January 1987 VOLUME 12 NUMBER 1 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Underwater acoustic signal processing

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents

GUEST EDITORIAL
Roger F. Dwyer Guest Editorial 2

INVITED PAPERS
    Medium Modeling and Statistical Signal Processing
David Middleton Channel Modeling and Threshold Signal Processing in Underwater Acoustics: An Analytical Overview 4
Peter K. Willett and John B. Thomas Mixture models for underwater burst noise and their relationship to a simple bivariate density representation 29
Evriclea Voudouri and Ludwik Kurz A class of sequential adaptive detectors for underwater non-gaussian noise environments 38
    Robust and Nonparametric Acoustic Signal Processing
H. Vincent Poor Uncertainty tolerance in underwater acoustic signal processing 48
Saleem A. Kassam Nonparametric Hard Limiting and Sign Detection of Narrow-Band Deterministic and Random Signals 66
Albert S. Paulson and Gerald R. Swope Autoregressive Process Order Selection via Model-Critical Methods 75
    Higher Order Spectral Estimation
Fuminori Sakaguchi and Hideaki Sakai A spectrum Separation Method for the Sum of Two Non-Gaussian Stationary Time Series Using Higher Order Periodograms 80
N. Srinivasa, K. R. Ramakrishnan, and K. Rajgopal Two-Dimensional Spectral Estimation: A Radon Transform Approach 90
    Nonstationary Signal Processing
Daniel Bukofzer Optimum and Suboptimum Detector Performance for Signals in Cyclostationary Noise 97
James C. Luby and Dean W. Lytle Autoregressive Modeling of Nonstationary Multibeam Sonar Reverberation 116
Dennis R. Morgan Two-Dimensional Normalization Techniques 130
Michael A. Deaett Signature Modeling for Acoustic Trainer Synthesis 143
    Array Signal Processing
Loren W. Nolte, Sang C. Lee, and Sien-Chang C. Liu On Performance of Array Signal Processing 148
Michael S. Sherrill and Roy L. Streit In Situ Optimal Reshading of Arrays With Failed Elements 155
Arogyaswami Paulraj, V. Umapathi Reddy, and Thomas Kailath Analysis of Signal Cancellation Due To Multipath in Optimum Beamformers for Moving Arrays 163
Michael B. Porter, Ronald L. Dicus, and Richard G. Fizell Simulations of Matched-Field Processing in a Deep-Water Pacific Environment 173
    Underwater Target Tracking
Terry L. Henderson Wide-Band Monopulse Sonar: Processor Performance in the Remote Profiling Application 182
Robert R. Read Remote Monitoring of the Calibration of a System of Tracking Arrays 198
Jonathan S. Abel and Khosrow Lashkari Track Parameter Estimation from Multipath Delay Information 207
Richard L. Moose, M. K. Sistanizadeh, and Gisli Skagfjord Adaptive State Estimation for a System With Unknown Input and Measurement Bias 222
Paul L. Feintuch and Neil J. Bershad Matched-Filter Envelope Detector Deflection Performance for a Correlated Phase Channel 228
    Passive Localization
Benjamin Friedlander A Passive Localization Algorithm and Its Accurancy Analysis 234
Julius O. Smith and Jonathan S. Abel The spherical interpolation method of source localization 246
Cedric A. Zala, Ian Barrodale, and J. S. Kennedy High-Resolution Signal and Noise Field Estimation Using the L 1 (Least Absolute Values) Norm 253
Joseph J. Perruzzi, Edward J. Hilliard Jr., and David V. Pereira The Application of Conditional Beta Density Functions to Model Time- Delay Measurement Errors 265
Roger J. Tremblay, G. Clifford Carter, and Dean W. Lytle A Practical Approach to the Estimation of Amplitude and Time-Delay Parameters of a Composite Signal 273

INVITED COMMUNICATIONS
Richard J. Kenefic and Albert H. Nuttall Maximum likelihood estimation of the parameters of a tone using real discrete data 279

PAPERS
David S. Burnett and Chung-Chun Ong Shortening of submerged ocean cables due to hydrostatic pressure 281
Timothy Griesser and Constantine A. Balanis Oceanic low-angle monopulse radar tracking errors 289
Pat S. DeLeonibus and Lloyd S. Simpson Dissipation observations of drag coefficients over the open ocean 296

COMMUNICATIONS
I. J. Won The geometrical factor of a marine resistivity probe with four ring electrodes 301

BOOK REVIEWS
Lee D. Creswell Handbook of Mechanical Damping and Acoustical Dynamic Properties of Rubbers and Elastomers 304