BIOGRAPHY

Arthur B. Baggeroer

Personal Information

Office:

Room 5-204
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
(617) 253-4336

Education

Purdue University B.S.E.E. w/ Highest Distinction 1963
M.I.T. (NSF Fellow) S.M.& E.E. 1965
M.I.T. Sc.D. 1968 Doctoral thesis: "State Variables, Fredholm Theory and Optimal Communications"

Employment

• M.I.T. Depts.of Ocean and Electrical Engineering (1968-present)

  Assistant Professor, 1968-1973

  Associate Professor, 1973-1980

  Professor, 1980-present

  Director, M.I.T.-Woods Hole Joint Program in Oceanography and Oceanographic Engineering, 1983-1988

  Ford Professor of Engineering, 1991- present

  
  
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography, (1990) Green Scholar, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Science, while on sabbatical leave from MIT
  
  
• NATO SACLANT ASW Center, Italy (1977) Consultant for the Chief of Naval Research while on sabbatical leave from M.I.T.
  
  
• M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory (summers, 1966-1967) - satellite communication system design, data analysis for teleseismic events on LASA, (Large Aperture Seismic Array)
  
  
• The Mitre Corporation (summers, 1959-1965) - computer programming, electronic circuit design, radar system analysis
  
  

Memberships

• I.E.E.E.(Inst. of Electronic and Electrical Engineers), Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Group

  Technical Committee on Multidimensional Signal Processing (1981-1986)

  Information Theory Group

  Program Committee (1974)

  Best Paper Award Committee (1975)

  Communications Group

  Oceanic Engineering Group

  Associate Editor (1976 - present)

  Treasurer (1979 - 1982)

  Fellow (1988)

• Acoustical Society of America

  Chairman, Technical Committee on Underwater Acoustics (1986 - 1989)

  Medals and Awards Committee (1990 - present)

  Executive Council (elected) (1994 - present)

  Fellow (1986)

• A.G.U. (American Geophysical Union)
• Tau Beta Pi (engineering honorary)
• Eta Kappa Nu (electrical engineering honorary)
• Sigma Xi (academic honorary)
• National Academy of Engineering
• American Institute of Physics, Editorial Board, AIP Series in Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing

Consulting

• Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Navy Oceans Systems Center, San Diego, California
• M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, Massachusetts
• Raytheon Submarine Signal Systems, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
• AVCO Corporation, Wilmington, Massachusetts
• Schlumberger-Doll Research Center, Ridgefield, Connecticut
• Schlumberger Wireline Service, Houston, Texas
• Foster Miller, Inc., Waltham, Massachusetts
• SAIC, Mc Lean, Virginia
• ENDECO, Marion, Massachusetts
• ORI, Rockville, Maryland
• Atlantic Aerospace Electronics, Waltham, Massachusetts
• Lockheed-Sanders, Nashua, New Hampshire

Government Committees and Service

• Co-chief Scientist for United States - Russian 1994 Transarctic Propagation (TAP) Experiment
• Joint Oceanographic Instiutions Panel on the 1994
• Dual Use of the Iintegrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS)
• Naval Studies Board, National Research Council 1993
• Panel for Technical Review of Shallow Water Acoustic and Non-Acoustic R&D Programs
• Co-chief Scientist, R/V Cory Chouest, ONR 1992
• Special Research Program on Acoustic Reverberation
• Ocean Studies Board, National Research Council 1992
• Research Opportunities in Ocean Acoustics (Chairman)
• Scientific Committee on Ocean Research (SCOR) 1991 - present
• Working Group (96) on Acoustic Monitoring of Ocean Climate
• National Science Foundation Fellowship Panel 1990, 1993
• Ocean Studies Board, National Research Council 1990
• Panel on Facilities for Oceanographic Research
• Navel Studies Board, National Research Council 1990
• Opportunities in Underwater Acoustics
• Chief Scientist for Acoustics, ONR CEAREX Expt. 1988-1989
• ONR Board of Visitors, Arctic, Acoustics & Geophysics 1988- 1990
• Visiting Committee Member, 1988 Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Chief Scientist for ARAMP Experiment 1987
• MIZEX Executive Committee for Acoustics 1983 - 1987
• Chief Scientist for ONR Marginal Ice Zone 1983, 1984 Experiment (MIZEX)
• Polar Oceans Climate Panel, 1984 - 1988
• National Academy of Science
• National Research Council Panel on Navy Long 1981 - 1982 Range, Deep Ocean Technology
• Chief Scientist for ONR Fram II and Fram IV 1980, 1982 Ice Stations
• NSF/IDOE Workshop on Multichannel Systems 1973 in Oceanographic Institutes
• Town of Westwood, MA - Finance Committee 1976 - 1977
• Town of Westwood, MA - School Committee 1977 - 1989 (elected office)

