October 1989 VOLUME 14 NUMBER 4 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Bathymetry and Seafloor Acoustic Remote Sensing

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

EDITOR'S NOTE
Frederick H. Fisher Editor's Note 285

GUEST EDITORIAL AND OVERVIEW
Christian de Moustier Guest Editorial and Overview 286

INVITED AND CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
Philip N. Denbigh Swath bathymetry: Principles of operation and an analysis of errors 289
Richard J. Babb Feasibility of interferometric swath bathymetry using GLORIA, a long-range sidescan 299
Timo-Pekka Jäntti Trials and experimental results of the ECHOS XD multibeam echo sounder 306
Behrooz Kamgar-Parsi, Lawrence J. Rosenblum, Frank J. Pipitone, Larry S. Davis, and Jeffrey L. Jones Toward an automated system for a correctly registered bathymetric chart 314
John A. Goff and Thomas H. Jordan Stochastic modeling of seafloor morphology: Resolution of topographic parameters by sea beam data 326
Deborah K. Smith and Peter R. Shaw Using topographic slope distributions to infer seafloor patterns 338
Alberto Malinverno Segmentation of topographic profiles of the seafloor based on a self-affine model 348
Kevin B. Briggs Microtopographical roughness of shallow-water continental shelves 360
N. C. Mitchell and M. L. Somers Quantitative backscatter measurements with a long-range side-scan sonar 368

REGULAR ISSUE PAPERS
Erik C. van Ballegooijen, Gerard W. M. van Mierlo, C. van Schooneveld, Phil P. M. van der Zalm, Alan T. Parsons, and Norman H. Field Measurement of towed array position, shape, and attitude 375
Said E. El-Khamy, Onsy A. Abdel Alim, Ali M. Rushdi, and Abdulfattah H. Banah Code-fed omnidirectional arrays 384
Lawrence J. Ziomek Three-dimensional ray acoustics: New expressions for the amplitude, eikonal, and phase functions 396
Michael F. Werby and Guillermo C. Gaunaurd Broadside resonance scattering from elastic spheroids 400

LETTERS
Donald E. Barrick and Belinda J. Lipa Correction to "An Evaluation of Least-Squares and Closed-Form Dual-Angle Methods for CODAR Surface-Current Applications" 407