Published In

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Subjects

Kalman filtering, Boats, Underwater acoustics, Sonar

Abstract

This paper investigates the extraction of acoustic signatures from small boats using a passive sonar system. Noise radiated from a small boats consists of broadband noise and harmonically related tones that correspond to engine and propeller specifications. A signal processing method to automatically extract the harmonic structure of noise radiated from small boats is developed. The Harmonic Extraction and Analysis Tool (HEAT) estimates the instantaneous fundamental frequency of the harmonic tones, refines the fundamental frequency estimate using a Kalman filter, and automatically extracts the amplitudes of the harmonic tonals to generate a harmonic signature for the boat. Results are presented that show the HEAT algorithms ability to extract these signatures.

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This is the publisher's final PDF. Copyright 2011 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 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129(6), 3768-3776 and may be found at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3583500

DOI

10.1121/1.3583500

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/7148

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