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- Acoustic channel frequency response estimation using sources of opportunityPublication . Santos, Ana Bela; Felisberto, P.; Jesus, S. M.This work addresses the usage of ship radiated noise to estimate the ocean acoustic water propagation channel response between two vertical line arrays. We derive an expression for the frequency response channel estimate using a normal mode development based on cross-correlation methods, in a similar way as Roux et al. [1]. Its applicability and limitations in simulated and real conditions is discussed. Simulations are conducted using the normal mode model KRAKEN, based on the experimental setup and environmental parameters gathered during the RADAR' 07 sea trial, off the west coast of Portugal, in July of 2007. In this sea trial two drifting vertical line arrays with 16 and 8 hydrophones were deployed in a range independent bathymetric area, at 300 m and 1.3 km distance from the Research Vessel NRP D. Carlos I, whose track then moved away from the arrays, radiating noise in the frequency band bellow 750 Hz. The wave fronts structure, obtained from actual acoustic data of the above referred sea trial, reveals agreement with the simulations obtained with the proposed approach. These results suggest the feasibility of the method for future application in a passive ocean acoustics tomography framework to the estimation of sound speed perturbations in the water column.
- Close range ship noise cross correlations with a vector sensor in view of geoacoustic inversionPublication . Wu Yanqun; Santos, Ana Bela; Felisberto, P.; Jesus, S. M.Distant ship noise has been utilized for geoacoustic inversion and ocean monitoring for many years. In a shallow water experiment, Makai 2005, a 4-element acoustic vector sensor array was deployed at the stern of the research vessel R/V Kilo Moana. The recorded engine noise of R/V Kilo Moana during its dynamic positioning was analyzed by the DEMON (Detection of Envelope Modulation on Noise) method. The strongest modulation frequency band of the ship noise was found by a group of band-pass filters for further data processing. Multipath arrivals in the vertical particle velocity have higher signal-to-noise ratios than those in the horizontal particle velocities because of steep arrival directions. By exploiting this advantage, the cross-correlation of broadband ship noise between the pressure and the vertical particle velocity can be used for multipath information exploration. Since ship noise is often characterized as continuous broadband noise plus strong tonal noise, the cross-correlation of tonal noise would dominate that of broadband noise, and consequently cover the multipath arrival pattern. Therefore, spectral weighting functions are applied in order to reduce the noise contamination and ensure sharp multipath peaks in the cross-correlation. For engine noise emitted by the dynamically positioned ship, a short correlation time of 0.4s was used in order to keep the time delay fluctuation details of multipath arrivals. Clear multiple arrivals are seen in the cross-correlation of different arrivals, and verified by the ray tracing program TRACEO. The results demonstrate the potential of only one acoustic vector sensor in applications of source localization and geoacoustic inversion.
- Using shipping noise for sound speed inversion in coastal areasPublication . Santos, Ana Bela; Felisberto, Paulo; Jesus, SergioPassive sound speed estimation using radiated ship noise is an appealing approach for long-term ocean observation close to ship lanes. In this paper we analyze the noise recorded in two drifting vertical line arrays (VLAs) deployed 1 km apart, in Setubal's underwater canyon area off the west coast of Portugal during the RADAR' 07 sea trial. Automatic Information System (AIS) recordings for this period reveal a major tanker passing in the area, with its acoustic signature observed in the spectrogram as a characteristic striation time-frequency pattern. By cross correlation and beamforming of the received signals at the VLAs we obtain propagating paths traversing the hydrophones of both VLAs and respective travel times. Such information is used for sound speed estimation. We discuss the applicability of the method to track sound speed perturbations using historical sound speed profiles for the area obtained from CMEMS (COPERNICUS Marine Environment Monitoring Service). This work is a contribution for application in a passive ocean acoustics framework for the estimation of sound speed perturbations in the water column.