Acoustic sampling volume
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5645As published
https://doi.org/10.1121/1.401963DOI
10.1121/1.401963Abstract
Knowledge of the acoustic sampling volume is necessary in many quantitative applications of acoustics. In general, the sampling volume is not merely a characteristic of the transmitting and receiving transducers, but also depends on the concentration and scattering properties of the target, the kind of signal processing performed on the echo, and the detection threshold. These dependences are stated explicitly in formulas for the sampling volume and a differential measure, the effective equivalent beam angle. Numerical examples are given for dispersed or dense concentrations of both point scatterers and directional fish scatterers. Application of theory to optical and other remote sensing techniques is mentioned.
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Author Posting. © Acoustical Society of America, 1991. This article is posted here by permission of Acoustical Society of America for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 90 (1991): 959-964, doi:10.1121/1.401963.
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