The University of Washington’s Applied Physics Laboratory’s participation in the Philippine Sea 2009 and Philippine Sea 2010 experiments: A summary.

Abstract

The Office of Naval Research’s (ONR) program in Ocean Acoustics maintains a thrust in deep‐water acoustics and has recently funded two major efforts in the Philippine Sea known as PhilSea09 and PhilSea10. PhilSea09 was planned as a pilot study and an engineering test in preparation for the more extensive PhilSea10 experiment. However, PhilSea09 was also partially supported by ONR’s program in undersea signal processing. This paper will summarize the Applied Physics Laboratory’s involvement in PhilSea09, its support to the undersea signal processing program, and the Laboratory’s efforts in PhilSea10.