An evaluation of a tactical active multi-environment acoustic prediction system vs measured data

This thesis evaluates the capabilities of MAPS ( Multi-Environment AIM (Acoustic Interference Monitor) Prediction System) to determine if the system can accurately predict shallow water propagation loss. SHAREM 102 produced real world propagation loss data from the Gulf of Oman that was used to cond...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coleman, Robert Eric.
Other Authors: Michael J. Pastore
Language:en_US
Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/25911
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Summary:This thesis evaluates the capabilities of MAPS ( Multi-Environment AIM (Acoustic Interference Monitor) Prediction System) to determine if the system can accurately predict shallow water propagation loss. SHAREM 102 produced real world propagation loss data from the Gulf of Oman that was used to conduct comparison runs using MAPS. It was found that MAPS was an accurate, user friendly, tactical decision aid for littoral shallow water predictions. MAPS Vs Measured Data From Gulf of Oman, High resolution bathymetry, Monostatic sonar, Littoral zones