Bibliography of articles on underwater sound transmission, detection, and identification 1956-1966

This bibliography consists of 1930 references from over 332 joturnals and other publications, and represents contributions from over 1664 authors. The reader is reminded that the individual papers of this survey contain a large number of worthwhile references, many of wihich are not included in the bibliography because of issue date or for other reasons. The bibliography in its entirety is set up to provide multiple entry points into a subject area. The subject matter of this bibliography includes theoretical and experimental informiiation on underwater acoustics and related fields. A rather liberal policy has been followed in defining boundaries of the subject area to be included. Information specifically concerned with ocean waves and currents as well as ocean bottom topography, sedimentation, and layers has been included only to the extent that it is important to the acoustic propagation and transmiission lproblems in the oceani and as far as it crystallizes the geometry and physical nature of the acoustic boundaries of the oceans. Papers which present new or novel combinations of old mathematical methods useful in ocean acoustics have also been includle(d whenever it was foun(d desirable. Of particular importance in this survey is the bibliography pertaining to the detection, estimation, and i(lelntification of acoustic signals. This part of the bibliograplhy can largely be identified with what is known as "time series analysis." In an effort to scrutinize the literature on timie series analysis as thoroughly as possible, it was also found niecessary to peruse the literature in statistics, probability, and stochastic processes. There is, consequently, a large number of references in statistics and probability theory in this survey.