10.7. Other Sonar Types
In addition to the SBESs and MBESs, side-scan and synthetic aperture sonars discussed in previous sections, underwater acoustic transducers are used in a broad variety of applications, such as positioning, navigation, velocity, and depth measurements; military detection and tracking of torpedoes and mines, as well as in their homing facilities; fishery; and communications and data transmission. Transducers used in fishery are discussed in detail in Chapter 12, Bio- and Fishery Acoustics, and Communications are dealt with in Chapter 11, Signal Processing. Although many new sonar types and their transducers have been developed and adapted to specific applications over recent years, this section focuses on few important and ...
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