Recent Advances in Underwater Acoustics
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Circuit and Signal Processing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2025 | Viewed by 22
Special Issue Editors
Interests: signal processing; underwater acoustics
Interests: deep learning-driven underwater acoustic applications; short-time Fourier transform; time–frequency analysis; underwater image processing
Interests: underwater acoustic communications; underwater networks; network protocols; internet of underwater things
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Interests: underwater acoustic; optical networks; underwater multimodal communications
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
You are cordially invited to submit your research articles for publication in the Special Issue of Electronics titled, “Recent Advances in Underwater Acoustics”.
The ocean covers 70% of the Earth’s surface and is a source of food, minerals, and energy resources, yet a majority of the ocean remains unexplored. Underwater acoustic (UWA) communications, together with underwater sensor network and vehicular technology, are the key solutions to enable a wide range of applications such as environmental monitoring, oceanographic data collection, acoustic event detection, sea bottom surveying, and habitat mapping.
In this Special Issue, we focus on the recent advances in underwater acoustics including signal processing techniques as well as acoustic system design and applications. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- UWA communications (modem design, channel estimation and equalization, full-duplex UWA communication, etc);
- UWA channel modeling;
- UWA sensor networks (network protocols, network design);
- underwater navigation and localization;
- sonar (sonar signal processing, sonar applications);
- applications of machine learning/deep learning in UWA systems;
- results from field experiments.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles, including review articles, to bring together contibutions relevant to this research field and provide valuable insights for future research directions.
Dr. Lu Shen
Dr. Yongchun Miao
Dr. Nils Morozs
Dr. Filippo Campagnaro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- underwater acoustic communications
- underwater sensor networks
- underwater navigation and localization
- sonar
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