Geoacoustic Inversion Using the Vector Field
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This research is being conducted under the Ocean Acoustics Graduate Traineeship / Special Research Award program. The first year of this award was FY10. The goal of this research is the study of new geoacoustic inverse methods using the information in the acoustic vector field. The fundamental question addressed by this effort is whether knowledge of the vector field can improve estimates for seabed properties as quantified by their a posteriori probability distributions and resolutions relative to approaches based solely on the scalar field.
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