Atmospheric acoustic remote sensing. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Stuart Bradley.
• Other Names: Bradley, Stuart
• Contents: What Is Atmospheric Acoustic Remote Sensing? ; Direct Measurements and Remote Measurements; How Can Measurements Be Made Remotely?; Passive and Active Remote Sensing; Some History; Why Use Acoustics?; Direct Sound Propagation from a Source to a Receiver; Acoustic Targets; Creating Our Own Target; Modern Acoustic Remote Sensing; Applications; Where to, from Here?; The Atmosphere Near the Ground ; Temperature Profiles Near the Surface; Wind Profiles Near the Surface; Richardson Number; The Prandtl Number; The Structure of Turbulence; Monin-Oboukhov Length; Similarity Relationships; Profiles of and ; Probability Distribution of Wind Speeds; Sound in the Atmosphere ; Basics of Sound Waves; Frequency Spectra; Background and System Noise; Reflection and Refraction; Diffraction; Doppler Shift; Scattering; Attenuation; Sound Propagation Horizontally; Sound Transmission and Reception ; Geometric Objective of SODAR Design; Speakers, Horns, and Antennas; Monostatic and Bistatic SODAR Systems; Doppler Shift from Monostatic and Bistatic SODARs; Beam Width Effects on Doppler Shift; Continuous and Pulsed Systems; Geometry of Scattering; The Acoustic Radar Equation; Acoustic Baffles; Frequency-Dependent Form of the Acoustic Radar Equation; Obtaining Wind Vectors; Multiple Frequencies; Pulse Coding Methods; SODAR Systems and Signal Quality ; Transducer and Antenna Combinations; SODAR Timing; Basic Hardware Units; Data Availability; Loss of Signal in Noise; Calibration; SODAR Signal Analysis ; Signal Acquisition; Detecting Signals in Noise; Consistency Methods; Turbulent Intensities; Peak Detection Methods of AeroVironment and Metek; Robust Estimation of Doppler Shift from SODAR Spectra; Averaging to Improve SNR; Spatial and Temporal Separation of Sampling Volumes; Sources of Measurement Error; A Model for SODAR Response to a Prescribed Atmosphere; RASS Systems ; RADAR Fundamentals; Reflection of RADAR Signals from Sound Waves; Estimation of Measured Height; Deduction of Temperature; Wind Measurements; Turbulent Measurements; RASS Designs; Antennas; Limitations; Applications ; Review of Selected Applications; Environmental Research ; Boundary Layer Research ; Wind Power and Loading ; Complex Terrain ; Sound Speed Profiles ; Hazards ; Appendix 1: Mathematical Background; Appendix 2: Sample Data Sets and Matlab Code; Appendix 3: Available Systems; Appendix 4: Acoustic Travel Time Tomography; Appendix 5: Installation of a SODAR or RASS; Index
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (296 pages), (15 illustrations)
• Subjects: 551.50284; Remote sensing; Sound-waves; Atmosphere -- Remote sensing
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420005288; 1420005286
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