Surface Acoustic Signal Defader

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Medwin, Herman
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1980-08-26
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United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
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A surface acoustic signal defader for optimizing the signal received from underwater sound scattered from the ocean surface. The bandwidth of the underwater sound source is monitored and the frequency of maximum signal strength is identified. When the maximum signal strength frequency fades a predetermined amount, reception is switched to the signal of maximum anti-correlation. This process is continuous such that when the new frequency fades the anti-correlation process will determine the optimum frequency for the new fading condition, thus resulting in optimum reception of surface scattered underwater sound.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10945/7209
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4,219,888
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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