structured sessions

The following Structured Sessions on topics of current interest in underwater acoustics are organized:

• Acoustic Monitoring of Ocean Environments and Processes: Biology, Ecology, Geophysics and Man-made activities
  (presentations related to COVID-19 effects in the ocean acoustic record are highly encouraged)
  Organizer: Jennifer Miksis-Olds
  
• Acoustics in polar environments
  Organizers: Jaroslaw Tegowski, Philippe Blondel, Hanne Sagen
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• Advances in acoustic measurement systems: Technologies and applications
  Organizer: Alessandra Tesei 
  
• Comprehensive nuclear test-ban treaty monitoring
  Organizers: Georgios Haralabus, Mario Zampolli and Peter Nielsen
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• Environmental acoustics and noise
  Organiser: David Barclay
  
• Large Time-Bandwidth acoustic signals for target detection and tracking
  Organizer: Alessandra Tesei
   
• Machine learning, compressive sensing and signal processing
  Organizers:Angeliki Xenaki, Peter Gerstoft
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• Marine sediment acoustics
  Organizers: Megan Ballard, Kevin Lee
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• Modeling techniques for underwater acoustic scattering and propagation (including 3D effects)
  Organizers: Aaron Gunderson, Boris Katsnelson, Pavel Petrov
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• Multibeam Echo Sounding: Bathymetry and sediment Classification
  Organizers: Dick Simons, Mirjam Snellen , Tannaz Haji Mohammadloo 
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• Seabed acoustics
  Organizers: Nick Chotiros 
  
• Situation-adaptive distributed networked systems
  Organizers: Frank Ehlers, Arne Schulz  
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• Sonar performance modeling and verification. Applications to active and passive sonar
  Organizers: Mathieu Colin, Mark Prior, Kevin Heaney and Dale Ellis
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• Target Echo Strength-Measurements and Modelling
  Organizers: Duncan Williams, David Nunn, Marten Nijhof
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• Towards Automatic Target Recognition. Detection, Classification and Modelling
  Organizers: Johannes Groen, Wolfgang Jans, Yan Pailhas, Vincent Myers, Roy Edgar Hansen
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• Underwater acoustic calibration, testing, facilities and standards
  Organizers: Stephen Robinson, Markus Linné, Steven Crocker
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• Underwater Communications and Networking
  Organizers: Charalampos Tsimenidis, Paul Mitchell, Konstantinos Pelekanakis
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• Underwater Noise - Modelling and Measurements
  Organizers:Alexander Gavrilov, Emmanuel Skarsoulis, Michael Taroudakis
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• Underwater Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) Detection and Remediation
  Organizers: Wolfgang Jans, Mike Richardson, David Bradley
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• Vector Hydrophone Research
  Organizers: Desen Yang