Determination of the vertical directivity of a short pulse transmission at individual modes in a shallow sea

A method for the numerical determination of the directivity of an antenna array is considered with delay increments much shorter than the sampling period for the input signals. The method is used for determining the vertical directivity of individual modes specified according to their travel times at each hydrophone of the array. In addition to the signal with the directivity of the third mode, a signal is observed with the directivity of the first mode, which slightly advances the signal of the third mode but arrives noticeably later than the first-mode signal. The additional signal is received only by the hydrophones positioned near the sea bottom. This fact suggests a conclusion that the additional signal is caused by the scattering of the third mode from the bottom. The experiment is performed in the Barents Sea with a depth of 120 m at distances of 8 and 17 km.     

一种基于模态匹配的浅海波导中宽带脉冲声源的被动测距方法

针对浅海波导中宽带脉冲声源的被动测距问题,本文在模态匹配和匹配场处理定位方法的基础上,提出了一种适用于具有液态半无限空间海底的浅海波导中声源的单水听器被动测距方法.利用warping变换可以对脉冲声源接收信号的各阶简正波实现有效分离,由此得到各阶简正波的频域信号.海底相移参数是描述海底地声参数的一个重要参量,包含了海底地声参数信息,而各阶简正波的水平波数可以通过含有海底相移参数的表达式来表达.此外,由于声速剖面对简正波的各阶水平波数具有相近的影响,因此通过对任意两阶简正波进行联合处理,可以近似消除声速剖面对简正波水平波数差的影响.任意两阶简正波的水平波数差只近似用于海底相移参数、海深以及波导中平均声速三个参数有关,可以简单、快速地计算相应拷贝场,然后通过建立代价函数并对简正波模态进行匹配,可以实现对水下脉冲声源的被动测距.与传统的模态匹配定位方法相比,本文提出的方法既不需要使用水听器阵,又可以简单、快速地计算出拷贝场.数值仿真和海上实验数据处理结果的测距误差都在10%以内,证明了该方法的有效性.     

一种基于单水听器的浅海水下声源被动测距方法

针对浅海波导中宽带脉冲声源的被动测距问题,本文在群延迟理论的基础上,与warping变换处理相结合,提出了一种适用于浅海波导中宽带声源的单水听器被动测距方法.利用warping变换可以实现对脉冲声源接收信号各阶简正波的分离提取,对分离后的简正波进行时频分析处理可以得到各阶简正波到达时刻和频率之间的关系,即各阶简正波的频散曲线,从而得到任意两阶简正波到达接收水听器的时延差.海底相移参数P是描述海底地声参数的一个重要参量,包含了海底地声参数信息,在海底环境参数未知而P已知的情况下,利用P和简正波水平波数之间的关系可以求得任意两阶简正波的?S_(g,mn)(群慢差).根据群延迟理论,利用得到的任意两阶简正波的时延和?S_(g,mn)可实现利用单水听器对水下声源进行被动测距.本文提出的测距方法测量简单、计算方便,具有较强的实用意义.数值仿真和海上实验数据处理结果的测距误差都在10%以内,证明了该方法的有效性.     

Penetration of sound into the cold eddy of the Sargasso Sea

The results of an acoustic experiment performed in the Sargasso Sea are analyzed. The position of the receiving vessel was in a cold eddy. A 120-km-long acoustic path began in the warm waters of the Sargasso Sea and ended at the receiving vessel. Broadband sound signals were produced by 2.8-kg charges, which were fired at a depth of 290 m by another vessel moving at full speed. The interval between the explosions was 2.5 km. The signals were received by three independent hydrophones positioned at depths of 220, 600, and 1200 m. In processing the experimental data, the main attention was paid to the variability of the parameters of signals belonging to signal quartets with different numbers of bottom reflections. For these signals, on some segments of the path, a considerable intensity decrease (reaching 12 dB at frequencies above 200 Hz) was observed. For signals with different numbers of bottom reflections, the interval of distances corresponding to the intensity decrease was found to be determined by the same range of signal launch angles. It is concluded that the phenomenon under consideration is caused by the presence of a region with high horizontal sound velocity gradients, which correspond to the transition from the cold waters of the eddy to the warm waters of the Sargasso Sea. An attempt is made to reconstruct the shape of the frontal boundary.     

