Ocean Remote Sensing Using Ambient Noise

Abstract

Our long-term scientific goal is to understand the basic physics of low-frequency sound propagation in the ocean, and the effects of environmental variability on signal stability and coherence. We seek to understand the fundamental limits to signal processing imposed by ocean variability to enable advanced signal processing techniques, including matched field processing and other adaptive array processing methods. Work on this project has focused on noise interferometry the process by which an approximation to the transient Greens function G(xA|xB, t) between locations xA and xB is estimated by cross-correlating records of ambient noise measured at xA and xB. In that context, our objective is to investigate and identify the limitations of noise interferometry for remote sensing applications in a variety of ocean environments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2015
Accession Number
AD1013874

Entities

People

  • Michael G. Brown

Organizations

  • University of Miami

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Measurement
  • Ambient Noise
  • Atmospheric Sciences
  • Cross Correlation
  • Earth Sciences
  • Environment
  • Frequency
  • Interferometry
  • Inversion
  • Measurement
  • Noise
  • Ocean Environments
  • Oceans
  • Remote Sensing
  • Signal Processing
  • Water Waves
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Nanocomposite Materials Science