  Chairman 1979 - 1980

  1982 - 1983

Awards and honors

1. National Science Foundation Fellow, 1963 - 1967
2. Cecil and Ida Green Scholar, Scripps Institution Oceanography, 1990
3. Chair, Ford Professor of Engineering, MIT, 1991 - present
4. IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, 1992 Distinguished Technical Achievement Award
5. National Academy of Engineering, elected 1995

Publications

Books

1. Baggeroer, A.B., State Variables and Communication Theory, M.I.T. Press, 1970.
2. Wagstaff, R. and Baggeroer, A., Eds., High Resolution Spatial Processing in Underwater Acoustics, NORDA Workshop Proceedings, NSTL, MI, 1983.
3. Baggeroer, A.B. and van Trees, H. Array Processing (in preparation)

Book Chapters

1. Baggeroer, A.B., "State Variable Methods," appendix to Detection, Estimation and Modulation Theory, Part II, by H.L. van Trees, John Wiley and Sons, New York, (1971), pp. 286-327.
2. Baggeroer, A.B., "Sonar Signal Processing," in Applications of Digital Signal Processing, edited by A. V. Oppenheim, Prentice-Hall, 1978, pp. 331-437.
3. Baggeroer, A.B. and Kuperman, W.A., "Matched Field Processing in Ocean Acoustics," in Acoustic Signal Processing for Ocean Exploration,, edited by J.M.F. Moura and I.M.G. Loutrie, Kluwer Publishing, 1993

Refereed Articles

1. Baggeroer, A.B., "A State Variable Approach to the Solution of Fredholm Integral Equations," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT-15, No. 5, (Sept., 1969).
2. Baggeroer, A.B., "Tapped Delay Line Models for Dereverberation of Deep Water Multiples," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience Electronics, Vol. GE-6, No. 2, (April, 1974).
3. Baggeroer, A.B., "Confidence Intervals for Autoregressive (MEM) Spectral Estimates," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT-22, No. 5, (Sept. 1976); also in Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Signal Processing and Underwater Acoustics, pp. 617-630, Reidell Book Co., Holland (1977); selected reprint in Modern Spectral Estimation, IEEE Press, 1979.
4. Theriault, K.B. and Baggeroer, A.B., "Accuracy Bounds for Structure Estimation in Layered Media," IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol COE-4, No. 1 (January 1979); also in Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Signal Processing and Underwater Acoustics, pp. 279-295, Reidell Book Co., Holland (1977).
5. Moura, J.M.F. and Baggeroer, A.B., "Passive System Theory with Narrowband and Linear Constraints, Part I - Spatial Diversity," IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. COE-3, No. 1, (January, 1976).
6. Baggeroer, A.B. and Dyer, I., "The Fram II Program in the Eastern Arctic," EOS, Vol. 61, No. 4, (January 20, 1980).
7. Baggeroer, A.B. and Falconer, R., "Array Refraction Profiles and Crustal Models of the Canada Basin," Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 87, No. B7, (July, 1982).Duckworth, G.L., Baggeroer, A.B. and Jackson, H.R., "Crustal Structure Measurements Near Fram II in the Pole Abyssal Plain," Tectonophysics, Vol 89 (1982).
8. Baggeroer, A.B. and Dyer, I., "Fram II in the Eastern Arctic," EOS, Vol. 63, No. 14, (April 6, 1982).
9. Dyer, I., Baggeroer, A.B., Williams, R., and Zittel, J., "Long Range, Low Frequency Backscattering in the Arctic Ocean Basin," Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 87, No. C12, (Nov.1982).
   