Evidence of Doppler-shifted Bragg scattering in the vertical plane by ocean surface waves

A set of narrowband tones (280, 370, 535, and 695 Hz) were transmitted by an acoustic source mounted on the ocean floor in 10 m deep water and received by a 64-element hydrophone line array lying on the ocean bottom 1.25 km away. Beamformer output in the vertical plane for the received acoustic tones shows evidence of Doppler-shifted Bragg scattering of the transmitted acoustic signals by the ocean surface waves. The received, scattered signals show dependence on the ocean surface wave frequencies and wavenumber vectors, as well as on acoustic frequencies and acoustic mode wavenumbers. Sidebands in the beamformer output are offset in frequency by amounts corresponding to ocean surface wave frequencies. Deviations in vertical arrival angle from specular reflection agree with those predicted by the Bragg condition through first-order perturbation theory using measured directional surface wave spectra and acoustic modes measured by the horizontal hydrophone array.     

基于垂直阵模态分解的低频水声信号盲解卷处理研究

研究了基于人工时反处理的水声信号盲解卷方法,并在此基础上提出了一种基于简正波模态分解的低频水声信号的盲解卷处理方法。该方法适用于浅海波导中垂直阵接收的远程低频水声信号的盲解卷处理。该方法首先从浅海中垂直阵接收的信号中提取(估计)出波导中传播的简正波模态函数信息,然后,根据估计的模态函数信息通过模态滤波来实现水声信道盲解卷处理。针对典型的浅海波导环境,进行了计算机仿真试验,结果表明:(1)远程低频条件下,模态分解方法可以从垂直阵接收的信号中提取出波导中有效传播的模态函数信息,因此这种方法解决了目前人工时反处理方法需要准确的模态函数先验信息的问题;(2)在一定带宽条件下,接收信号信噪比较低时,本文给出的这种基于模态滤波的盲解卷方法比人工时反处理具有更好的解卷性能。     

Effect of internal tides on slow energy fluctuations of impulse signals in an experiment on a long-distance stationary path

Temporal energy fluctuations of impuse signals generated by powerful explosive sources of sound are considered by using the experimental data obtained on a long-distance stationary path in the northwestern Pacific. The signals were received on the Kamchatka shelf (a characteristic ocean depth of about 200 m) at two points spaced by 115 km in the latitudinal direction, one of the reception points being located on the shelf far from its edge, and the other, on the shelf edge. The signal radiation was performed in the deep ocean, at a distance of about 1000 km from the shelf edge. Charges were exploded every hour for more than five days. The frequency-dependent energy fluctuations of the signals and those of the first mode alone were measured in the frequency range 10–80 Hz. It is shown that the amplitudes of energy fluctuations of the first mode in narrow bands can exceed 10 dB and make the main contribution to the energy fluctuations of the total signal. The maximum energy of the first mode is reached on the high tide. It is hypothesized that internal tide-induced variations of the sound velocity field on the shelf affect the degree of energy interaction between the first mode and the bottom.     

一种基于warping变换的浅海脉冲声源被动测距方法

针对浅海波导中脉冲声源被动测距问题, 提出了一种利用接收信号的能量密度函数进行warping变换的声源被动测距方法. 对于浅海波导, 接收信号的能量密度函数中不同号简正波相干部分, 经warping变换后输出结果的频谱中包含与声源和接收器位置无关的不变性频率特征. 这些特征频率在数值上等于理想波导中相干的两号简正波的截止频率差, 与海底参数无关, 因此仅需已知海水中的平均声速和海水深度便可计算出特征频率值. 当声源距离未知时, 利用特征频率的提取值与真实特征频率之间的关系可以实现快速测距, 极大地提高了计算速度. 为了验证方法的有效性, 对2011年11月黄海海域水声实验的接收脉冲数据进行了处理, 测距结果与实测距离符合良好, 平均测距误差在8%以内.     

