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The spectral structure of oceanic incoherent Doppler sonar data is analyzed with Fourier and two finite-parameter modeling methods (Spectral Moment Estimation (SME) and AutoRegressive (AR)). Fourier spectral analysis, applied to long-range segments of echo return data, validates a theoretical point scattering model. It is demonstrated that Fourier spectral techniques, applied to data from incoherent sonar systems, cannot be used to probe oceanic spectral and velocity fields on the scales that frequently are important in oceanographic applications. The finite-parameter methods model the spectral structure on closely spaced range intervals. The SME method calculates the first moment of the Doppler spectrum at each range interval and the AR method provides spectral estimates at these same intervals. Trade-offs in estimating scatterer radial velocity using the various algorithms are considered. It is shown that a frequency-integrated AR technique has velocity estimation performance comparable to the SME method. In addition, the AR technique reveals that several regions of data possess asymmetric spectral structure. The implications of this spectral structure for oceanic velocity estimates are discussed. 相似文献
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Detection of buried targets using a synthetic aperture sonar 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Piper J.E. Commander K.W. Thorsos E.I. Williams K.L. 《Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Journal of》2002,27(3):495-504
This paper presents observations of buried target detections made using a 20-kHz synthetic aperture sonar. At grazing angles below the critical angle, surprisingly high signal-to-noise detections were made of cylindrical targets buried at depths of 15 and 50 cm. During a separate set of measurements, buried spheres were clearly seen at steep grazing angles, but were generally not seen below the critical angle. Since scattering from wave-generated sand ripples may contribute to detections at grazing angles below critical angle, the information available on the ripple fields is discussed and used in acoustic backscatter simulations for the buried spheres. Lack of information on the ripple height precludes a definitive explanation for the absence of buried sphere detections at subcritical grazing angles. 相似文献
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Two qualitative results concerning statistical sonar signal processing and acoustic field matching are obtained. First, normal-mode field predictions are integrated with statistical signature analysis by constructing a boundary-value problem in the acoustic waveguide. From this construction it is found that the normal-mode filter is the unique acoustic preprocessor which does not confound deterministic waveguide correlation structure with stochastic source covariance structure. Second, the origin of deterministic, Gaussian, and non-Gaussian source signatures is investigated by associating physical parameters with the classical Lindeberg central limit conditions. From construction it is found that there are important objects that are not adequately represented either by infinitesimal points or by infinite surfaces. If receiver resolution is inadequate to resolve source complexity, these objects will exhibit a non-Gaussian acoustic signature via an entirely linear progression from internal excitation, to source radiation, through waveguide propagation, and finally to reception 相似文献
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A problem of interest to underwater acousticians is understanding the relationship between ocean-bottom characteristics and acoustic backscattering statistics. This experimental work focused on examining surface roughness characteristics that cause backscattering strength statistics to deviate from the Rayleigh distribution. Several different scattering surfaces with known height distributions were designed for this study. The surfaces were modeled using a technique that allowed for different height-distribution functions and correlation lengths to be prescribed. Isotropic and anisotropic surfaces were fabricated having both Gaussian and non-Gaussian surface-height distributions. Many independent backscattering measurements were made for different aspects of each surface using a computer-controlled transducer-positioning system. Acoustic backscattering statistics were non-Rayleigh for the anisotropic surfaces when combining measurements from different aspects. Mean scattering strength was found to be dependent on both the surface-height distribution and correlation length. In addition, backscattering strength showed a dependence on the surface-height power distribution. 相似文献
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An operational passive sonar is required to detect signals from sources, which are subject to spatial and temporal coherence losses via modifications by the ocean environment. Furthermore, these signals are to be detected in the presence of frequency-dependent correlated noise fields. For a system which employs splitbeam cross-correlation processing, the spatial and spectral properties of the signal and noise are of significant import. Therefore, the exact probability density and cumulative distribution functions of the N-sampled correlator outputs of a splitbeam broadband passive sonar are derived for the case of Gaussian inputs which are described by arbitrary cross-spectral density matrices. The validity of approximating the exact probability density function (pdf) as a Gaussian distribution is investigated. The effect of signal coherence loss and noise correlation on the detection performance is considered and the associated processing loss is expressed as a degradation factor within the detection threshold equation 相似文献
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多波束反向散射强度数据应用广泛,但由于受到角度响应的影响,导致生成的多波束声呐图像质量偏低,且现有角度响应改正方法在复杂海底底质环境下适应性较差。为此本文对散射强度进行分析,给出了两种多波束反向散射强度数据归一化方法,分别为基于高斯拟合以及角度响应的散射强度改正方法,前者主要是基于散射强度的变化规律进行改正,而后者则是基于声波的散射机理进行改正。实验结果表明两种方法较传统改正方法精度均有约30%的提升,并且角度响应方法较高斯拟合方法改正精度更高,但计算效率有所下降。以上实验验证了两种方法的有效性,实现了散射强度数据的归一化,提升了多波束声呐图像的质量。 相似文献
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《Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Journal of》2009,34(4):485-494
