Benjamin A. Jones

TL;DR: Analytical and numerical scattering models with accompanying digital representations are used increasingly to predict acoustic backscatter by fish and zooplankton in research and ecosystem monitoring applications and, in certain cases, outperformed the numerical models under conditions where the numerical model did not converge.

TL;DR: A comparison of echoes from targets apparently selected by the whale and those from a sample of scatterers that were not selected suggests that spectral features of the echoes, target strengths, or both may have been used by the Whale to discriminate between echoes.

TL;DR: A new method to predict acoustic scattering by weakly scattering objects with three-dimensional variability in sound speed and density shows significant improvement for both single-orientation and orientation-averaged scattering predictions over the DWBA-homogeneous-prolate-spheroid model.

TL;DR: In this limit predictable statistics of echo envelopes are obtained at all ranges and a computationally low-budget phasor summation can successfully predict the probability density functions when the beam pattern and number of scatterers ensonified are known quantities.

TL;DR: In this article, a joint program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) was used to train a team of oceanographers.