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Professor Peter Gough

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Fields of Research

  • Acoustics: air and underwater, SONAR
  • Applied electromagnetics, antennas, RADAR
  • Signal processing, image processing

Researcher Summary

Research interests include:
-Sonar and underwater imaging by sound
-The acoustics of wood and wood products
-Synthetic aperture radar and sonar processing
-Image and Signal Processing (including adaptive filtering)
-Optical communications
-Optical engineering

Subject Area: Disciplines

Research Groups

Affiliations

Publications


  • Eccleston, K.W., Smith, K.J.I. and Gough, P.T. (2011) A compact class-F/class-C Doherty amplifier. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters 53(7): 1606-1610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mop.26035. (Journal Article)
  • Bainbridge-Smith, A., Bones, P.J., Butler, A., Green, R., Gough, P.T., Hann, C.E., Hayes, M.P., Millane, R.P., Mukundan, R., Watts, R. and Weddell, S.J. (2010) Computational Image Processing at the University of Canterbury. Queenstown, New Zealand: 25th International Conference of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, 8-9 Nov 2010. (Conference Contribution - Oral presentation)
  • Gough, P. and Hayes, M. (2010) Target and image statistics for a short-range Synthetic Aperture Sonar. Lerici, Italy: 2010 International Conference on Synthetic Aperture Sonar and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAS/SAR 2010), 13-14 Sep 2010. In Proceedings 181-186. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Smith, K.J.I., Eccleston, K.W., Gough, P.T. and Mann, S.I. (2009) A theoretical basis for Doherty amplifier bias control based on drain current characteristics. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters 51(9): 2152-2156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/mop.24565. (Journal Article)
  • Callow, H.J., Hayes, M.P. and Gough, P.T. (2009) Motion compensation improvements for widebeam multiple receiver SAS systems. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering 34(3): 262-268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JOE.2009.2014659. (Journal Article)
  • Callow, H.J., Hayes, M.P. and Gough, P.T. (2009) Motion-compensation improvement for widebeam, multiple-receiver SAS systems. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering 34(3): 262-268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JOE.2009.2014659. (Journal Article)
  • Chen, X.Q., Gaynor, P., King, R., Chase, J.G., Bones, P., Gough, P. and Duke, R. (2008) A Project-Based Mechatronics Program to Reinforce Mechatronic Thinking - A Restructuring Experience from University of Canterbury. Seoul, Korea: 17th International Federation of Automatic Control World Congress 2008, 6-11 Jul 2008. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Hayes, M.P. and Gough, P. (2008) A volumetric interferometric synthetic aperture sonar reconstruction algorithm. Paris, France: Acoustics'08 (incorporating ECUA and Euronoise), 29 Jun-4 Jul 2008. (Conference Contribution - Oral presentation)
  • Hayes, M.P. and Gough, P.T. (2008) Interferometric synthetic aperture processing: a comparison of sonar and radar. Paris, France: Acoustics'08 (incorporating ECUA and Euronoise), 29 Jun-4 Jul 2008. In Acoustics 08 Paris 6303-6308. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Gough, P.T. and Hayes, M. (2008) Ten key papers in synthetic aperture sonar. Paris, France: Acoustics'08 (incorporating ECUA and Euronoise), 29 Jun-4 Jul 2008. In Acoustics 08 Paris 5305-5308. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Gough, P. and Hayes, M. (2008) Towards an understanding of how a synthetic aperture sonar images buried targets. Paris, France: Acoustics'08 (incorporating ECUA and Euronoise), 29 Jun-4 Jul 2008. (Conference Contribution - Oral presentation)
  • Noonchester, M.A., Hayes, M.P. and Gough, P.T. (2007) Seafloor Roughness Measurement With Forward and Backscattering. Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand: 14th Electronics New Zealand Conference (ENZCon 2007), 12-13 Nov 2007. In Proceedings of the Fourteenth Electronics New Zealand Conference (ENZCon 2007) 159-164. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Barclay, P.J., Hayes, M.P. and Gough, P.T. (2006) Bathymetric results from a multi-frequency InSAS sea-trial. Singapore: Oceans'06 Asia-Pacific IEEE, 16-19 May 2006. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Hunter, A.J., Hayes, M.P. and Gough, P.T. (2006) Fast Fourier-domain modelling for a SAS simulator with application to time-variant targets, aspect-dependent occlusions, and Doppler effects. Singapore: Oceans'06 Asia-Pacific IEEE, 16-19 May 2006. