Abstract
Underwater explosives are a popular source of acoustic energy because of their ease of deployment, broad bandwidth, high power and low cost. A significant disadvantage of using explosives is the difficulty in obtaining accurate source calibration, largely due to the sensitivity at low frequencies of the source spectrum to detonation depth.
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Hughes, R. (1981). Underwater Explosives: Scaling of Source Spectra. In: Bjørnø, L. (eds) Underwater Acoustics and Signal Processing. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, vol 66. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8447-9_6
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