Source Imaging and Sidelobe Suppression Using Time-Domain Techniques in a Shallow-Water Waveguide
Abstract
Source localization in a shallow-water waveguide, using harmonic (cw) techniques, is typically complicated by the repetitive sidelobe structure of the acoustic field. For this reason, much interest has been shown recently in the development and implementation of time-domain methods, which should achieve better performance because of their additional frequency averaging capability. In a previous publication C. S. Clay, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 81, 660-664 (1987), the basis for optimum signal transmission and source localization in a waveguide using time-domain techniques was described. In this present work a simple two- layer Pekeris model with shallow water depth (20 m) and short range (1500 m) has been used to compute image resolution and sidelobe suppression as a function of frequency bandwidth, number of modes, and the number of receivers in an array. The results indicate that source localization performance is most strongly dependent upon the bandwidth and number of modes available to carry the signal transmission. The physical mechanism for narrowing the source image and suppressing sidelobes is spatial averaging of the acoustic field due to variation of the horizontal wave numbers for the modes as a function of frequency. Improvements in mode sampling, by increasing the number of receivers, also reduced the level of sidelobes, but did not improve the resolution of the image. Shallow-water, algorithms, matched-field.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1992
- Accession Number
- ADA257929
Entities
People
- C. Feuillade
- C. S. Clay
Organizations
- United States Naval Research Laboratory