Browsing by Author "Harrison, Chris H."
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A noise directionality model including variable bathymetry
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)In this paper we investigate the noise directionality due to distributed surface sources m several envtronments with a uniformly sloping sea bed. Of particular interest are frequency dependence and the question of the ... -
A relation between multipath group velocity, mode number, and ray cycle distance
(CMRE, 2014/01)Weston's ray invariant or "characteristic time" in a range-dependent environment is exactly equivalent to the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin phase integral for ducted normal modes. By considering a ray element it is shown that ... -
An approximate form of the Rayleigh reflection loss and its phase: application to reverberation calculation
(NURC, 2012/04)A useful approximation to the Rayleigh reflection coefficient for two half-spaces composed of water over sediment is derived. This exhibits dependence on angle that may deviate considerably from linear in the interval ... -
Bottom reflection properties deduced from an ambient noise: simulation of a processing technique
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 2002/11)A promising new method has already been proposed [SACLANTCEN SM-387] to calculate bottom reflection loss from ambient noise directionality. Although this method has been tried experimentally at more than 11 sites under ... -
Doppler passive fathometry
(CMRE, 2019/05)Passive fathometry is a technique whereby broadband ambient ocean noise received on an array of hydrophones is averaged and cross-correlated to produce a sub-bottom profile [Siderius, Harrison, and Porter (2006). J. Acoust. ... -
Formulae for bistatic signal and reverberation
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 2002/12)This report demonstrates that it is possible to obtain closed-form solutions for signal and reverberation in a wide variety of bistatic scenarios including ducts and bottom bathymetry. These formulae adapt earlier monostatic ... -
Geoacoustic inversion using multipath pulse shape
(NURC, 2008/09)Experimental data, measured in a shallow water region of the Mediterranean Sea, are used to show that the variation of received intensity with time is well described by existing expressions [Harrison and Nielsen, J. Acoust. ... -
Multipath pulse shape in a refracting environment
(NURC, 2007/11)Multiple boundary interactions in shallow water propagation introduce a more or less Gaussian angle distribution at a distant receiver. When all paths are added the result is 'mode-stripping', i.e. the steep rays are ... -
Multipath pulse shapes in shallow water: theory and simulation
(NURC, 2007/04)In shallow water propagation the steeper ray angles are weakened most by boundary losses. Regarding the sound intensity as a continuous function of angle it can be converted into a function of travel time to reveal the ... -
Noise measurements during MAPEX 2000
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 2002/03)During MAPEX2000 some simultaneous ambient noise measurements with an HLA and satellite SAR images were collected. The aim was to predict shipping and wind noise from the satellite radar and to compare results with acoustic ... -
The ocean noise coherence matrix and its rank
(CMRE, 2019/05)An expression for the cross-spectral density matrix of ocean noise naturally separates into a Toeplitz part and a Hankel part [Harrison (2017). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 141, 2812?2820]. The Toeplitz part is shown to be substantially ... -
Predicting underwater ambient noise with an evolutionary signal processing method
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 2001/06)In this report we employ recent developments in non-linear physics and time series prediction to study the physical characteristics of measured underwater ambient sounds. Specifically, we examine the predictability of a ... -
Ray convergence in a flux-like propagation formulation
(CMRE, 2014/01)The energy flux formulation of waveguide propagation is closely related to the incoherent mode sum, and its simplicity has led to development of efficient computational algorithms for reverberation and target echo strength, ... -
Separability of scattering and reflection parameters in reverberation inversion
(NURC, 2007/11)A premise of reverberation inversion is that one can separate geoacoustic reflection properties from scattering properties since their effects on reverberation are distinguishable. Some doubt has been cast on this premise ... -
Separability of seabed reflection and scattering properties in reverberation inversion
(NURC, 2007/02)Separation of scattering properties (Lambert's mu) from reflection properties (the reflection loss angle derivative alpha) presents difficulties in the geoacoustic inversion of long range reverberation in isovelocity ... -
Separation of measured noise coherence matrix into Toeplitz and Hankel parts
(CMRE, 2017/08)The cross-spectral density of ocean ambient noise is usually estimated from the product of the complex hydrophone signals, each of which already corresponds to the summed responses of sources from all angles. The true ... -
Signal and reverberation formulae including refraction
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 2003/04)Because reverberation is an incoherent process it is possible to base realistic solutions on very simple flux theory. This report extends the closed-form signal and reverberation formulae of an earlier report [SACLANTCEN ... -
SUPREMO: a multistatic sonar performance model
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 2002/11)Multistatic sonars introduce new problems to the modeller such as mutual interference from multiple sources and variable target aspect in a background of range-dependent bistatic reverberation. A multistatic sonar performance ... -
Target detection and location with ambient noise
(NURC, 2008/09)By placing a vertical array in an ambient noise field and forming an upward and a downward beam one obtains two time series which can be cross correlated to reveal a subbottom profile of the seabed [Siderius et al., J. ... -
Target time smearing with short transmmissions and multipath propagation
(NURC, 2012/04)In active sonar the target echo level is often estimated with a propagation model that adds all multipath arrivals. If the (post-correlator) transmitted pulse is short compared to the multipath time spread then there is ...
