January 1999 VOLUME 24 NUMBER 1 IJOEDY(ISSN 0364-9059)

NONTECHNICAL CONTENT
Front cover and table of contents
Back cover

EDITORIAL
William M. Carey Message from the outgoing editor-in-chief 1
James F. Lynch Message from the incoming editor-in-chief 2

PAPERS
Jacques Châtillon, Alan E. Adams, Michael A. Lawlor, and Manell E. Zakharia SAMI: A low-frequency prototype for mapping and imaging of the seabed by means of synthetic aperture 4
Timothy F. Duda and James C. Preisig A modeling study of acoustic propagation through moving shallow-water solitary wave packets 16
Malcolm Hawkes and Arye Nehorai Effects of sensor placement on acoustic vector-sensor array performance 33
Jean-Pierre Hermand Broad-band geoacoustic inversion in shallow water from waveguide impulse response measurements on a single hydrophone: Theory and experimental results 41
Lisa A. Pflug, George E. Ioup, and Juliette W. Ioup Functional inputs to passive correlation detectors for oscillatory transient signals 67
Donna M. Kocak, Niels Da Vitoria Lobo, and Edith A. Widder Computer vision techniques for quantifying, tracking, and identifying bioluminescent plankton 81
David M. Lane, J. Bruce C. Davies, Graham Robinson, Desmond J. O'Brien, Jim Sneddon, Euan Seaton, and Anders Elfstrom The AMADEUS dextrous subsea hand: design, modeling, and sensor processing 96
Chris T. Tindle and Martin J. Murphy Microseisms and ocean wave measurements 112

TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS
Sathish Chandran and Mohammad K. Ibrahim DOA estimation of wide-band signals based on time-frequency analysis 116