浅海声速剖面的匹配波束反演方法

为了快速反演获得浅海声速剖面,利用匹配波束构造了反演代价函数,在此基础上研究了浅海声速剖面的匹配波束反演方法(MBI)。并运用东中国海的实验数据进行实际反演,验证了MBI的可行性和鲁棒性。利用垂直线列阵接收的29个不同位置的爆炸声信号进行了声速剖面反演,MBI反演的结果与实验中直接测量的声速剖面一致,且反演声速剖面的均方根误差小于2 m/s。研究结果表明,MBI比常规匹配场反演(MFI)获得浅海声速剖面更快速、更准确,并且对底质参数的失配具有较高的鲁棒性。     

浅海中水平线列阵深度对匹配场定位性能的影响

以浅海声传播模型为基础,通过计算机仿真观察到以下物理现象：浅海中海底水平线列阵的匹配场定位性能优于其他深度水平线列阵.利用简正波建模方法揭示了这一现象的物理机理.按照简正波理论,各号模式的形状是海水深度的函数.通过比较不同深度上各号模式幅度的变化,发现海底模式幅值接近零的模式号数明显小于其他深度.这说明海底水平线列阵可以对更多号模式进行采样,进而获得更多的目标声源信息,取得更好的匹配场定位效果. 关键词： 水平线列阵 匹配场定位 基阵深度     

声速剖面反演对基阵倾斜失配的敏感性研究

通过推导基阵倾斜失配给声传播时间计算带来的误差,分析了这种参数失配对基于声传播时间的声速剖面反演结果的敏感性。研究结果表明,小角度倾斜时,由基阵倾斜所带来的声速剖面反演误差与倾斜俯仰角近似成正比,与声传播时间近似成反比。当基阵倾斜方位与声源一基阵连线方向一致时带来的误差最大,而垂直时误差最小。理论计算与仿真、实验结果在变化趋势和数量级上具有较好的一致性,为反演误差预报提供了参考。     

声速剖面反演对基阵倾斜失配的敏感性研究

通过推导基阵倾斜失配给声传播时间计算带来的误差,分析了这种参数失配对基于声传播时间的声速剖面反演结果的敏感性。研究结果表明,小角度倾斜时,由基阵倾斜所带来的声速剖面反演误差与倾斜俯仰角近似成正比,与声传播时间近似成反比。当基阵倾斜方位与声源一基阵连线方向一致时带来的误差最大,而垂直时误差最小。理论计算与仿真、实验结果在变化趋势和数量级上具有较好的一致性,为反演误差预报提供了参考。     

用垂直阵确定浅海波导特性

本文介绍利用声场复简正波近似确定浅海波导特性的方法。该方法的优点在于:(1)对环境参数的依赖程度大大降低。(2)在对海底介质结构(诸如层的数量、层的厚度、纵波和横波的速度和衰减等)知之不多或根本不了解的情况下,可同时获得波导特性参数(k_m,β_m)。(3)确定波导海底界面平面波的反射系数V(k)。数值结果显示:对海底是单层或两层软固态的波导,用90M长、18阵元组成的垂直接收阵,接收频率分别为250Hz、150Hz的声信号,(1)获得的简正波水平波数k_m的精度均在10^-5以上;简正波衰减系数β_m的相对误差绝大部分在20%以内,其中前几号都在10%范围内,且简正波号数越低,误差越小。(2)基本反映海底在小掠角的反射相移和反射损失。本文在数值仿真的基础上,重点分析声场复简正波近似对93年冬季海上实验数据的处理结果。     

浅海低频长线阵声源方位估计*

浅海大孔径水平阵信号估计近端射的低频声源方位时, 常规波束形成会产生明显的波束偏移和分裂现象, 从而造成单声源方位估计偏差。针对这一问题, 提出一种基于块稀疏压缩感知的声源方位估计方法。根据简正模理论, 将水平阵接收声场表示为方位角空间的块稀疏信号模型, 并通过块正交匹配追踪算法进行方位估计。仿真和2011年北黄海实验数据结果表明所提块正交匹配追踪方法可实现浅海波导环境下低频近端射的单个声源方位的准确估计。     

Matched localization of a horizontal array in shallow sea

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浅海中水平阵的匹配定位

匹配场(MFP)和匹配模(MMP)已经广泛地用于浅海中的被动源定位。本文利用简正波过滤的一种新方法,通过短水平阵实行源定位,并比较了MFP和MMP,结果表明:MMP源定位的分辨率高于MFP,旁瓣较低,计算量大大减小,同时也讨论了水平阵系统的偏差带来的源定位失配问题。     

浅海非均匀水平阵宽带声场信号无源孔径扩展

大孔径水平阵对于浅海低频水声物理实验研究和应用至关重要,然而受实际情况制约,通常使用的水平基阵孔径十分有限,通过孔径扩展处理来扩展基阵孔径是一条重要途径。传统的无源孔径扩展方法是建立在均匀线阵、匀速相对运动和相干窄带连续信号的基础上的,难以适用于非均匀阵以及非连续宽带声源的情况。针对这些问题,提出了非均匀阵宽带声场信号的无源孔径扩展方法。使用静止布设在海底的非均匀水平短阵接收运动声源重复发射的宽带声信号,先开展均匀空间插值,然后在阵元域和波束域进行宽带扩展孔径处理。仿真和实验结果表明,在水深约70 m的浅海波导环境中,纵向间隔27.5 m的2个阵元接收20~200 Hz宽带声场,其空间插值结果与真值的相关系数大于0.99,说明宽带声场插值方法的合理性。在水平非均匀、纵向孔径250 m的短阵接收声场无法分析简正波频散特征的情况下,仿真和实验数据经过宽带无源孔径扩展处理得到孔径大于1 km的均匀线阵的声场,能高分辨区分各阶简正波,证明所提方法是有效的。     

利用传播损失反演海底单参数

根据地声反演复杂性随着待反演参数的个数减少不断降低的原理,提出一种利用传播损失反演海底单个参数的方法。通过对海底声阻抗的推导,利用声速、密度和衰减系数拟合出海底反射损失对掠射角的斜率F。基于简正波理论推导了用F描述声场的公式,并据此设计出对传播损失数据进行最小二乘法处理的反演方法。得益于将待反演参数减少至一个,该方法只需单个水听器,避免了复杂测量及多维寻优。对东海实验数据进行了实际反演,并介绍了利用反演结果F进行传播损失预报和海底性质估计的步骤。所获结果与多参数混合反演方法及实测真值进行比较,其一致性验证了方法的有效性。     

Subbottom profiling using a ship towed line array and geoacoustic inversion

Bottom profiling traditionally uses broadband signals received on a line array at long ranges to estimate the bottom layer structure and thickness. In this paper, a subbottom profiling method is developed and applied to a ship-towed line array using the same ship towed source to estimate the subbottom layer structure and thickness. A ship towed line-array system can be used to estimate bottom properties using geoacoustic inversion and can cover a wide area in a short time. It needs some prior information about the subbottom structure and layer thickness, without which the solution can be ambiguous and even erratic when resolving parameters over a wide area. It is shown that the required subbottom information can be obtained from the time-angle relation by beamforming the same acoustic signal data used for geoacoustic inversion. The time-angle analysis is used to expose the prevalent physics intrinsic to geoacoustic inversion. One finds that the tau-p relation of the bottom and the bottom reflection coefficients, sampled at discrete angles associated with bottom and multiple surface-bottom returns, are often adequate, for many practical applications, to uniquely determine the geoacoustic bottom at low (< or =1 kHz) frequencies.     

The focusing performance with a horizontal time- reversal array at different depths in shallow water

The performance of time-reversal focusing with a horizontal line array at different depths is investigated by normal mode modeling and computer simulation.It is observed that the focusing performance of a bottom-mounted horizontal time-reversal array is much better than that of a horizontal time-reversal array at other depths in shallow water.The normal mode modeling is used to explain this result.The absolute values of the modes at different depths are compared.It is shown that the number of modes whose absolute values close to zero is smaller at the bottom than that at other depths.It means that the horizontal time-reversal array deployed at the bottom can sample more modes,obtain more information of the probe source and achieve better focusing performance.The numerical simulations of time-reversal focusing performance under various conditions,such as different sound speed profiles,and different bottom parameters,lead to similar results.     

浅海波导中水平接收阵被动时反混响抑制方法研究

使用基于射线简正波异地混响理论建立的水平接收阵接收海底混响模型,提出了水平阵被动时反混响抑制方法。以水平接收阵接收回波信号的某一时刻作为开始,分别对其前一时刻和后一时刻的回波信号做时反算子分解获得两个混响子空间,将这两个混响子空间的平均作为该时刻的混响子空间的一个估计,然后利用投影处理来抑制该时刻接收信号中的混响成分。该方法可以在一定程度上克服由于海底粗糙引起的局部时间(距离)段内接收回波信号的不平稳性,使得估计得到的混响子空间更加接近真实混响子空间。因此,利用其进行被动时反混响抑制可以增强回波信混比,提高对目标的检测和方位估计能力。针对典型浅海波导环境开展的仿真验证了本文方法的有效性。     

