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2016

Portland State University

Underwater acoustics

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Frequency Based Noise Coherence-Function Extension And Application To Passive Bottom-Loss Estimation, Lanfranco Muzi, Martin Siderius, Peter L. Nielsen Sep 2016

Frequency Based Noise Coherence-Function Extension And Application To Passive Bottom-Loss Estimation, Lanfranco Muzi, Martin Siderius, Peter L. Nielsen

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Accurate modeling of acoustic propagation in the ocean waveguide is important to SONAR-performance prediction. Particularly in shallow waters, a crucial contribution to the total transmission loss is the bottom refection loss, which can be estimated passively by beamforming the natural surface-noise acoustic field recorded by a vertical line array of hydrophones. However, the performance in this task of arrays below 2 m of length is problematic for frequencies below 10 kHz" role="presentation" style="display: inline; line-height: normal; word-spacing: normal; word-wrap: normal; white-space: nowrap; float: none; direction: ltr; max-width: none; max-height: none; min-width: 0px; min-height: 0px; border: 0px; padding: 0px 2px 0px …


Exploitation Of Frequency Information In Continuous Active Sonar, Lisa Zurk, Daniel Rouseff, Scott Schecklman Sep 2016

Exploitation Of Frequency Information In Continuous Active Sonar, Lisa Zurk, Daniel Rouseff, Scott Schecklman

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

In pulsed active sonar, short duration coded waveforms insonify the area of interest. The low duty cycle limits detection opportunities and decreases average energy. A recent concept is continuous active sonar (CAS), which has continuous source transmission over a broad frequency band. The low duty cycle limits detection opportunities and decreases average energy. A recent concept is continuous active sonar (CAS), which has continuous source transmission over a broad frequency band. Previous work by the authors has investigated the utility of extracting the propagation-induced frequency structure in pulsed sonar. The broadband, continuous CAS waveforms particularly lend themselves to this approach. …


Head Wave Correlations In Ambient Noise, John Thomas Gebbie, Martin Siderius Jan 2016

Head Wave Correlations In Ambient Noise, John Thomas Gebbie, Martin Siderius

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Ambient ocean noise is processed with a vertical line array to reveal coherent time-separated arrivals suggesting the presence of head wave multipath propagation. Head waves, which are critically propagating water waves created by seabed waves traveling parallel to the water-sediment interface, can propagate faster than water-only waves. Such eigenrays are much weaker than water-only eigenrays, and are often completely overshadowed by them. Surface-generated noise is different whereby it amplifies the coherence between head waves and critically propagating water-only waves, which is measured by cross-correlating critically steered beams. This phenomenon is demonstrated both experimentally and with a full wave simulation.