Published In

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2014

Subjects

Noise, Noise generators (Electronics), Sound, Oscillators -- Electric

Abstract

A technique is presented for passively localizing multiple noise-producing targets by cross-correlating the elevation beams of a compact volumetric array on separate bearings. A target’s multipath structure inherently contains information about its range; however, unknown, random noise waveforms make time separation of individual arrivals difficult. Ocean ambient noise has previously been used to measure multipath delays to the seabed by cross-correlating the beams of a vertical line array [Siderius, Song, Gerstoft, Hodgkiss, Hursky, and Harrison, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 127, 2193–2200 (2010)], but this methodology has not been applied to distant noise sources having non-vertical arrivals. The technique presented in this paper uses a compact volu-metric array mounted to an autonomous underwater vehicle to measure the three-dimensional directionality and time delays of multipath arrivals, while adaptively rejecting clutter and multi-target interference. This is validated with experimental results in a shallow ocean environment in which a small workboat maneuvered in the vicinity. Short ranges could be esti-mated reliably using straight ray paths, but longer ranges required accounting for ray refraction.

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Copyright 2014 Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America. The following article appeared in JASA and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4881917

DOI

10.1121/1.4881917

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/12409

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