10. Lawver, L. and Baggeroer,A.B., "A Note on the Age of the Canada Basin," Journal of the Alaska Geological Society, Proceedings of Symposium on the Origin of the Arctic Ocean (Canada Basin), Vol. 2, pp. 57-66 (1983).
    
11. Baggeroer, A.B. and Duckworth, G.L., "Seismic Exploration in the Arctic Ocean," Arctic Technology and Policy, Hemisphere Publishing (1984), pp 159-176; also selected for reprint in Geophysics: The Leading Edge of Exploration, Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Oct. 1983, 22-27.
    
12. Baggeroer, A., "Acoustic Telemetry - An overview," IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, OE-9(4), pp. 229 - 235, October. 1984.
    
13. Catipovic, J., Baggeroer, A.B., von der Heydt, K. and Koelsch, D., "DATS - A Digital Acoustic Telemetry System," IEEE Journal on Oceanic Engineering, pp. 242 - 252, October. 1984.
    
14. Duckworth, G.L. and Baggeroer, A.B., "Inversion of Refraction Data from the Fram and Nansen Basins of the Arctic Ocean," Tectonophysics, 114, 55-102, 1985..
    
15. Nowell, A., Hollister, C.D. and Baggeroer, A.B., "Contemplating Tomorrow's Oceanographers," Sea Technology, Oct. 1985.
    
16. Hsu, K. and Baggeroer, A.B., "Application of the Maximum Likelihood Method (MLM) for Sonic Velocity Logging," Geophysics, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp 780-787, March 1986.
    
17. Baggeroer, A.B., H.A. Kuperman, and H. Schmidt, "Performance Bounds on Array Processing for Source Localizaiton Using Full Wave Modeling of Signal and Noise Fields," Proc. First IMACS Symposium on Computational Acoustics, July 1987.
    
18. Moura, J.M.F. and A.B. Baggeroer, "Phase Unwrapping of Signals Propagated under the Arctic Ice Cover: A Statistical Approach," IEEE Acoust. Speech Sig. Proc., Vol. 36(5), pps 617-629, June 1988.
    
19. Dahl, P.H., A.B. Baggeroer, and P.N. Mikhalevsky, "Measurement of the Temporal Fluctuations of cw Tones Propagated in the MIZ", J. Acous. Soc. Am., Vol. 83(6), pps. 2175-2179, June 1988.
    
20. Dyer, I., P.H. Dahl, A.B. Baggeroer, and P.N. Mikhalevsky, "Ocean Dynamics and Acoustic Fluctuations in the Marginal Ice Zone," Science, 435-436, April 1987.
    
21. Baggeroer, A.B., W.Kuperman, and H. Schmidt, "Matched field processing source localization in correlated noise as an optimum parameter estimation problem," J. Acous. Soc. Am., Vol. 83(2), pps. 571-589, February 1988
    
22. Catipovic, J. and Baggeroer, A.B., "Analysis of high frequency transmission propagated in the marginal ice zone," J. Acoust. Soc. of Am., Vol. 88(1), 185-190, January 1990
    
23. Song, H.C. and Baggeroer, A.B., "Resolution of modal doppler shifts in a dispersive oceanic waveguide," J. Acoust. Soc. of Am., Vol. 88(1), 268-282, January 1990
    
24. Schmidt, H., Baggeroer, A.B., Kuperman, W.A., and Scheer, E.K., "Robust beamforming for matched field processing under realistic environmental conditions," J. Acoust. Soc. of Am., Vol. 88(4), pps. 1851-1862, October 1990
    
25. Catipovic, J. and Baggeroer, A.B., "Performance of sequential decoding of convolutional codes over fully fading ocean acoustic channels," IEEE J. of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 15(1), pps. 1-8, January 1990
    
