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A technique for imaging large areas of the ocean floor by globally inverting reverberation data is under development. We simultaneously invert beamformed data measured at a variety of towed-array locations and orientations. By optimal use of the data we produce a high resolution scattering strength image of the ocean bottom. Inherent to this global inversion is the removal of the “right-left ambiguity” of the beamformed data. The method has been successfully tested with synthetic data for a simple scattering model. It is being developed further to analyze bottom reverberation data acquired during the Office of Naval Research/Special Research Project Acoustic Reconnaissance Cruise.
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Makris, N.C., Berkson, J.M., Kuperman, W.A., Perkins, J.S. (1993). Ocean-Basin Scale Inversion of Reverberation Data. In: Ellis, D.D., Preston, J.R., Urban, H.G. (eds) Ocean Reverberation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2078-4_26
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