| Acoustical Oceanography |
Article Index for Acoustical |
Shopping Acoustical |
Shopping Oceanography |
Website Links For Acoustical |
Information AboutAcoustical Oceanography |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT ACOUSTICAL OCEANOGRAPHY | |
| acoustics | |
|
HISTORY The earliest and most widespread use of Sound and Sonar technology to study the properties of the sea is the use of an Echo Sounder to measure water depth. The development of high resolution sonar in the second half of the 20th Century made it possible to not just Detect underwater objects but to Classify them and even Image them. Important contributions to acoustical oceanography have been made by: THEORY See Clay and Medwin C. S. Clay & H. Medwin, Fundamentals of Acoustical Oceanography (Academic, Boston, 1998). MEASUREMENTS See Clay and Medwin APPLICATIONS Applications of acoustical oceanography include:
Depth sounding See Also: echo sounder Seabed classification Marine biology See Also: Bioacoustics The study of marine life, from Microplankton to the Blue Whale , uses Bioacoustics .E. J. Simmonds & D. N. MacLennan, Fisheries Acoustics, Second Edition (Blackwell, Oxford, 2005). REFERENCES |
|
|