Time-warping in underwater acoustics: theory and applications

Abstract

The proposed work focuses on a signal processing technique known as time-warping. Time-warping is used to extract fixed mode number contributions from transient wavefield measurements made on a single hydrophone, i.e., without performing traditional mode filtering. The time-warping transform is environmentally dependent. Work to date has focused on application of a particular time-warping transform, the ideal shallow water waveguide transform, whose derivation assumes the ocean is homogeneous and overlies a flat rigid bottom. Recently, the proposer derived a time-warping transform that can be applied to a large class of underwater acoustic waveguides; the new general time-warping transform reduces to the ideal shallow water waveguide transform as a special case. In the proposed work we seek to expand on the theoretical development of the general time-warping algorithm, focusing on applications, and further explore its use on a variety of underwater acoustic data sets. The applications that we will focus on are sound speed structure recovery and source function recovery/underwater communication.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
May 05, 2021
Source ID
N000142112511

Entities

People

  • Michael C Brown

Organizations

  • Office of Naval Research
  • United States Navy
  • University of Miami

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.