January 1997 VOLUME 22 NUMBER 1 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)


 SPECIAL ISSUE ON Image processing for oceanic applications

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS
    Satellite Imagery of Ocean Surface
James V. Candy and David H. Chambers Model-based enhancement of internal wave images 1
Antony K. Liu, Chich Y. Peng, and Steve Y.-S. Chang Wavelet analysis of satellite images for coastal watch 9
Charles L. Rino, Eric Eckert, Alan Siegel, Timothy Webster, Andy Ochadlick, Mike Rankin, and Jon Davis X-band low-grazing-angle ocean backscatter obtained during LOGAN 1993 18
    Sidescan/Sector-Scan Imaging Applications
Peter T. Gough and David W. Hawkins Imaging algorithms for a strip-map synthetic aperture sonar: Minimizing the effects of aperture errors and aperture undersampling 27
Bjarne Stage and Benoit Zerr Detection of objects on the sea bottom using backscattering characteristics dependent on the observation point 40
M. J. Chantler and John P. Stoner Automatic interpretation of sonar image sequences using temporal feature measures 47
Gian Luca Foresti, Vittorio Murino, Carlo S. Regazzoni, and Andrea Trucco A voting-based approach for fast object recognition in underwater acoustic images 57
    Echo Classification
Frances B. Shin, David H. Kil, and Richard F. Wayland Active impulsive echo discrimination in shallow water by mapping target physics-derived features to classifiers 66
    Video Imagery
K. Todd Holland, Robert A. Holman, Thomas C. Lippmann, John Stanley, and Nathaniel Plant Practical use of video imagery in nearshore oceanographic field studies 81
Lixue Wu, Adam Zielinski, and John S. Bird Lossless compression of hydroacoustic image data 93

REGULAR ISSUE PAPERS
Robert J. Cederberg and Michael D. Collins Application of an improved self-starter to geoacoustic inversion 102
Ronald A. Wagstaff The AWSUM filter: A 20-dB gain fluctuation-based processor 110
Susan D. Gardner and Ronald A. Wagstaff DIET AWSUM: A fluctuation-based deconvolution technique for enhancing signal-to-noise ratio and resolution 119
John L. Spiesberger, Anatoly L. Fabrikant, Anisim A. Silivra, and Harley E. Hurlburt Mapping climatic temperature changes in the ocean with acoustic tomography: Navigational requirements 128
Anisim A. Silivra, John L. Spiesberger, Anatoly L. Fabrikant, and Harley E. Hurlburt Acoustic tomography at basin scales and clock errors 143
R. J. Martin and M. J. Kearney Remote sea current sensing using HF radar: An autoregressive approach 151
David A. Chin, Supraja Chinthamreddy, Lynn K. Shay, and Hans C. Graber The structure of ocean-surface currents measured by Doppler radar 156
Steven C. Nardone and Marcus L. Graham A closed-form solution to bearings-only target motion analysis 168
V. P. Felix, R. Narasimman, and R. C. Agarwal Perceptually optimum gray-scale transformation of multibin time history data 179

TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS
I. R. Young, M. A. Dalton, P. J. McMahon, and L. A. Verhagen Design of an integrated shallow water wave experiment 184

COMMUNICATIONS
G. Jourdain Comments on "A low sidelobe technique for the direct measurement of scattering functions" 189
Dennis W. Ricker and Michael J. Gustafson Author's reply 189