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Acoustic buoys were developed to allow the rapid determination of range-dependent bottom properties in a shallow water environment from the inversion of propagation measurements. The main features of the buoys are the large dynamic range, digital signal conditioning unit, global positioning system receiver and reliable radio data link. The buoys drift away from a broadband source receiving its pings at known positions. Single hydrophone, matched waveform, inversion techniques are applied to the received signals to invert for geoacoustic parameters. Eight prototypes were tested over the southern continental shelf off the island of Marettimo (Sicily) during the EnVerse 97 sea trials. Calibrated measurements of medium impulse responses were obtained between a controlled source and a field of receivers drifting over carbonate bioclastic sediments with outcropping rocky substratum. Inversion results agree with ground truth data obtained during the EnVerse 98 geophysic survey.
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Hermand, JP. et al. (2000). Geoacoustic Inversion with Drifting Buoys: Enverse 1997–98 Experiments (Marettimo Is.). In: Caiti, A., Hermand, JP., Jesus, S.M., Porter, M.B. (eds) Experimental Acoustic Inversion Methods for Exploration of the Shallow Water Environment. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4112-3_17
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