ECUA 2012 - 11th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics

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Category ECUA 2012

Deadline: January 11, 2011 | Date: July 02, 2012-July 06, 2012

Venue/Country: Edinburgh, U.K.

Updated: 2011-12-15 13:03:17 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Conference Themes:

Contributed papers are invited in all areas of underwater acoustics. The main themes are: Underwater Acoustics; Acoustical Oceanography; Ambient and Radiated Noise; Bioacoustics; Scattering; Communications; Simulation and Modelling; Transducers and Calibration; Measurement and Signal Processing. The conference is organised around Structured Sessions, which include for ECUA 2012:

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS

FLUCTUATIONS & SCATTERING ? BARRY USCINSKI MEMORIAL SESSION

? Keynote: Terry Ewart

Peter Dobbins, Michael Ainslie & Andrew Holden

SEABED INTERACTIONS

Peter Thorne, Mike Buckingham & Mike Richardson

VOLUME SCATTERING & BUBBLY MEDIA (TBC)

R Lee Culver & Tim Leighton

ADVANCES IN FINITE-ELEMENT & SPECTRAL ELEMENT MODELLING

Mario Zampolli & Paul Cristini

VECTOR ACOUSTICS: THEORY, SENSORS & APPLICATIONS

Jean-Pierre Hermand, Tuncay Akal, Sérgio Jesus & Paulo Felisberto

SONAR PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT & MODELLING

Charles Holland, Dale Ellis & Michael Ainslie

BIOACOUSTICS

? Keynote: Peter Tyack

HEARING RESPONSE: Klaus Lucke

BIOSONAR & BIOMIMETICS: James Flint & Peter Dobbins

PROCESSING OF BIOACOUSTIC SIGNALS: Paul White

LONG-TERM MONITORING OF MARINE LIFE: THE USE OF PASSIVE ACOUSTIC DATA FOR QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES OF ABUNDANCE: Michel André & John Hildebrand

BEHAVIOURAL RESPONSE TO UNDERWATER SOUND: Tony Hawkins, Art Popper & Jakob Tougaard

IMPACT OF UNDERWATER SOUND ON MARINE LIFE: RISK ASSESSMENT & MITIGATION: Sander van Benda-Beckmann & Martin Siderius

ACOUSTICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

SEAFLOOR CHARACTERISATION: Gary Heald & Anatoliy Ivakin

POLAR ACOUSTICS: Jarek Tegowski & Sasha Gavrilov

ACOUSTIC MAPPING FOR UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGY: Andrea Caiti

HABITAT MAPPING: TECHNIQUES & APPLICATIONS: Philippe Blondel

MARINE GIS & 3D/4D VISUALISATION & MAPPING: Andrzej Stepnowski

HIGH-FREQUENCY MIDWATER MAPPING: Tom Weber

MARINE RENEWABLES: MAPPING AND MONITORING OF DEVICES AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT: Philippe Blondel & Paul Lepper

AMBIENT & RADIATED NOISE

? Keynote Michel André

MONITORING TECHNIQUES & LONG-TERM TRENDS IN OCEAN AMBIENT NOISE: Mark Prior & Ross Chapman

NOISE AND VIBRATION FROM MARINE PILING: Stephen Robinson & Paul Lepper

OPERATIONAL NOISE FROM MARINE RENEWABLES: Stephen Robinson & Paul Lepper

RADIATED NOISE FROM SHIPS AND SURFACE PLATFORMS: Christ de Jong & Anton Homm

SENSORS & CALIBRATION

SONAR & TRANSDUCER TEST & CALIBRATION: Victor Humphrey & Pete Theobald

MULTIBEAM ECHO SOUNDER CALIBRATION METHODS: Tom Weber

TRANSDUCERS: Keith Mayne & Mark Walsh

COMMUNICATIONS & SIGNAL PROCESSING

UNDERWATER COMMUNICATIONS: Bayan Sharif, Oliver Hinton & Charalampos Tsimenidis

MODEL-BASED SIGNAL PROCESSING: Douglas Abraham

TARGET STRENGTH & SCATTERING FROM OBJECTS ON THE SEABED: Duncan Williams & Andrew Holden

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION: Yan Pailhas & Chris Capus

SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR: Hans Groen & Michel Couillard

BATHYMETRY & MULTIBEAM SONAR: Mirjam Snellen & Dick Simons

NOISE CORRELATION PROCESSING (TBC): Martin Siderius & Chris Harrison

ACOUSTICS FOR OIL & GAS INDUSTRY: Robert Laws & Andrew Curtis

AUTONOMY AND UNDERWATER SENSING: Kevin LePage, Henrik Schmidt & Yvan Petillot

MARITIME SECURITY: Andrew Holden & Julian Deeks

Further details about ECUA 2012 can be found on our website at: www.ecua2012.com. The ECUA committee and IOA look forward to welcoming you to Edinburgh in 2012.