浅海复杂环境下等效声速剖面的构建方法*

针对浅海复杂环境声速剖面水平变化情况下的声传播损失预报及目标定位问题,提出了一种基于遗传算法的等效声速剖面重构算法。首先,将声速剖面进行时间和空间上的分解,从而将声速剖面抽象为对声速剖面前三阶正交函数系数的反演;其次,利用遗传算法,以先验声速剖面集为基础,进行参数反演。仿真结果表明,在浅海复杂条件下,传播损失预报受声速剖面及海洋参数的影响,不能直接运用接收或发射位置处的声速剖面进行传播损失预报,否则会对预报结果造成误差。通过构建具有声传播累积效应的等效声速剖面可以提高匹配场定位精度,完成目标定位,且在构建等效声速剖面时,接收位置处即本地声速剖面所占权重较大。     

浅海低频垂直相控阵多模声场聚焦研究*

为了提高低频垂直相控阵声场聚焦的环境适应性,增强环境失配情况下的声场聚焦效果,提出一种多模声场聚焦方法。该方法利用环境失配对低阶模态影响相对较小的特点,只利用前3阶模态进行发射权系数的计算。仿真结果表明,多模声场具有较大的聚焦跨度,在环境失配情况下仍能在期望的聚焦位置实现良好的聚焦效果。进一步地,根据巴斯微扰理论计算分析了多模声场的混响特性。由于多模声场聚焦将能量集中到了掠射角较小的低阶模态中,因此比最优权系数聚焦具有更低的混响平均强度。多模聚焦对聚焦深度进行扫描可以实现目标的深度分辨,这在水下目标探测方面具有较高的应用前景。     

Long-range multi-carrier acoustic communication in deep water using a towed horizontal array

During a recent long-range acoustic communication experiment carried out in deep water, multi-carrier Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) communication signals were transmitted with a 50 Hz bandwidth (225-275 Hz) at various source-receiver ranges from 100 to 700 km. The experiment consisted of two mobile components: (1) a source towed slowly at a speed of 2-3 knots at ～75 m depth and (2) a horizontal line array towed at 3.5 knots at a depth of ～200 m. In addition to beamforming, an interleaver gain is exploited to compensate for low signal-to-noise ratio at the expense of data rate while providing diversity in the frequency domain. Error-free performance is shown at effective data rates of 15 and 7.5 bits/s at ranges of 550 km and 700 km, respectively, by combining interleaved repetitions with low-density parity-check coding after beamforming, demonstrating the feasibility of multi-carrier OFDM communications in deep water using a towed horizontal array.     

Multi-step geoacoustic inversion with a towed line array

Geoacoustic inversion is important for acoustic field predictions and matched field localizations in shallow water.Combing the Matched-field inversion(MFI) and the Reflectionloss inversion,a multi-step Bayesian inversion for geoacoustic parameters was presented.This method applied the posterior probability density(PPD) or inversion results from one inversion as prior information for subsequent inversion.First,the sensitive parameters were determined by the MFI.Second,the insensitive parameters were determined by the Reflection-loss inversion based on the PPD and inversion results from the MFI.The PPD results indicated that the multi-step inversion method was performed better than direct matched-field inversion,and the inversion results of some parameters were improved significantly.To demonstrate the advantages of the multi-step inversion method on the sound field prediction,the statistical properties of transmission loss based on the posterior probability were introduced.The transmission loss distribution showed that the predicted acoustic fields based on the multi-step inversion method had smaller errors.     

Bayesian geoacoustic inversion of ship noise on a horizontal array

This paper applies geoacoustic inversion to low-frequency narrow-band acoustic data from a quiet surface ship recorded on a bottom-moored horizontal line array in shallow water. A Bayesian matched-field inversion method is employed which quantifies geoacoustic uncertainties and allows for meaningful comparison of inversion results from different data sets. Geoacoustic inversion results for ship-noise data are compared with inversion results for multitone data from a towed controlled source collected in the same experiment, and with independent geophysical measurements. To increase the information content of low-level ship-noise data, the effect of including multiple, independent data segments in the inversion is investigated and shown to significantly reduce geoacoustic parameter uncertainties. Geoacoustic uncertainties are also shown to depend on ship range and orientation, with increased uncertainties for long ranges and for the ship stern oriented away from the array.     

Bayesian geoacoustic inversion in a dynamic shallow water environment

This paper presents results for matched field Bayesian geoacoustic inversion of multitonal continuous wave data collected on the New Jersey continental shelf. To account for effects of significant spatial and temporal variation of the water column sound speed, the sound speed profile was represented by empirical orthogonal functions. Data error information for the inversion was estimated from multiple time windows of the data. Inversion results for the sediment sound speeds at three ranges are in excellent agreement with the ground truth.     

Trans-dimensional Bayesian geoacoustic inversion in shallow water

To deal with the inversion problem when the spatial structure of seaffoor sediments is unknown, a trans-dimensional particle filter method is proposed, where the cross-spectral density of the pressure field is used to estimate the sediment layering structure and geoacoustic parameters. The simulation results show that the number of sediment layers and geoacoustic parameters can be effectively estimated using the proposed method, and the parallel particle calculation makes this method more effici...