January 1986 VOLUME 11 NUMBER 1 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Ocean acoustic remote sensing

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

GUEST EDITORIAL
John E. Ehrenberg Guest editorial and overview 1

INVITED PAPERS
William E. Woodward and Gerald F. Appell Current velocity measurements using acoustic Doppler backscatter: A review 3
Kenneth B. Theriault Incoherent multibeam Doppler current profiler performance: Part I--Estimate variance 7
Kenneth B. Theriault Incoherent multibeam Doppler current profiler performance: Part II--Spatial response 16
D. Scott Hansen Oceanic incoherent Doppler sonar spectral analysis by conventional and finite-parameter modeling methods 26
David M. Farmer and Steven F. Clifford Space-time acoustic scintillation analysis: A new technique for probing ocean flows 42
James A. Mercer Acoustic oceanography by remote sensing 51
T. M. Georges, R. Michael Jones, and J. P. Riley Simulating ocean acoustic tomography measurements with Hamiltonian ray tracing 58
Thomas J. Eisler and Denise A. Stevenson Performance bounds for acoustic tomography in a vertical ocean slice 72
Timothy K. Stanton and Clarence S. Clay Sonar echo statistics as a remote-sensing tool: Volume and seafloor 79
Hyuck M. Kwon and Theodore G. Birdsall Channel capacity in bits per joule 97
Salvatore D. Morgera, Keith A. Reuben, and Cedric Cole A microprocessor-based acoustic telemetry system for tide measurement 100

PAPERS
Kenneth D. Hill, Thomas M. Dauphinee, and Donald J. Woods The extension of the Practical Salinity Scale 1978 to low salinities 109
I. J. Won and K. Smits Characterization of shallow ocean sediments using the airborne electromagnetic method 113
Pierre Da Sylva, Pierre Menard, and Dipak Roy A reconfigurable real-time interpolation beamformer 123
Michael P. Shevenell A simulation involving MAPS video bandwidth reduction, acoustic channel errors, and error checking 127

BOOK REVIEWS
Anthony I. Eller Military modeling 135
Leon R. Warren Seafloor scour--Design guidelines for ocean-founded structures 135

CORRECTIONS AND COMMENTS
Roger F. Dwyer Erratum: "Asymptotic detection performance of discrete power and higher-order spectra estimates" 136