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In this paper, a new paradigm for "through-the-sensor" remote sensing of the seafloor is presented. The methodology has been tailored for use with the AN/SQS-53C sonar found on many U.S. Navy destroyers. Sonar beamformer outputs are processed, and a point georeferenced database of signal attributes is constructed. Corresponding sonar settings and ship navigation information are also included for each database point. Database entries are then fused with environmental characteristics, such as bathymetry and sound speed information. These data may be derived from historical databases, on-site measurements, or a combination of the two. The database is then completed by ambiguity resolution and matching of modeled eigenray paths with database entries in order to associate signal attributes with specific propagation paths. Model inputs are derived from a customized version of the Comprehensive Acoustic System Simulation/Gaussian Ray Bundle eigenray propagation model (CASS/GRAB), which performs propagation estimates over incremental range/depth steps. Illustrations of how the point database may be filtered/constrained, gridded, and displayed are presented. An example of how bottom scattering strength can be derived from the database is presented, followed by an example of a technique for monostatic bottom loss estimation. Results indicate that the approach presented in this paper represents a viable method for conducting "through-the-sensor" measurements of seafloor scattering properties. 相似文献
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Utilizing High-Frequency Acoustic Backscatter to Estimate Bottom Sand Ripple Parameters 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
《Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Journal of》2009,34(4):431-443
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Kyoung Kim Powers E. Ritz C. Miksad R. Fischer F. 《Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Journal of》1987,12(4):568-575
A quadratic system model based on Volterra series representation is utilized to model the nonlinear response of moored vessels subjected to random seas. The key idea is to represent the relationship between the incident sea wave (input) and corresponding sway response of the moored vessel (output) with a parallel combination of linear and quadratic transfer functions, and to estimate them by processing actual input and output data. Compared to previous approaches, we take the important step of removing the restriction that the random input must possess Gaussian statistics. The feasibility and validity of the approach is demonstrated by analyzing experimental data taken in model basin tests. We also describe some of the deleterious consequences of assuming Gaussian sea-wave excitation when in fact the excitation is non-Gaussian. 相似文献
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Empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs) are typically derived from direct measurements of the sound speed profile (SSP) and they are orthogonal in regard to the statistics of the SSP uncertainty. Viewed from the output end of a particular sonar system, however, the effect of an error in one EOF is usually coupled with the effect of the error in another due to the strongly nonlinear relation between the SSP parameters and the system response. In this paper, a new set of basis functions, orthogonal in regard to sonar performance measure, is developed to characterize SSP perturbations. The performance measure used is the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) for SSP expansion coefficients derived from a full-field random Gaussian signal model; a closed-form, analytical solution is obtained for both the range-independent and adiabatically range-dependent environments. The derived functions make the CRB matrix diagonal, decoupling the errors in the estimation of the expansion coefficients. Compared to the EOFs, the new set of basis functions depends on both the statistics of the sound speed uncertainty and the sound waveguide propagation property; it incorporates the measurement noise as well. The development makes possible the investigation of the relative significance of the individual basis functions in system response; it also provides a novel framework for optimum acoustic parameterization in adaptive rapid environmental assessment. 相似文献
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Backscattering from bioturbated sediments at very high frequency 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Recent backscattering measurements made in the Gulf of La Spezia, Italy, using a sonar operating at 140 kHz combined with thorough characterization of seabed interface and volume properties illustrate the importance of seabed volume scattering. Three-dimensional fluctuation statistics of density variability and vertical density gradients, both of which are attributed to the level of bioturbation (e.g., sea shell fragments, burrows, pockets of water) have been quantified using X-Ray computed tomography. Two-dimensional interface roughness spectra have also been determined using a digital stereo photogrammetry system. The combined ground truth has allowed a backscattering model to be fully constrained. Measured backscattering strength versus angle is compared to a model that includes the effects of varying density and sound speed. Data-model comparisons show that scattering from the volume of strongly inhomogeneous sediments can often be a primary contributor to seafloor scattering away from normal incidence. 相似文献
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Underwater target tracking relies on a model relating the target states to time-delay and bearing measurements. This furnishes linearized measurement models. Problems arise due to fitting models using the least-squares procedure, whose success may depend on the assumption that the data noise distribution is Gaussian. For many cases of non-Gaussian errors, performance of the least-squares estimators is far from optimal. Robust regression procedures have been proposed to improve the performance of the least-squares procedures for non-Gaussian errors, and to enhance their performance for the Gaussian errors. Filters for time-delay estimation based on the Fair and Andrews's weighting functions of the iteratively reweighted least-squares method are proposed. Computational results are given to illustrate and compare the performances of the two filters as well as that due to ordinary least-squares filters 相似文献
