System and processor for real-time extraction of ocean bottom properties
First Claim
1. A processor for characterizing ocean bottom parameters in real-time comprising:
- signal processing means for receiving navigational, environmental, and sonar data and processing said data into a reverberation energy envelope, said reverberation energy envelope being generated from an acoustic return from a sonar ping, and into blocks of time correlated data;
data monitoring means, coupled to said signal processing means, for monitoring said navigational, environmental, and sonar state data and said reverberation energy envelope for changes; and
model processing means, responsive to said data monitoring means, for building a set of acoustic model eigenrays, building a reference reverberation model, said reference reverberation model comprising reference reverberation as a function of time, and extracting bottom parameters by comparing said reverberation energy envelope with said reference reverberation model.
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Abstract
A system for characterizing ocean bottom properties in real-time by explong the multipath structure of reverberation to extract values for the bottom loss and the bottom scattering coefficient. The system obtains environmental and navigational data and synchronizes the data with sonar state data and acoustic beam data to produce an input data stream to an extraction processor. The extraction processor utilizes a digital signal processing means to produce a reverberation energy envelope from the acoustic beam data and time correlate the reverberation energy envelope with the environmental, navigational, and sonar state data. A general purpose computer monitors the reverberation envelope and the environmental, navigational, and sonar state data for change and instructs a modeling processor to construct a new eigenray propagation model and a new reference reverberation model if any changes occur in the data that results in a change to the previously constructed eigenray propagation or reference reverberation models. A pair of local extraction processors perform the extraction of the bottom loss and the bottom scattering coefficient by performing a probe pulse extraction algorithm and a reverberation decay algorithm, respectively.
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1. A processor for characterizing ocean bottom parameters in real-time comprising:
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signal processing means for receiving navigational, environmental, and sonar data and processing said data into a reverberation energy envelope, said reverberation energy envelope being generated from an acoustic return from a sonar ping, and into blocks of time correlated data; data monitoring means, coupled to said signal processing means, for monitoring said navigational, environmental, and sonar state data and said reverberation energy envelope for changes; and model processing means, responsive to said data monitoring means, for building a set of acoustic model eigenrays, building a reference reverberation model, said reference reverberation model comprising reference reverberation as a function of time, and extracting bottom parameters by comparing said reverberation energy envelope with said reference reverberation model. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A system for characterizing ocean bottom parameters in real-time comprising:
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sensing means for obtaining navigational and environmental data including position coordinates, heading, speed, wind direction and velocity, and water temperature a depth data; a sonar system producing sonar state data corresponding to the configuration of said sonar system and acoustic beam data corresponding to sound received at a sonar array; data acquisition means for producing a data stream, said data stream comprising said navigational, environmental and sonar state data multiplexed with said acoustic beam data; signal processing means for receiving said data stream, processing said acoustic beam data into a reverberation energy envelope, said reverberation energy envelope being generated from an acoustic return from a sonar ping, and correlating said navigational, environmental, and sonar state data with said reverberation energy envelope over a common time domain; data monitoring means, coupled to said signal processing means, for monitoring said navigational, environmental and sonar state data and said reverberation energy envelope for changes; and model processing means, responsive to said data monitoring means, for building a set of acoustic model eigenray, building a reference reverberation model, said reference reverberation mode, comprising reference reverberation as a function of time, and extracting bottom parameters by comparing said reverberation energy envelope with said reference reverberation model. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8)
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