July 1985 VOLUME 10 NUMBER 3 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Beam forming

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

GUEST EDITORIAL AND OVERVIEW
Mario D. Grossi and Giorgio Tacconi Guest editorial and overview 197

INVITED PAPERS
Santi  Calderone, Giuseppe Intilisano, Pier Giuseppe Mantica, Ivo Montrosset, and Renato Orta Beam propagation in the ocean: Quasi-particle approach 199
Johann F. Böhme Source-parameter estimation by approximate maximum likelihood and nonlinear regression 206
Guillermo C. Gaunaurd Sonar cross sections of bodies partially insonified by finite sound beams 213
Meng Hwa Er and Antonio Cantoni A new approach to the design of broad-band element space antenna array processors 231
Carl M. Bennett Adaptive frequency-domain beam forming and spectral analysis using small sparse arrays 241
Magdy T. Hanna and Marwan Simaan Array filters for sidelobe elimination 248
Charles L. Byrne and Alan K. Steele Stable nonlinear methods for sensor array processing; 255

PAPERS
Dirk Rathjen, Götz Bödecker, and Manfred Siegel Omnidirectional beam forming for linear antennas by means of interpolated signals 260

INVITED PAPERS
Douglas A. Gray Effect of time-delay errors on the beam pattern of a linear array 269
Lal Chand Godara The effect of phase-shifter errors on the performance of an antenna-array beamformer 278
William S. Hodgkiss Jr. and Dimitri Alexandrou Under-ice reverberation rejection 285
William A. Kuperman, Michael F. Werby, Kenneth E.  Gilbert, and Gerard J. Tango Beam forming on bottom-interacting tow-ship noise 290
Jonathan M. Berkson, Hendrik J. Kloosterman, Tuncay Akal, and Jean-Louis Berrou Application of beam forming techniques to measurements of acoustic scattering from the ocean bottom 299

PAPERS
Roger F. Dwyer Asymptotic detection performance of discrete power and higher-order spectra estimates 303
Hideto Mitome, Toshio Koda, and Shuji Shibata An acoustic positioning system using demodulated signals of an FM ultrasonic wave 316
Luo Jiuru Model JDC1-1 precision conductivity ratio measurement system 324

BOOK REVIEWS
William M. Carey The Times Atlas of the Oceans 332