A Prony Measuring System for Underwater Acoustical Measurements.

Abstract

A new digital system, the Prony Measuring System, for underwater acoustical measurements from 1 Hz to approximately 2 MHz has been developed at the Underwater Sound Reference Detachment of the Naval Research Laboratory. The heart of the system is a stable signal and sampling source and 12-bit, 5-MHz, analog-to-digital converter with a 4K buffer memory. A PDP-11/23 serves as a controller as well as a signal processor for averaging, and amplitude and phase estimation. The measuring system as a whole can be viewed as an instrument and can be controlled by a host computer or desk-top calculator via the IEEE-488 General-Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB). (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 31, 1982
Accession Number
ADA112008

Entities

People

  • C. K. Brown
  • R. W. Luckey

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acoustic Measurement
  • Acoustics
  • Amplifiers
  • Circuit Boards
  • Circuits
  • Computers
  • Converters
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Synthesizers
  • Host Computers
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Power Amplifiers
  • Printed Circuits
  • Signal Processing

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Oceanography.