Raghukumar, M. Stevenson

58.

High frequency propagation models: a comparison of performance in Brazilian shallow waters

A. Sousa, A. Correa

 

59.

Panama City 2003  broadband shallow-water acoustic coherence experiments  

S. Stanic, E. Kennedy, B. Brown, D. Malley, R. Meredith, R. Fisher, H, Chandler, R. Goodman, R. Ray

 

60.

Numerical modeling of bottom interaction

R. Stephen

 

61.

Spatio-temporal focusing for elimination of multipath effects in high rate acoustic communications

M. Stojanovic

 

62.

Analysis of acoustic communications data from the Baltic

E. Svensson, I. Karasalo

 

63.

A high-frequency active underwater acoustic barrier experiment using a time reversal mirror.  Model-data comparison

A. Tesei, H. Song, P. Guerrini, R. Hollett, M. Stevenson, W. Kuperman

 

64.

Modeling shallow water propagation with scattering from rough boundaries

E. Thorsos, F. Henyey, W. Elam, S. Reynolds, K. Williams

 

65.

Environmental effects on underwater acoustic communications:  a perspective from several experimental measurements

T. Yang

 

66.

High-frequency FH-FSK underwater acoustic communications:  the environmental effect and signal processing

W. Yang, T. Yang

 

67.

A finite-element tool for scattering from localized inhomogeneities and submerged elastic structures

M. Zampolli, D. Burnett, F. Jensen, A. Tesei, H. Schmidt

 

68.

Detection of direct path arrivals for multi-narrowband sequences (3-30 kHz) in shallow water

A. Zoksimovski, C. de Moustier