A shallow-water ocean acoustics inverse problem

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-1-2005

Abstract

A shallow-water ocean acoustics experiment is proposed from which it is possible to determine in principle the scattering data necessary to recover the sound-speed profile in the ocean bottom. These data are a "reflection coefficient," which is not the usual one. The reflection coefficient is amplitude of the outgoing wave at infinite depth due to a unit amplitude plane wave incident from infinite depth. The unusual fact is that this reflection coefficient can be recovered from a measurement in the ocean. The essential assumptions are that the sound-speed profile is known in the ocean but unknown in the bottom, and that the measurements are made in the ocean layer. © 2005 Acoustical Society of America.

Identifier

30844472006 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Acoustic Research Letters Online

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1121/1.2127116

ISSN

15297853

First Page

287

Last Page

290

Issue

4

Volume

6

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