APPLICATION OF TECHNIQUES OF STATISTICAL COMMUNICATION THEORY IN UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS

Abstract

Research i concerned with analytical solutions of selected passive sonar problem by us of the techniques of statistical communication th ory. Specific problems pr ntly bei g inv stigated are: (1) The characteristics of the adaptive nonpar metric-type detector functional when used to detect both gaussian and non-gaussian sign ls in either gaussian or non-gaussia noise; (2) Th ch racteristics of t e detector for nois like signals in the presence of impulse-type background noise; (3) The opti um use, from a detec ion decision standpoint, of the acoustic information vailable fro a hydrophone array. The practical implement tion of the adaptive detector was considered. A design was obtained which could process 1000 data samples and 3000 noise samples aken at a 2-kc rate, in real time. The detector outputs would be available ith 1/2 sec of the epoch of the final data ample. A research report describing the status of the analysis on optimal array detection systems is appended to this report. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0266138

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Detection
  • Acoustic Equipment
  • Acoustics
  • Background Noise
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Hydrophones
  • Noise
  • Passive Sonar
  • Physics
  • Sonar
  • Underwater Acoustics
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

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  • Statistical inference.