Determination of the path of a sound source moving in an inhomogeneous medium

The possibility of determining the actual paths of moving sound sources from the signals received by a linear horizontal array whose size is large compared to the wavelength is investigated with the use of procedures suggested earlier for the imaging of dynamic objects moving below an inhomogeneous layer. Two cases of signal reception are considered: when the signals propagate in the oceanic waveguide and when the signals propagate through an inhomogeneous layer located near the array. It is shown that, unlike the standard spatial processing procedures, the proposed methods allow one to measure the absolute angular displacements to within the diffraction resolution of the array and to eliminate the ambiguity in angular measurements. An important point is that the proposed methods require no prior data on the parameters of the inhomogeneous layer or the multimode waveguide.