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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
The author would like to acknowledge the assistance of 
Professor Arthur J. McNair, Dr. Edward M. Mikhail, and 
Mr. Richard Ealum in the preparation of this report. 
The major portion of the work presented in this paper 
was performed by the author in the preparation of his doctoral 
dissertation at Cornell University. Further evaluation of the 
method as applied to practical problems using real data is 
being sponsored by the U. S. Army Engineers, GIMRABA. Nothing 
contained herein is to be construed as necessarily coinciding 
with U. S. Army Doctrine.