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Hayes, M.P., Barclay, P.J. and Gough, P.T. (2006) Test results from a multiple-baseline interferometric synthetic aperture sonar. Carvoeiro, Portugal: 8th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ECUA 2006), 12-15 Jun 2006. In Proceedings of the Eight European Conference on Underwater Acoustics http://www.ecua2006.org/. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Gough, P.T., Hayes, M.P. and Noonchester, M.A. (2006) Towards the imaging of targets buried beneath the seafloor using a two band, interferometric synthetic aperture sonar. Carvoeiro, Portugal: 8th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (ECUA 2006), 12-15 Jun 2006. In Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics 2 835-840. http://www.ecua2006.org/. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Hunter, A.J., Hayes, M.P. and Gough, P.T. (2003) A comparison of fast factorised back-projection and wavenumber algorithms for SAS reconstruction. Paris, France: World Congress on Ultrasonics (WCU) 2003, 7-10 Sep 2003. In Proceedings of the WCU 2003 Conference 527-530. http://www.sfa.asso.fr/wcu2003/procs/website/index.html. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Callow, H.J., Hayes, M.P. and Gough, P.T. (2003) Autofocus of stripmap SAS data using the range variant SPGA algorithm. San Diego, CA, USA: OCEANS 2003 Marine Technology and Ocean Science Conference, 22-26 Sep 2003. In Proceedings of OCEANS 2003 2422-2426. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Fortune, S.A., Hayes, M.P. and Gough, P.T. (2003) Contrast optimisation of coherent images. San Diego, CA, USA: OCEANS 2003 Marine Technology and Ocean Science Conference, 22-26 Sep 2003. In Proceedings of OCEANS 2003 2622-2628. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Hunter, A.J., Hayes, M.P. and Gough, P.T. (2003) Simulation of multiple-receiver, broadband interferometric SAS imagery. San Diego, CA, USA: Oceans 2003 Marine Technology and Ocean Science Conference, 22-26 Sep 2003. In Proceedings of OCEANS 2003 5 2629-2634. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Fortune, S.A., Hayes, M.P. and Gough, P.T. (2003) Speckle reduction of synthetic aperture sonar images. Paris, France: Proceedings of the World Congress on Ultrasonics, CDROM, Sep 2003. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Hayes, M.P., Callow, H.J. and Gough, P.T. (2003) Stripmap phase gradient autofocus. San Diego, CA, USA: OCEANS 2003 Marine Technology and Ocean Science Conference, 22-26 Sep 2003. In Proceedings of OCEANS 2003 2414-2421. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Pilbrow, E.N., Gough, P.T. and Hayes, M.P. (2002) Dual transponder precision navigation system for synthetic aperture sonar. Dunedin, New Zealand: Proceedings of the Ninth Electronics New Zealand Conference, ENZCON2002, 14-15 Nov 2002. 151-156. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Pilbrow, E.N., Hayes, M.P. and Gough, P.T. (2002) Inertial navigation system for a synthetic aperture sonar. Dunedin, New Zealand: ENZCON2002, Proceedings of the Ninth New Zealand Electronics Conference, Nov 2002. 157-162. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Pilbrow, E.N., Gough, P.T. and Hayes, M.P. (2002) Long baseline precision navigation system for synthetic aperture sonar. Brisbane, Australia: 11th Australasian Remote Sensing an Photogrammetry Association Conference, 2-6 Sep 2002. In Proceedings of the 11th Australasian Remote Sensing an Photogrammetry Association Conference (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Barclay, P.J., Hayes, M.P. and Gough, P.T. (2002) Multi-channel data acquisition for a free-towed synthetic aperture sonar. Dunedin, New Zealand: Proceeedings of the Ninth Electronics New Zealand Conference, ENZCON2002, Nov 2002. 133-38. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Hunter, A.J., Gough, P.T. and Hayes, M.P. (2002) Using faceted environmental model to simulate shallow water SAS imagery. La Spezia, Italy: Impact of Littoral Environmental Variability on Acoustic Predictions and Sonar Performance, 16-20 Sep 2002. 481-488. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Hunter, A.J., Gough, P.T. and Hayes, M.P. (2002) Using faceted environmental model to simulate shallow water SAS imagery. In N.G. Pace and F.B. Jensen (Ed.), Impact of Littoral Environmental Variability on Acoustic Predictions and Sonar Performance: 481-488. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer. (Chapter in Book)
  • Gough, P., Callow, H. and Hayes, M. (2001) Autofocus of multi-band, shallow-water, synthetic aperture sonar imagery using shear-averaging. Sydney, Australia: International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium: Scanning the Present and Resolving the Future, 9-13 Jul 2001. In Proceedings of IGARSS 2001, Scanning the Present and Resolving the Future 4 1601-1603. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Miller, C.L., Taylor, D.P. and Gough, P.T. (2001) Estimation of Co-channel signals with linear complexity. IEEE Trans. on Comms. 49(11): 1997--2005. (Journal Article)
