The Preliminary Study on Spatial Correlation of Ocean Sound Field

Jin-bao Weng, Yan-ming Yang
 
Ocean Laboratory of Acoustics and Remote Sensing, Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration
No.178, Daxue Road, Siming District, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China
+8615750719913, +86-0592-2197605, wengjinbao@tio.org.cn, yangyanming@tio.org.cn
 
Abstract: 
The sound field temporal correlation and spatial correlation, which are the foundation of the investigation of underwater signal space-time high-order characteristics, have important value in the underwater acoustic application. The spatial correlation is studied based on the shallow water acoustic propagation experiment data acquired in the northern South China Sea in 2017, and the deep water acoustic propagation experiment data acquired in the western Pacific in 2013. As for the explosive sound signals in shallow water, time domain waveform cross-correlation coefficients between signals from different propagation distance are calculated. In contrast, the linear frequency modulated signals in deep water need additional matched filtering. The signal processing results shows that, the overall spatial correlation is poor and the correlation radius is relatively small in shallow water, the convergence zone has an obviously better spatial correlation than the shadow zone for the deep water situation. The processing result is verified by simulation and analysis.
 
Keywords: 

Spatial Correlation, Ocean Sound Field, Shallow Water and Deep Water

pages: 

19-22

DOI: 

10.35745/icice2018v2.005

Year: 

2018

Published in: 

2nd International Conference on Information, Communication and Engineering (ICICE 2018)

Full paper download: