Robert P. Goddard

Senior Physicist
Simulation and Signal Processing Department
Applied Physics Laboratory
University of Washington

Dr. Goddard is the primary author of the Sonar Simulation Toolset (SST) software for computer simulation of sound in the sea. He also developed SST's prececessor REVGEN, Recently he served as both a developer and evaluator in a pilot project looking for efficient ways to re-host Navy real-time sonar signal processing applications on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and system software. He helped develop DCLASP, a specialized high-performance simulator for passive sonars, and TARSUS, a data acquisition system for ocean acoustic surveys. He trained and advised TARSUS users at sea.

His primary areas of expertise are

• Mathematical modeling and simulation of physical processes
• Object-oriented design of scientific computer software
• Applied mathematics and numerical methods
• Underwater acoustics
• Signal processing

Dr. Goddard joined the Applied Physics Laboratory in 1980.

education

• B. S. Physics 1969, California Institute of Technology
• Ph. D. Physics 1978, University of Wisconsin, Madison

address

Applied Physics Laboratory
1013 NE 40th St.
Seattle WA 98105-6698

phone

(206) 543-1267

fax

(206) 543-6785

e-mail

rpg@apl.washington.edu