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In the ocean there are mainly two ways of characterizing the properties of the sediment structure. One technique is to observe the properties by physically collecting core samples by in-situ instrumentation. The other is to use remote techniques to estimate the acoustic properties of the sediment and from these observations invert the sediment thickness and sound velocity by interpreting the reflected...