Characterization of Active Underwater Acoustic Channels. Part II. Scattering in an Isovelocity Ocean

Characterization of Active Underwater Acoustic Channels. Part II. Scattering in an Isovelocity Ocean
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Total Pages: 254
Release: 1974
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The general approach to scattering phenomena developed here is now applied specifically to underwater acoustic scattering problems in an isovelocity medium, for the present without absorption and inhomogeneous properties other than the various possible scattering mechanisms themselves. Among the principal new results are (1) the explicit inclusion of doppler, which is shown to produce a nonstationary frequency-modulation of the injected signal; (2) the presence and effects of two orders of inhomogeneities in the second-order media statistics, e.g., poisson, or specular point scatterers (k=1) and continuous scattering elements (k=2); (3) the coherence properties and spectrum of the specular component (k=0); (4) necessary and sufficient conditions for the applicability of the poisson model alone (and of the earlier poisson models cited in the literature); (5) conditions that the medium be a WSSUS medium; (6) for weak scattering interactions, the wave number spectra of surfaces and volumes, including the interaction of surface displacement and motion; (7) various experimental programs for the measurement and underwater remote sensing of the medium; (8) an extensive development of wave surface statistics, particularly point and directional covariances, spectra, and wave number spectra for a variety of sea surface models, including the author's recent model; (9) strong-scattering results; and (10) channel characterizations by means of the local bicovariance and cospreading functions, with specific examples

Characterization of Active Underwater Acoustic Channels. Part I.A New Formulation for Scattering by Random Media and Interfaces

Characterization of Active Underwater Acoustic Channels. Part I.A New Formulation for Scattering by Random Media and Interfaces
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Total Pages: 128
Release: 1974
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A general approach to scattering phenomena is developed and applied specifically to underwater acoustic scattering situations involving the medium and its interfaces. The fundamental elements of the method are the development of the available scattering elements into a hierarchy of independent scatter processes, based on the scatterers activated, at any given instant. This, with the governing class of Langevin equation (e.g., forms of the (scalar) wave equation here) permits a corresponding development, in linear superposition, of the received, scattered field x sub m as a hierarchy of independent processes, x sub m(k), k=0,1,2., representing different scales of inhomogeneity which may be present in the medium, or upon its interfaces. First- and second-order moments (covariances and generalized spectra) are obtained in canonical form, representing global properties of the channel and the local properties of the medium itself. A number of probability densities are also obtained in important limiting cases, e.g. various (conditional) normal p.d.f.'s. Part I concludes with some remarks on an experimental program, designed to test and quantify various aspects of the general model, both for studies of the medium itself (and its associated interfaces), and for the broad class of statistical communication applications, such as detection, extraction, classification, communications per se, as well as signal and aperture design problems

Theoretical and Empirical Results on the Characterization of Undersea Acoustic Channels

Theoretical and Empirical Results on the Characterization of Undersea Acoustic Channels
Author: Alan W. Ellinthorpe
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Total Pages: 32
Release: 1966
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An undersea acoustic link between two points in space is represented as a random time-varying linear filter. It can therefore be characterized by its impulse response, or alternately by various Fourier transforms, known as the transfer functions, spreading function, and bi-frequency function. All four of these descriptors are random functions of two variables. A generalization of the uncorrelated scattering model is proferred and it is shown how it can fit known ocean characteristics. Results are presented of some measurements made of the time and frequency spreading imposed on audio frequency transmissions over open ocean underwater paths. Most of the results deal with frequency spreading; there are fine grain time domain measurements. Results are given for several center frequencies ranging from the low hundreds to the low thousands of cycles per second. Paths between both fixed and mobile end points have been measured. The path lengths used have ranged from one-half to several hundreds of miles. The results indicate that many of the simplifying assumptions usually made in discussions of time varying channels are not satisfied by these paths, and these points where the assumptions must be generalized are briefly discussed. (Author).