Estimating equivalent bottom geoacoustial parameters from broadband inversion

The partners of the INTIMATE project wish to thank the staff of NRP ANDROMEDA, the staff of BO D’ENTRECASTEAUX and people of Mission Oceanographique de l’Atlantique (aboard D’ENTRECASTEAUX). We also wish to thank the SACLANT Undersea Research Center for lending the Portable Array System and Roberto Chiarabini (SACLANTCEN) for his participation in the array preparation, deployment and use. Thanks to T. Folegot and G. Bonnaillie (CMO) for their active contribution in this work. The study was jointly sponsored by SHOM (exploratory program 95901), the Portuguese Ministery of Research (PRAXIS XXI) and ONR (contract N00014-95-1-0558).