Abstract
Underwater acoustic systems inevitably involve the detection of signals. The fundamental criterion which determines the effectiveness of all detection processes has to do with determining the extent to which the received signal exceeds, or is swamped by, such corrupting influences as may exist. In electromagnetic detection equipments — radio and radar systems — antenna- borne signals are of such small size that the significant corrupting influence may well be the similarly small, random, gaussian noise waveforms deriving from charge transport processes or molecular agitation in the antenna and front-end receiving circuits.
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Coates, R.F.W. (1990). The Sonar Equations. In: Underwater Acoustic Systems. Macmillan New Electronics Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20508-0_2
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