A shallow water sonar performance prediction system

Summary form only given, as follows. Standard Navy sonar system performance prediction models typically have focused on deep-water applications. The author has developed a family of ray-based shallow water prediction models which form a physically realistic, consistent, and robust system for the prediction of system signal, noise, and reverberation levels. The embedded propagation loss model, SMART, has performed well against several difficult ocean data sets. The author describes the shallow water prediction system, including comparisons with measurement and other prediction models.