26. Fricke, J. R. and Baggeroer, A.B., "Slowness-time analysis of modes in a submerged steel plate," J. Acoust. Soc. of Am, Vol. 92(6), pp. 3228 - 3238, December 1992
    
27. Baggeroer, A.B. and Munk, W., "The Heard Island Feasibility Experiment," Physics Today, pp. 22-30, September 1992
    
28. Baggeroer, A.B., Kuperman, W.A. and Mikhalevsky, P.N., "An overview of matched field methods in ocean acoustics," IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, pp. 401 - 424, October 1993 (Invited paper)
    
29. Baggeroer, A.B., Lashkari, K., Chiu, Mikhalevsky, P.N.,C-S, Miller, J.H. and vonder Heydt, K., "Vertical array reception of the Heard Island transmissions," J. Acoust. Soc. of Am., 96(2), pp. 2395 - 2413, (October 1995)
    
30. Munk, W.H., Spindel, R.C., Baggeroer, A.B., and Birdsall, T.G., "An overview of the Heard Island Feasibility Experiment," J. Acoust. Soc. of Am.,
31. 96(2), pp. 2330-2332, (October 1994)
    
32. Munk, W.H. and Baggeroer, A.B., "The Heard Island papers: A contribution to global acoustics," J. Acoust. Soc. of Am., 96(2), pp. 2327 - 2329, (October 1994)
    
33. vonder Heydt, K. and Baggeroer, A. B., "Fifteen years of Arctic acoustics and ice camps: Cold region technology advances in nine experiments to the ice cap," Oceanus, 37(2), pps. 1-8, Fall 1994
    
34. Mikhalevsky, P. N., Baggeroer, A. B., Gavrilov, A. and Slavinsky, M., "Experiment tests use of acoustics to monitor temperature and ice in the Arctic Ocean," EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union, 76(27), pp. 265 - 268, (July 4, 1995)
    

Conference Proceedings

1. Baggeroer, A.B., "Maximum A Posteriori Interval Estimation," 1966 WESCON Proceedings, IEEE Press.
   
2. Baggeroer, A.B., "Optimum Signal Design via State Variables," 1968 WESCON Proceedings, IEEE Press.
3. Baggeroer, A.B., "The Barankin Bound for Estimating Parameters Imbedded in the Covariance of a Gaussian Random Process," 1977 M. J. Kelley Communication Conference Proceedings.
4. Theriault, K.B. and Baggeroer, A.B., "Accuracy Bounds for High Resolution Velocity/Depth Spectra Estimation," Proceedings of the 1974 International Information Theory Symposium.
5. Pusey, L.C. and Baggeroer, A.B., "The Stationarity Equation and Its Application to Spectral Estimation and Wave Propagation," Proceedings of the 1974 International Information Theory Symposium.
6. Moura, J.M.F., Baggeroer, A.B. and van Trees, H.L., "Tracking of a Narrowband Moving Source," 1973 Symposium on Nonlinear Estimation Theory.
7. Baggeroer, A.B., "High Resolution Velocity/Depth Spectra Estimation for Seismic Profiling," Oceans' 74 Proceedings, pp. 201-204.
   
8. Baggeroer, A.B., "Recent Advances in Spectral Analysis and Directiona Wave Spectra Estimation and Their Application to Offshore Structures," Proceedings of the Behavior of Offshore Structures (BOSS) Symposium, pp. 457-476, (August, 1979).
   
9. Baggeroer, A.B., "Arrays and Array Processors - Future Real Time Applications to Oceanography and Sonar," Proceedings of the Conference on Real-Time General Purpose, High Speed Signal Processing for Underwater Research, NATO SACLANT Ctr, (Sept. 1979).
   
10. Baggeroer, A.B., "Velocity Spectral Estimates from the Arrays of the ROSE Program," Proceedings of the Bottom Interaction Conference, Plenum Press, (Oct. 1980).
    
11. Baggeroer, A.B., "A Survey of Acoustic Telemetry," Proceedings of Oceans' 81, pp. 48-54, IEEE Press (Sept. 1981).
    
12. Baggeroer, A.B., Koelsch, D., von der Heydt, K. and Catipovic, J., "DATS - A Digital Acoustic Telemetry System for Underwater Communications," Proceedings of Oceans' 81, pp. 55-61, IEEE Press (Sept. 1981).
    
13. Baggeroer, A.B. and Duckworth, G.L., "Seismic Structure Modeling in the Arctic Ocean," Proceedings of Oceans' 82, pp. 179-186, IEEE Press (Sept. 1982).
    
14. Baggeroer, A.B., "Confidence intervals for spectral estimates using tilted densities," Proc. of the IEEE 1983 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), (May 1983)
    
15. Duckworth, G.L. and Baggeroer, A.B., "Estimation of Ice Surface Scattering and Acoustic Attenuation in Arctic Sediments from Long-Range Propagation Data," Proc. of the SACLANT Seismo-Acoustic Conference, (June 1985)
    
16. Baggeroer, A.B. and Dyer, I., "Long Range, Low Frequency Acoustic Backscattering: A Survey," Ocean Seismo-Acoustics, Plenum Press, NY, (1985)
    
17. von der Heydt, K., G.L. Duckworth and A.B. Baggeroer, "Acoustic Array Sensor Tracking System," Proceedings Oceans 85, (1985)
    
18. Baggeroer, A.B., F. R. Di Napoli, and T.O. Manly, "The Science Program of the FRAM Experiments in the Eastern Arctic Ocean," Proceedings Oceans 85 (1985)
    
19. Baggeroer, A.B., Duckworth, G.L., Ellefsen, K., and Scheer, E.K.,"The Relative Amplitudes of Primary and Multiple Signals Refracted in Ocean Crust," Ocean Seismo-Acoustics, Plenum Press, NY, (1986)
    
20. Schmidt, H., Baggeroer, A.B., Kuperman, W.A. and Scheer, E.K., "Robust beamforming for matched field processing under realistic environmental conditions," Proc. of the 1988 Nato Advanced Study Institute on Signal Processing and Underwater Acoustics, pp. 427 - 432, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1989)
    
21. Baggeroer, A.B., "A 'True' Maximum Likelihood Method for Estimating Frequency Wavenumber Spectra," Proceeding of the 1991 British Institute of Acoustics Conference, vol 13, Pt. 2, pp. 217 - 224, (1991)
    
22. Baggeroer, A.B. and Orcutt, J.A., "An overview of the Reconaissance Cruise for the ONR ARSRP (Acoustic Reverberation Special Research Program), NATO Conference on Acoustic Reverberation, La Spezia, Italy, Plenum Press, (1992)
    
23. Baggeroer, A.B. and Schmidt, H., "Parameter estimation bounds and the accuracy of full field inversions," NATO Conference on Full Field Inversion Methods in Ocean and Seismic Acoustics, La Spezia, Italy (Plenum Press, (1994)
    
24. Schmidt, H. and Baggeroer, A.B., "Physics imposed resolution and robustness in seismo-acoustic inversions," "Parameter estimation bounds and the accuracy of full field inversions," NATO Conference on Full Field Inversion Methods in Ocean and Seismic Acoustics, La Spezia, Italy (Plenum Press, (1994)
    
25. Baggeroer, A. B. and Schmidt, H., "Cramer-Rao bounds for matched field and ocean acoustic tomography," Proc. of the 1995 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Press
    
26. Mikahevsky, P.N., Baggeroer, A.B., Gavrilov, A. and Slavinsky, M., "Transarctic Acoustic Propagation (TAP) Feasibility Experiment, "Proceedings of the 15th International Congress on Acoustics, Vol. I, Trondheim, Norway
    
27. Mikhalevsky, P.N., Muench, R. and Baggeroer, A.B., "Acoustic Thermometry of Arctic Ocean Climate," Proceedings of IEEE Oceans 93, Vol. 1 Victoria, British Columbia, Ocotober 1993
    
28. Mikhalevsky, P.N., Keenan, R. and Baggeroerm A.B., "Measured travel times and model comparisons,'' 3rd European Conference on Underwater ACoustics, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 24-26, 1996