De-Dopplerization of Acoustic Measurements

Abstract

To ensure acoustic directivity patterns are valid across a wide range of sound source speeds the effect of Doppler shifting must be removed from acoustic measurements used to build directivity patterns. Traditionally, obtaining spectral information by analyzing acoustic measurements with Fourier transforms requires complex resampling to overcome stationary signal requirements. Here, a simple shifting of band energy obtained from fractional octave band digital filters generates a de-Dopplerized spectrum without complex resampling algorithms. An equation defining the amount of energy shifting required is derived from fractional octave center frequencies. This equation is applied to a numerical simulation and an overflight measurement to remove the Doppler affect in spectral data. The de-Dopplerization through application of energy shifting accurately removes vehicle motion effects from acoustic measurements without complex resampling.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 10, 2017
Accession Number
AD1038384

Entities

People

  • Frank Mobley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Emissions
  • Acoustic Measurement
  • Acoustics
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Digital Filters
  • Doppler Effect
  • Filters
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Shift
  • Government Procurement
  • Measurement
  • Overflight
  • Simulations
  • Sound Pressure
  • Spectra
  • Stationary

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.