[3] The first practical application of the chirplet transform was in water-human-computer interaction (WaterHCI) for marine safety, to assist vessels in navigating through ice-infested waters, using marine radar to detect growlers (small iceberg fragments too small to be visible on conventional radar, yet large enough to damage a vessel).
[4][5] Other applications of the chirplet transform in WaterHCI include the SWIM (Sequential Wave Imprinting Machine).
[6][7] More recently other practical applications have been developed, including image processing (e.g. where there is periodic structure imaged through projective geometry),[6][8] as well as to excise chirp-like interference in spread spectrum communications,[9] in EEG processing,[10] and Chirplet Time Domain Reflectometry.
Florian Bossmann, Jianwei Ma, Asymmetric chirplet transform—Part 2: phase, frequency, and chirp rate, Geophysics, 2016, 81 (6), V425-V439.
Florian Bossmann, Jianwei Ma, Asymmetric chirplet transform for sparse representation of seismic data, Geophysics, 2015, 80 (6), WD89-WD100.