A tomographic ocean sound speed profile from a long veritcal acoustic array
Citable URI
https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5502Location
Northeast Pacific OceanDOI
10.1575/1912/5502Keyword
Tomography; Acoustic surface wave filtersAbstract
An average sound speed profile over a 1000 km section of the northeast Pacific
ocean is obtained using Ocean Acoustic Tomography, from data acquired during the
1987 SVLA experiment on a long (900 m) 120 hydrophone vertical acoustic array.
In particular, we pulse compress the received signal with a phase-only matched filter.
The signal, centered at 80Hz, is phase-modulated by a maximal length sequence.
A fast m-sequence cross-correlation algorithm based on the Hadamard transform is
used. In addition, wide band Doppler correction and coherent averaging of repetitions
of the signal are performed.
The tomographic inversion is initialized from a range averaged climatological profile.
Multipaths are identified from ray theory. The identified arrivals are inverted for
a range-independent sound speed profile change estimate. Estimates of source and
array position error are also obtained. For the limited data set used, the sound speed
change estimate is found to be insignificant, and a significant instrument position
estimate is obtained.
Description
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution February 1992
Suggested Citation
Thesis: Njeru, James Murwanthanje, "A tomographic ocean sound speed profile from a long veritcal acoustic array", 1992-02, DOI:10.1575/1912/5502, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/5502Related items
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