Derek R Olson

Derek R Olson

Assistant Professor in Oceanography at the Naval Postgraduate School.

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Publications

  1. Gruber, J. A., and Olson, D. R. (2024). “Scattering measurements of rocky seafloors using a split-beam echosounder,” JASA Express Letters, , doi: 10.1121/10.0024755. doi:10.1121/10.0024755 [PDF]
  2. Olson, D. R. (2023). “The effect of seafloor roughness on passive estimates of the seabed reflection coefficient,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153, 586–601. doi:10.1121/10.0016846 [PDF]
  3. Olson, D. R., and Isakson, M. J. (2023). “Testing the theoreticians,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 153, R7–R8. doi:.org/10.1121/10.0017718 [PDF]
  4. Lyons, A. P., Olson, D. R., and Hansen, R. E. (2022). “Modeling the effect of random roughness on synthetic aperture sonar image statistics,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152, 1363–1374. doi:10.1121/10.0013837 [PDF]
  5. Kucukosmanoglu, M., Colosi, J. A., Worcester, P. F., Dzieciuch, M. A., Olson, D. R., Richards, E. L., and Miller, C. W. (2022). “Beaufort Sea observations of 11 to 12.5 kHz surface pulse reflections near 50 degree grazing angle from summer 2016 to summer 2017,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151, 106–125. doi:10.1121/10.0009164 [PDF]
  6. Choi, W.-S., Olson, D. R., Davis, D., Zhang, M., Racson, A., Bingham, B., McCarrin, M., et al. (2021). “Physics-Based Modelling and Simulation of Multibeam Echosounder Perception for Autonomous Underwater Manipulation,” Frontiers in Robotics and AI, , doi: 10.3389/frobt.2021.706646. doi:10.3389/frobt.2021.706646 [PDF]
  7. Olson, D. R., and Lyons, A. P. (2021). “Resolution dependence of rough surface scattering using a power law roughness spectrum,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149, 28–48. doi:10.1121/10.0002974 [PDF]
  8. Olson, D. R. (2021). “A series approximation to the Kirchhoff integral for Gaussian and exponential roughness covariance functions,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 149, 4239–4247. doi:10.1121/10.0005282 [PDF]
  9. Olson, D. R., and Jackson, D. (2020). “Scattering from layered seafloors: Comparisons between theory and integral equations,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 148, 2086–2095. doi:10.1121/10.0002164 [PDF]
  10. Olson, D. R., and Holland, C. W. (2020). “Fast computation of time-domain scattering by an inhomogeneous stratified seafloor,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147, 191–204. doi:10.1121/10.0000570 [PDF]
  11. Jackson, D., and Olson, D. R. (2020). “The small-slope approximation for layered, fluid seafloors,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147, 56–73. doi:10.1121/10.0000470 [PDF]
  12. Olson, D. R., Lyons, A. P., Abraham, D. A., and Sæbø, T. O. (2019). “Scattering statistics of rock outcrops: Model-data comparisons and Bayesian inference using mixture distributions,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145, 761–774. doi:10.1121/1.5089892 [PDF]
  13. Holland, C. W., Pinson, S., Smith, C. M., Hines, P. C., Olson, D. R., Dosso, S. E., and Dettmer, J. (2017). “Seabed Structure Inferences From TREX13 Reflection Measurements,” IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 42, 268–288. doi:10.1109/joe.2017.2658418 [PDF]
  14. Brown, D. C., Johnson, S. F., and Olson, D. R. (2017). “A point-based scattering model for the incoherent component of the scattered field,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 141, EL210–EL215. doi:10.1121/1.4976584 [PDF]
  15. Olson, D. R., Lyons, A. P., and Sæbø, T. O. (2016). “Measurements of high-frequency acoustic scattering from glacially eroded rock outcrops,” The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139, 1833–1847. doi:10.1121/1.4945589 [PDF]

Teaching (All at NPS)