Application of a noise signal in acoustic tomography of the arctic basin

The time correlation function of a noise signal propagating in an arctic-type waveguide is considered. For a coherent signal, the time cross-correlation function is formed with the use of either the total signal, or a single selected mode, or a reference signal at one of the correlator inputs. The use of narrow-band signals is shown to be preferable, because the waveguide dispersion affects the waveguide response. It is demonstrated that, for tomographic investigations in a waveguide irregular along the path, it is expedient to correlate the signals received at two different points that are selected on the path so as to enclose the waveguide part the variability of whose parameters is the object of interest.     

Sound speed profile inversion using a horizontal line array in shallow water

It is better to use a simple configuration to enhance the applicability of ocean environment inversion in shallow water.A matched-field inversion method based on a horizontal line array(HLA)is used to retrieve the variation of sound speed profile.The performance of the inversion method is verified in the South China Sea in June,2010.An HLA laid at bottom was used to receive signals from a bottom-mounted transducer.Inverted mean sound speed profiles from 9-hour long acoustic signals are in good agreement with measurements from two temperature chains at the sites of the source and receiver.The results show that an HLA can be used to monitor the variability of shallow-water sound speed profile.     

Isolated mode signals by angle and dispersion

The pattern of focused mode signals has been obtained by a method based on decomposing the modes of a real waveguide over the basis from the modes of a real waveguide with whole numbers and fractions. Variants of a noise-immune representation of isolated mode signals are given. The method is applicable under shallow sea conditions and has been tested on signals calculated for an ideal waveguide and a waveguide with real parameters, and it has been implemented in a full-scale experiment in the Barents Sea at distances of 7?C17 km. A 200 Hz wideband signal was initiated by an emitter in resonance with a wide band at a level of 10 dB per 20 Hz, which did not prevent the use of complex wideband signals for compression in individual modes. As a result, a dynamic range higher than 30 dB was obtained for mode signals, which makes it possible to estimate the waveguide parameters and observe weak fluctuations as waves propagate in the medium.     

An evaluation of the accuracy of shallow water matched field inversion results

In this article the accuracy of geo-acoustic and geometric parameter estimates obtained through matched field inversion (MFI) was assessed. Multi-frequency MFI was applied to multi-tone data (200-600 Hz) received at a 2-km source/receiver range. The acoustic source was fixed and the signals were received at a vertical array. Simultaneously with the acoustic transmissions, a CTD (conductivity, temperature and depth)-chain was towed along the acoustic track. A genetic algorithm was used for the global optimization, whereas a normal mode model was applied for the forward acoustic calculations. Acoustic data received at consecutive times were inverted and the stability of the inverted parameters was determined. Also, the parameter estimates were compared with independent measurements, such as multi-channel seismic surveys (for geo-acoustic parameters). The obtained uncertainty in the inversion results was assumed to have two distinct origins. The first origin is the inversion method itself, since each optimization will come up with some solution close to the exact optimum. Parameter coupling and the fact that some parameters hardly influence the acoustic propagation further contribute to this uncertainty. The second is due to oceanographic variability. Both contributions were evaluated through simulation. The contribution of oceanographic variability was evaluated through synthetic inversions that account for the actual sound speed variations as measured by the towed CTD-chain.     

Using short curved vertical arrays in ocean acoustic tomography

We consider the possibility of reconstructing the ocean mode structure based on measurements with short (not covering the entire ocean waveguide) arrays curved in an unknown way by ocean currents, which corresponds to the conditions of a real experiment. We have developed an algorithm for estimating the arrival times of various mode signals by solving a system of linear equations. The mode reconstruction accuracy as a function of the array length and profile curvature is investigated. The cases of using both the ocean noise field and deterministic signals as a sound source are considered. Comparison with the commonly used mode filtering method is made.     

