January 1994 VOLUME 19 NUMBER 1 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Shallow Water

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

GUEST EDITORIAL
Peter C. Wille, Werner R. Alpers, and Siegfried Stolte Guest editorial 1

SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS
Walter Puls, Roland Doerffer, and Jürgen Sündermann Numerical simulation and satellite observations of suspended matter in the North Sea 3
Siegfried Stolte Short-wave measurements by a fixed tower-based and a drifting buoy system 10
Jörg Förster Rain measurement on buoys using hydrophones 23
Siegfried Stolte Shallow water sonar conditions and radar backscatter 30
Ingo Hennings, Siegfried Stolte, and Friedwart Ziemer Experimental method to measure surface signature generation by sea bottom undulations 36
Bernd Nützel and Heinz Herwig A two-frequency hydroacoustic scatterometer for bubble scattering investigations 41
Peter D. Thorne, Peter J. Hardcastle, David Flatt, and John D. Humphery On the use of acoustics for measuring shallow water suspended sediment processes 48
Andrea Caiti, Tuncay Akal, and Robert D. Stoll Estimation of shear wave velocity in shallow marine sediments 58

REGULAR ISSUE PAPERS
Philippe De Heering, Klaus Uwe Simmer, Ezackiel Ochieng-Ogolla, and Alexander Wasiljeff A deconvolution algorithm for broadband synthetic aperture data processing 73
Richard O. Nielsen Azimuth and elevation angle estimation with a three-dimensional array 84
Amlan Kundu, George C. Chen, and Charles E. Persons Transient sonar signal classification using hidden Markov models and neural nets 87
Milaca Stojanovic, Josko A. Catipovic, and John G. Proakis Phase-coherent digital communications for underwater acoustic channels 100
John Hughes Clarke Toward remote seafloor classification using the angular response of acoustic backscattering: A case study from multiple overlapping GLORIA data 112
N. Convers Wyeth Methods of array element localization for a towed underwater acoustic array 128

COMMUNICATIONS
Roger J. Webster A random number generator for ocean noise statistics 134
Stephen G. Johnson and Michael A. Deaett The application of automated recognition techniques to side-scan sonar imagery 138