Browsing by Author "Akal, Tuncay"
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Acoustical characteristics of the sea floor: experimental techniques and some examples from the Mediterranean Sea
Akal, Tuncay (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1974/11)The acoustical properties of the sea floor are primarily determined by the physical properties of the sediments, layering in the sediments, and the roughness of the bottom and sub-bottom. Over the last decade many cores ... -
Analysis of basin backscattering in the Levantine Sea
Preston, John R.; Akal, Tuncay; Fiori, Sergio (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1989/12)Research has been conducted in the Levantine Sea basin to measure low-frequency basin reverberation and relate the measurements to backscattering strength. The receivers were a towed horizontal array and a suspended vertical ... -
Application of beam-forming techniques to measurements of acoustic scattering from the ocean
Berkson, Jonathan M.; Kloosterman, Hendrik J.; Akal, Tuncay; Berrou, Jean-Louis (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1986/10)Signals from an explosive source backscattered from the seafloor and received at long range by -
Broadband acoustic transmission intensity fluctuations in the Tyrrhenian Sea
Akal, Tuncay; Uscinski, B. J. (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1996/11)An acoustic propagation experiment was carried out in the Tyrrhenian Sea in October 1985 in which signals from a broadband source were recorded at a range of 5 km with a vertical 62 m hydrophone array over a period of 5 ... -
Directional measurements of low-frequency acoustic backscattering from the seafloor
Berkson, Jonathan M.; Akal, Tuncay; Kloosterman, Hendrik J.; Berrou, Jean-Louis (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1986/06)Long-range, low-frequency directional measurements of acoustic backscattering from the seafloor were made in the Tyrrhenian Sea using explosi ve sound sources. The signals were received by a horizontal towed array of ... -
Experimental demonstration of the focused acoustic field in the ocean
Akal, Tuncay; Ferla, Melchiorre C.; Kuperman, William A.; Hodgkiss, W. S.; Song, H. C.; Jackson, Darrell R. (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/10)An experiment conducted in the Mediterranean Sea in April1996 demonstrated that a time reversal mirror (or phase conjugate array) can be implemented to spatially and temporally refocus an incident acoustic field back to ... -
High frequency acoustic propagation in coastal waters
Akal, Tuncay; Lyons, Anthony P.; Di Iorio, Daniela; Guerrini, Piero (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)High Frequency Acoustic Propagation experiments were performed with bottom-mounted sources and receivers at different coastal sites. A measurement technique has been developed and propagation loss data have been taken using ... -
Instrumentation for crosshole geoacoustic measurements in unconsolidated sediments
Muir, Tom G.; Akal, Tuncay; Michelozzi, Enzo; Gualdesi, Lavinio; Miaschi, Bruno; Guidi, Guido; Fiori, Sergio (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1994/06)Research tools are described that enable direct measurements of sediment properties as a function of depth in unconsolidat,ed sediments. The first tool is a hole making device that sits on the sea floor and utilizes pneumatic ... -
Oceanographic measurements of the West Black Sea: November 26 to December 14, 1995
Di Iorio, Daniela; Akal, Tuncay; Sellschopp, Jürgen; Guerrini, Piero; Yuce, Hüseyin; Gezgin, E. (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1998/06)Mediterranean water inflow into the Black Sea is investigated using acoustic and oceanographic data obtained in the Black Sea exit region. Temporal and spatial variability in the flow and their relation to atmospheric and ... -
Oceanography of the Strait of Sicily: proceedings of a conference held at SACLANTCEN on 11-12 April 1972
Allan, Thomas D.; Akal, Tuncay; Molcard, Robert (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1972/09) -
RAPID RESPONSE, september 1996: modelling of broadband transmission loss along selected tracks in the Strait of Sicily
Ferla, Carlo M.; Jensen, Finn B.; Akal, Tuncay (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997/07)A large set of experimental acoustic broadband data in the 50-3200 Hz band is analyzed with the objective of deriving average geoacoustic models for three sites in the Strait of Sicily. The experimental data were obtained ... -
Selected papers on ocean-seismo acoustics, low-frequency underwater acoustics based on the SACLANTCEN contributions to a symposium held by SACLANTCEN on 10-14 June 1985
Akal, Tuncay; Berkson, Jonathan M. (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1986/06) -
Statistical evaluation of 80 kHz shallow-water seafloor reverberation
Lyons, Anthony P.; Abraham, Douglas A.; Akal, Tuncay; Guerrini, Piero (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)In this work a comparison is presented between 80 kHz reverberation statistics obtained at shallow water sites around Sardinia and Sicily. The data include measurements from several distinct bottom provinces, including ... -
Statistical evaluation of 80 kHz shallow-water seafloor reverberation
Lyons, Anthony .P.; Abraham, Douglas A.; Akal, Tuncay; Guerrini, Piero (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997/09)Knowledge of the background reverberation environment is a prerequisite for the design of any target detection scheme. While the problem of understanding and predicting high-frequency background reverberation level or mean ... -
Temporal and spatial variabilities in shallow water acoustics: measurements and predictions
Ali, Hassan B.; Ferla, Melchiorre C.; Akal, Tuncay (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1985/03)An acoustic signal propagating in the sea is generally degraded not only by interactions with the bottom and surface boundaries, but also by volume inhomogeneities caused by non-uniformities in temperature, density, and ... -
The general geophysics and geology of the Strait of Sicily
Akal, Tuncay (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1972/09)Available geophysical and geological data combined with newly compiled bathymetric, bottom sample, underwater photograph and recently published geophysical data [Ref. lJ have been analysed to describe the geophysical and ... -
The use of Love waves to determine the geoacoustic properties of marine sediments
Akal, Tuncay; Schmidt, Henrik; Curzi, P. (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1986/06)The importance of the geoacoustic properties of marine sediments for low-frequency shallow water propagation is well established. Reliable compressional properties can be obtained from laboratory analysis of collected ... -
Time dependence of infrasonic ambient seafloor noise on a continental shelf
Akal, Tuncay; Barbagelata, Alessandro; Guidi, Guido; Snoek, Michael (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1986/06)SACLANTCEN is conducting a long term programme of ambient noise measurements that cover the frequency band from 1 to 100 Hz. A sea-bed sensor consisting of three seismometers and a hydrophone has been deployed close to the ... -
Transmission-time variability, vertical spatial and temporal analysis of NAPOLI'85, an experiment in the Tyrrhenian Sea
Potter, John Robert; Akal, Tuncay; Uscinski, B. J. (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1989/09)An acoustic propagation experiment (NAPOLI '85) was carried out in the Tyrrhenian Sea in October 1985 in which signals from a broadband source were recorded at a range of 5 km with a vertical 62-m hydrophone array over a ... -
Two-dimensional space-series analysis for sea-floor roughness
Akal, Tuncay; Hovem, Jens M. (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1979/10)For a quantitative description of the sea-floor roughness, a numerical method has been developed to obtain the two-dimensional power spectrum and the autocorrelation function. The determination of these parameters gives ...