Sonar target discrimination by instrumented human divers
- 1 March 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Vol. 59 (3) , 602-606
- https://doi.org/10.1121/1.380905
Abstract
A series of sonar discrimination experiments was performed using instrumented human divers wearing a helmet with a sending and 2 receiving transducers. Porpoiselike broad-band clicks, with energy centered about 60 kHz, were projected and the returning echoes stretched electronically in time by a factor of 128 to enable the divers to hear them. Data were collected using metallic plate targets and targets of different geometrical shapes that were previously used in experiments with a porpoise. A comparison of scores indicated that the instrumented divers performed as well as, and in some cases better than, the porpoise.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: