Prof. Nicholas C Makris

Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering
Director, Laboratory for Undersea Remote Sensing

Primary DLC

Department of Mechanical Engineering

MIT Room: 5-212

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Remotely Sensing the Marine Environment with Underwater Sound
Statistical Ocean-Acoustic Measurements
Marine Parameter Estimates
Applied Ocean Science and Engineering
Acoustical Oceanography
Physics-Based Inversion for Oceanographic and Geophysical Parameters
Passive and Active Detection and Estimation
Reverberation
Ambient Noise
Matched Field Processing
Acoustic Imaging
Whale Tracking and Vocalization Analysis
Statistical Optics
Pattern Recognition
Robot Sensing and Vision
Advanced Warning for Natural Disasters
Hurricanes

Recent Work