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The optimal detection of signals requires detailed knowledge of the noise statistics. In many applications, the assumption of Gaussian noise allows the use of the linear correlator (LC), which is known to be optimal in these circumstances. However, the performance of the LC is poor in warm shallow waters where snapping shrimp noise dominates in the range 2-300 kHz. Since snapping shrimp noise consists of a large number of individual transients, its statistics are highly non-Gaussian. We show that the noise statistics can be described accurately by the symmetric alpha-stable family of probability distributions. Maximum-likelihood (ML) and locally optimal detectors based on the detailed knowledge of the noise probability distribution are shown to demonstrate enhanced performance. We also establish that the sign correlator, which is a nonparametric detector, performs better than the LC in snapping shrimp noise. Although the performance of the sign correlator is slightly inferior to that of the ML detector, it is very simple to implement and does not require detailed knowledge of the noise statistics. This makes it an attractive compromise between the simple LC and the complex ML detector 相似文献
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Statistical characterization of active sonar reverberation using extreme value theory 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The statistics of reverberation in active sonar are characterized by non-Rayleigh distributed amplitudes in the normalized matched filter output. Unaccounted for, this property can lead to high false-alarm rates in fixed-threshold detectors. A new approach to modeling threshold-crossing statistics based on extreme value theory is proposed, which uses the generalized Pareto distribution as the unique asymptotic model of the tail distribution, valid at large thresholds. Methods of parameter estimation are discussed and applied to active sonar reverberation collected on a hull-mounted sonar system. The statistics of reverberation in active sonar are found to generally have a power-law behavior in the tails with a shape parameter that is persistent in time and bandwidth dependent. The threshold needed for accurate parameter estimation is generally found to be well below that of typical fixed-threshold detectors. 相似文献
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Active sonar systems operating in shallow-water environments are often faced with high numbers of false alarms, generically referred to as clutter, arising from among other sources bottom scattering that results in heavy tails in the matched filter envelope probability density function compared with the Rayleigh distribution. In this paper, the effect of multipath propagation on the envelope statistics (i.e., the disparity from the Rayleigh distribution) is modeled through the use of the -distribution where the shape and scale parameters are formed from the autocorrelation function of the transmit waveform, the multipath structure, and the strength and spatial density of the bottom scatterers. Use of the -distribution is justified by showing that it is the limiting distribution of the sum of independent but not identically distributed -distributed random variables, which is representative of multipath when the bottom produces -distributed backscatter. The shape parameter, which drives the clutter statistics, is seen to be inversely proportional to bandwidth at bandwidths low enough that the multipath is not resolved and again at bandwidths high enough that all of the paths are resolved. As has been previously reported by LePage [IEEE J. Ocean. Eng., vol. 29, no. 2, pp. 330-346, 2004], multipath is shown to make clutter statistics more Rayleigh-like, which in this analysis equates to an increase in the -distribution shape parameter. The model is used to evaluate the effect on clutter statistics of varying environmental characterizations and system configurations where it is seen that, for a constant sound-speed profile, increasing the vertical aperture of the sonar, the center frequency, or surface roughness can lead to less multipath and, therefore, a reduction in the -distribution shape parameter and an increase in the probability of false alarm. 相似文献
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To obtain the bistatic scattering function on the sandy ripple bottom, high-frequency bistatic sea-floor scattering measurements were made in the shallow waters off the east coast of Korea. A sand ripple field was present at the site, with wavelength generally in the 10-20-cm range. The mean ripple orientation relative to the direction of wave propagation was estimated to be roughly 20/spl deg/-30/spl deg/. Field experiments were made to measure forward (in-plane) and out-of-plane scattering from the ripple bottom. The measured scattering strengths were compared to the predictions of the APL-UW bistatic scattering model. Overall, forward-scattering strength measurements showed favorable comparison with the model predictions. The global scattering characteristics for the ripple bottom gave an augmented out-of-plane scattering. 相似文献
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A field experiment was carried out to examine the time variation of scattering from man-made objects placed near the water-sediment interface and within the sediment. The objects (spheres) were monitored for a period of about two months using a sonar system capable of measuring scattering levels, bottom bathymetry, and correlation of scattering over time. In addition, divers performed focalized biological treatments that were also monitored over extended periods. The results of these monitoring activities are presented and related to previous studies that used the same data sets for other purposes. One notable result is that the buried sphere becomes undetectable (by scattering level alone) within two days of deployment. The rapid changes in the first few days after the buried sphere is introduced are quantified relative to the rate of changes for undisturbed regions of the sediment 相似文献