Synthetic Aperture Sonar: Frontiers in Underwater Imaging

From: Sea Technology | Date: November 1, 2004| Author: Pesaturo, John F; Sternlicht, Daniel | Copyright information

Revolutionary Sonar Imaging Technology for Undersea Warfare And the Commercial Marketplace

Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) is a revolutionary underwater imaging technique that significantly rivals the breakthrough technical capabilities enabled by synthetic aperture radar (SAR)-extraordinary area coverage, providing both imagery and bathymetry at a high degree of spatial resolution.

For a generation, innovators in underwater acoustics dreamed of replicating SAR concepts with side...

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