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Assessment of the performance of the near-bottom hydrophones of the U.S. Navy Southern California offshore range in detecting, localizing and reconstructing 10-20KHZ odontocete whistles

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dc.contributor Chiu, Ching-Sang
dc.contributor Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
dc.creator Hager, Carl Allen.
dc.date March 2008
dc.date 2012-08-22T15:34:58Z
dc.date 2012-08-22T15:34:58Z
dc.date 2008-03
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-19T07:28:27Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-19T07:28:27Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10945/11060
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/99980
dc.description A series of 10 to 20 kHz, frequency-sweeping signals synthesizing whistles of vocalizing Odontocetes was transmitted from a J-9 sound projector suspended from the Research Vessel Pt Sur while over the U.S. Navy Southern California Offshore Range (SCORE) Underwater Acoustic Range from 11 to 13 August 2004. The transmissions were recorded by a group of seven near-bottom hydrophones of the Range. Using statistical analysis on ensembles of the repeated transmissions, the relationship between probability of detection p (D), probability of false alarm p (FA), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the band-passed hydrophone data and detection range were derived for both a correlator and energy detector. To extrapolate the detection range for a different SL, a ray propagation model was employed. Additionally, the feasibility of using the near-bottom hydrophones of the Range for three-dimensional localization and for reconstructing the source signal waveform was assessed. While the experimental results show that accurate horizontal location estimates can be easily obtained through a minimization of the misfit between the observed and predicted differences in the signal arrival times at a cluster of hydrophones, a high-quality depth estimate is more difficult to accomplish. In order to choose a satisfactory depth estimator, simulated data were used to systematically quantify the sensitivity of the source depth estimates, produced by a set of commonly used frequency and time-domain processing methods to additive noise, sound-speed profile mismatch and hydrophone position errors. The simulation results suggest that a timedomain signal magnitude matching scheme consistently outperforms the other methods. The performance of this scheme was further demonstrated with experimental data. For source signal waveform reconstruction, the sensitivity of a frequency-uncorrelated, leastsquares technique to the same errors was investigated.
dc.description http://archive.org/details/assessmentofperf1094511060
dc.description Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
dc.format xvi, 63 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.publisher Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
dc.subject Matched Field Processing
dc.subject Odontocete
dc.subject Magnitude Matching
dc.subject Time Domain
dc.subject Localization
dc.subject Depth Estimation
dc.subject Acoustic Model
dc.subject Bottom Hydrophone
dc.subject Least Squares Estimation
dc.title Assessment of the performance of the near-bottom hydrophones of the U.S. Navy Southern California offshore range in detecting, localizing and reconstructing 10-20KHZ odontocete whistles


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