Optimal Deployment of Drifting Acoustic Sensors

Abstract

This is collaborative program comprised of academic, private sector and Navy researchers. The Optimal Deployment of Drifting Acoustic Sensors (ODDAS) program seeks to develop the capability to predict the trajectory of drifting sensors, such as sonobuoys. Emerging antisubmarine warfare programs seek to develop technologies facilitating the deployment of large distributed fields of offboard sensors/sonobuoys with operating lives approaching several days. The acoustic coverage of these systems over multiple day periods is highly dependent on the drift of the individual sensors. Field integrity is often compromised due to local spatial and temporal current variations within the field. The ability to forecast (and hind cast) sensor trajectories, in conjunction with acoustic performance prediction models, will enable operators to select initial deployments such that acoustic coverage will be optimized for the particular mission.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2007
Accession Number
ADA573166

Entities

People

  • David S. Hammon

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Detectors
  • Antisubmarine Warfare
  • Buoys
  • Deployment
  • Detectors
  • East China Sea
  • Experimental Data
  • Models
  • Navy
  • Oceans
  • Prototypes
  • Simulations
  • Sonobuoys
  • Standards
  • Three Dimensional
  • Trajectories
  • Wind

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers