Phase conjugation in the ocean: Experimental demonstration of an acoustic time-reversal mirror

WA Kuperman, WS Hodgkiss, HC Song… - The journal of the …, 1998 - pubs.aip.org
An experiment conducted in the Mediterranean Sea in April 1996 demonstrated that a time-reversal
mirror (or phase conjugate array) can be implemented to spatially and temporally …

An initial demonstration of underwater acoustic communication using time reversal

…, T Akal, WS Hodgkiss, S Kim… - IEEE journal of …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In July 1999, an at-sea experiment to measure the focus of a 3.5-kHz centered time-reversal
mirror (TRM) was conducted in three different environments: an absorptive bottom, a …

Inversion for refractivity parameters from radar sea clutter

P Gerstoft, LT Rogers, JL Krolik, WS Hodgkiss - Radio science, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
This paper describes estimation of low‐altitude atmospheric refractivity from radar sea clutter
observations. The vertical structure of the refractive environment is modeled using five …

Refractivity estimation from sea clutter: An invited review

A Karimian, C Yardim, P Gerstoft, WS Hodgkiss… - Radio …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-standard radio wave propagation in the atmosphere is caused by anomalous changes
of the atmospheric refractivity index. In recent years, refractivity from clutter (RFC) has been …

Impact of ocean variability on coherent underwater acoustic communications during the Kauai experiment (KauaiEx)

A Song, M Badiey, HC Song, WS Hodgkiss… - The Journal of the …, 2008 - pubs.aip.org
During the July 2003 acoustic communications experiment conducted in 100 m deep water
off the western side of Kauai, Hawaii, a 10 s binary phase shift keying signal with a symbol …

Tracking refractivity from clutter using Kalman and particle filters

…, P Gerstoft, WS Hodgkiss - IEEE Transactions on …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the problem of tracking the spatial and temporal lower atmospheric variations in
maritime environments. The evolution of the range and height-dependent index of refraction …

Multi-frequency sparse Bayesian learning for robust matched field processing

…, S Nannuru, P Gerstoft, WS Hodgkiss - The Journal of the …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The multi-snapshot, multi-frequency sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) processor is derived
and its performance compared to the Bartlett, minimum variance distortionless response, and …

Energetics of the deep ocean's infrasonic sound field

GL D'Spain, WS Hodgkiss, GL Edmonds - The Journal of the …, 1991 - pubs.aip.org
Simultaneous measurements of infrasonic (0.5–20 Hz) acoustic particle velocity and acoustic
pressure made by the Marine Physical Laboratory’s set of freely drifting Swallow floats are …

Estimation of radio refractivity from radar clutter using Bayesian Monte Carlo analysis

…, P Gerstoft, WS Hodgkiss - IEEE Transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper describes a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling approach for the
estimation of not only the radio refractivity profiles from radar clutter but also the uncertainties in …

Adaptive and compressive matched field processing

KL Gemba, WS Hodgkiss, P Gerstoft - The Journal of the Acoustical …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
Matched field processing is a generalized beamforming method that matches received array
data to a dictionary of replica vectors in order to locate one or more sources. Its solution set …