Detection of Direct-path Arrivals for Multi-narrowband Sequences (3-30 kHz) in Shallow Water
Abstract
In an effort to measure underwater acoustic transmission loss over direct‐path lengths ranging from a few hundred meters to ten kilometers in shallow water, a sequence of 16 gated pure tones (3–30 kHz) was transmitted every 10 s from a lowed source and received at moored sonobuoys. The magnitude of multipath arrivals often exceeded that of direct‐path arrivals, resulting in variable detection performance of simple matched filtering techniques. More reliable signal recognition was obtained via iterative least square time constraints on the arrival times across all frequencies in a sequence, based on the known time intervals between transmitted tones. Signal detection improvement was obtained also by searching for the direct‐path arrival near the global maximum of the sum of the rectified correlograms of the received sequences. These methods allowed detection in environments characterized by multipath interferences, as well as low signal‐to‐noise ratio and fading, and in the presence of other unrelated sonar signals that cause large detection errors. It also improved the direct‐path signal strength estimation, and associated transmission loss computation, by bounding the time interval over which to compute the signals’ autocorrelations and estimate their power. These algorithms were tested on a limited data set recorded in the Southern California Offshore Range, confirming that frequencies below 6 kHz suffered less direct‐path transmission losses than higher frequencies (7–30 kHz).
Department
Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping
Publication Date
2004
Volume
728
Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Series
High Frequency Ocean Acoustics Conference
Pages
478-488
Conference Date
Mar 1 - Mar 5, 2004
Publisher Place
La Jolla, CA, USA
Rights
© 2004 American Institute of Physics
Publisher
AIP Publishing
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1063/1.1843043
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Recommended Citation
A. Zoksimovski and C. de Moustier, "Detection of Direct‐path arrivals for Multi‐Narrowband sequences (3–30 kHz) in shallow water," AIP Publishing, 2004, vol. 728, no. 1, pp. 478–488. [Online]. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1843043.