Quality Control Analysis of SUS Processing from ACODAC Data

Abstract

The errors associated with the analysis of acoustic signals generated by underwater explosive sources are analyzed in this report. Thus, the effects of analog reproduction and subsequent digital conversion of the data on the estimation of propagation loss are considered. In addition the techniques of the spectral analysis as applied to these data are discussed. It is shown that the digitizing processing can be repeated on a day-to-day basis to the extent that the energy in frequency bands for either shots or noise have standard deviations of 1 to 2%. The times at which the automatic shot processor detected a shot showed no fluctuations other than those to be expected from the temporal resolution imposed by the sampling rate. The standard deviations due to repeated processing of transmission loss for a given frequency band is of the order of 0. 1 to 0.2 dB.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 15, 1974
Accession Number
ADB000283

Entities

People

  • Stephen K. Mitchell
  • Terry D. Plemons

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Austin

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ambient Noise
  • Conversion
  • Detection
  • Explosives
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • Measurement
  • Military Research
  • Noise
  • Phase Control
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Playback
  • Power Spectra
  • Sampling
  • Statistics
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Transmission Loss

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design