Sponsor
Office of Naval Research Ocean Acoustics Program (ONR-OA Code 322OA)
Published In
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2015
Subjects
Acoustics instrumentation, Coherence, Microphones, Reflection coefficient, Acoustic beamforming, Spatial analysis
Abstract
The seabed reflection loss (shortly "bottom loss") is an important quantity for predicting transmission loss in the ocean. A recent passive technique for estimating the bottom loss as a function of frequency and grazing angle exploits marine ambient noise (originating at the surface from breaking waves, wind, and rain) as an acoustic source. Conventional beamforming of the noise field at a vertical line array of hydrophones is a fundamental step in this technique, and the beamformer resolution in grazing angle affects the quality of the estimated bottom loss. Implementation of this technique with short arrays can be hindered by their inherently poor angular resolution. This paper presents a derivation of the bottom reflection coefficient from the ambient-noise spatial coherence function, and a technique based on this derivation for obtaining higher angular resolution bottom-loss estimates. The technique, which exploits the (approximate) spatial stationarity of the ambient-noise spatial coherence function, is demonstrated on both simulated and experimental data.
DOI
10.1121/1.4904508
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/14422
Citation Details
Muzi, L., Siderius, M., Quijano, J. E., & Dosso, S. E. (2015). High-resolution bottom-loss estimation using the ambient-noise vertical coherence function. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(1), 481-491.
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