集合经验模态分解在区域降水变化多尺度分析及气候变化响应研究中的应用

集合经验模态分解(EEMD)是一种适用于非线性、非平稳序列的信号分析方法, 将EEMD 应用于气候要素时间序列, 可提取可靠真实的气候变化信号, 同时, EEMD可以得到气候变化的固有时间尺度.本文使用EEMD方法, 从气候时间序列中提取气候信号中各个尺度的变化, 对渭河流域过去50年来的秋季降水进行多尺度分析,结果显示, 对于20世纪70年代末80年代初的全球气候突变, 渭河流域的秋季降水也有很好的响应, 而且大尺度上的响应要早于中小尺度, 其中在大尺度上主要表现为波动形式, 即降水距平正负位相持续期的变化, 从持续正位相到正负位相周期性交替出现; 而在中小尺度上主要是振幅大小, 即降水距平正负位相量级的变化, 量级从相对较大变为相对较小再逐渐增大. 关键词： 集合经验模态分解 多尺度变化 秋季降水 渭河流域     

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.     

储罐底板声源辨识及定位方法研究

储罐底板腐蚀是多声源问题,即在不同位置的腐蚀源可能同时发射应力波。这些声源信号有时会重叠被传感器接收,从而影响定位的可靠性。为此本文基于平面声发射源能量定位方法的基本理论,进行了模拟储罐底板定位实验,提出了能量定位系数的修正方法。同时通过对实验数据分析,发现快速独立分量分析(FastICA)方法可以将同种声源混合信号进行有效分离,并且基本保持原有波形特征,相干系数法可以实现对分离后的同源信号进行聚类,进而应用改进能量定位方法对声发射源进行定位,从而对声源辨识,判断事件集中度提供依据。     

Reverberation of Wideband Signals in Shallow Water when Using Sound Focusing

Within the framework of the normal mode approximation, expressions are obtained for calculating bottom reverberation signals recorded by a horizontal array in an inhomogeneous shallow-water waveguide in a wide frequency band. These expressions can be used to simulate bottom-scattered signals both for a monostatic and bistatic geometry, as well as in the case when sound focusing is applied. The constructed model is used to numerically study the structure of bottom reverberation in a waveguide with different parameters and characteristics of the receiver and source systems. The considered bottom inhomogeneities are the slope of the bottom, change in thermocline depth, and wind waves. The study demonstrates the promise of using sound focusing as time reversal using a single receiver–transmitter element to enhance the reverberation signal arriving from a given bottom area.     

Burst模式在多波束声呐高帧率测深方法中的应用

在常规多波束测深声呐系统中,需要等待远距离目标信号到达接收基阵后才能再次发射探测信号,这将导致测深帧率下降。针对该问题,本文提出了一种基于Burst模式的多波束声呐高帧率测深方法。由于各角度的海底回波持续时间远小于远距离目标信号到达接收基阵的所需时间,根据这一特性我们采用Burst模式,通过等间隔地发射多帧信号并接收,同时保证发射的间隔大于最大波束持续时间,实现多帧信号在时间角度域中的分离,提高测深系统帧率。由于相邻帧的隧道效应会与部分波束发生重叠,针对该问题采用改进的线性约束最小方差算法,实现了低副瓣宽零陷的波束形成,从而削弱隧道效应的影响。最后通过仿真数据验证了本文所提方法的有效性,表明该方法在特定条件下能够将测深帧率提高3.3倍。     

Guided wave health monitoring of complex structures by sparse array systems: Influence of temperature changes on performance

Structural health monitoring of complex structures with guided waves is complicated because of the large number of overlapping reflections obtained in time-traces. One of the strategies to avoid having to interpret raw time signals is to use baseline subtraction techniques. However, environmental effects modify the signals, causing large amplitude levels in the subtracted signal which can mask information received from weak reflectors such as defects. A large database of baselines covering environmental effects commonly faced by the structure becomes necessary, and the simple gathering of these baselines becomes a difficult task. This paper investigates how a temperature compensation method can be used to reduce the number of signals required in the database. The strong influence of signal complexity and mode purity on the effectiveness of this method is shown experimentally. Finally, an airframe panel is tested using a temperature compensation strategy developed.