  • Callow, H.J., Gough,P. and Hayes,M. (2001) Noncoherent autofocus of single receiver broad-band synthetic aperture sonar imagery. Honolulu, Hawaii: IEEE OCEANS2001, November 2001. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Fortune,S. A., Gough, P.T. and Hayes, M. (2001) Statistical autofocus of bathymetric multiple-frequency synthetic aperture sonar images using image contrast optimisation. Honolulu, Hawaii: IEEE OCEANS2001, November, 2001. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Fortune, S.A., Gough,P. and Hayes, M.P. (2000) A statistical method for autofocus of synthetic aperture sonar. Hamilton, New Zealand: Proceedings of the Image and Vision Computing New Zealand Conference, November 2000. 56--61. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Gough, P.T., Hayes, M.P. and Wilkinson, D.R. (2000) An efficient image reconstruction algorithm for a multiple hydrophone array synthetic aperture sonar. Lyon, France: 5th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, 10-13 Jul 2000. In Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics 395-400. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Callow, H., Gough, P.T. and Hayes, M. (2000) Not quite 20,000 leagues under the sea; sonar autofocus in a shallow water reverberant environment. Hamilton, New Zealand: Proceedings of the Image Vision Computing New Zealand, November, 2000. 304--309. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Wilkinson, D.R., Gough, P.T. and Hayes, M.P. (2000) Point spread variant acoustic imaging techniques using synthetic aperture sonar. Hamilton, New Zealand: Proceedings of the Image Vision Computing New Zealand Conference, November, 2000. 310--315. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Millane, R. and Gough, P.T. (2000) Processing synthetic aperture sonar data from novel hydrophone arrays. San Diego, CA: Image Reconstruction from Incomplete Data, Proc. SPIE, Vol. 4123, 2000. 115--122. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Gough, P.T., Callow, H.J. and Hayes, M.P. (2000) Strip-map path correction using phase matching autofocus. Lyon, France: 5th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, 10-13 Jul 2000. In Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics 413-418. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Gough, P.T. and Beukman, C.P. (2000) Turning ideas into profits: getting the mix of universities, science parks and industry right. Shenyang, People' Republic of China: Proceedings of the 4th Annual East Asian Science Parks Conference, Sept 2000. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Gough, P.T. and Hayes, M.P. (1999) A low-cost, light-weight, synthetic aperture sonar. Panama City, USA: Invited Paper for the Technical Cooperation Program, Maritime Systems Group, Panel TP-13., March, 1999. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Hayes, M. and Gough, P.T. (1999) Imaging with a multiple-hydrophone synthetic aperture sonar. Christchurch, New Zealand: Proceedings of the Image & Vision Computing NZ Conference, August, 1999. 163--168. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Gough, P.T. and Hawkins, D.W. (1998) A short history of synthetic aperture sonar. Seattle, USA: Proceedings of the IEEE Int. Geoscience and Remote Sens. Symp., Paper BB1002. (Invited paper), July, 1998. 5pp. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Gough, P.T. and Lane, R.G. (1998) Autofocussing SAR and SAS images using a conjugate-gradient search algorithm. Seattle, USA: Proceedings of the IEEE Int. Geoscience and Remote Sens. Symp., Paper BB10.02, July, 1998. 202--204. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Gough, P.T. and Lane, R. (1998) Global autofocussing techniques for acoustic imaging. In J. Acoust. Soc. Am 103(5) 2859. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Hunt, B.R., Overman, T.L. and Gough, P.T. (1998) Image reconstruction from pairs of Fourier-transform magnitude. Optics Lett 23(14): 1123--1125. (Journal Article)
  • Hawkins, D.W. and Gough, P.T. (1997) Efficient SAS image reconstruction algorithms. May 1997. In J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 101(5, Part 2) 3120. (Conference Contribution - Other)
  • Gough, P.T. and Hawkins, D.W. (1997) Imaging algorithms for a synthetic aperture sonar: minimising the effects of aperture errors and aperture undersampling. IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering 22(1): 27--39. (Journal Article)
  • Blaikie, R.J., Taylor, D.P. and Gough, P.T. (1997) Multilevel differential polarisation shift keying. IEEE Transactions on Communications 45(1): 95-103. (Journal Article)