APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Sperm Whale Impulse Noise and Incoherent
Impulsive noise interference of a biological origin is common in underwater acoustic environments. Here we report on properties of impulsive noise produced by sperm whales, recorded in deep water off the coast of Manus Island. We analyse the noise as a function of frequency band, and find strong non...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.94.8975 2023-05-15T18:26:45+02:00 APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE Sperm Whale Impulse Noise and Incoherent Derek Bertilone Damien Killeen The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2002 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.94.8975 http://www.dsto.defence.gov.au/publications/2493/DSTO-TR-1357.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.94.8975 http://www.dsto.defence.gov.au/publications/2493/DSTO-TR-1357.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://www.dsto.defence.gov.au/publications/2493/DSTO-TR-1357.pdf text 2002 ftciteseerx 2016-01-08T19:57:07Z Impulsive noise interference of a biological origin is common in underwater acoustic environments. Here we report on properties of impulsive noise produced by sperm whales, recorded in deep water off the coast of Manus Island. We analyse the noise as a function of frequency band, and find strong non-Gaussian effects in the range 1-6 kHz. Sonar performance can be improved by utilising nonlinear filtering techniques from non-Gaussian detection theory. We demonstrate this by measuring empirical gains for a constant false-alarm rate (CFAR) incoherent narrowband processor. We investigate both parametric locally optimum and nonparametric filtering of the time-domain data to enhance weak signal detection. Simulated Rayleigh fading signals were inserted into the noise data, and the detection threshold was found to be lowered by about 4 dB over conventional processing, for signal frequencies 1.5 kHz and 4.5 kHz and a false-alarm probability of 0.0001. Performance degradations can potentially occur at large signal-to-noise ratios, but these were mitigated using a simple technique for fusing the non-Gaussian processor with a conventional processor Text Sperm whale Unknown |
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Impulsive noise interference of a biological origin is common in underwater acoustic environments. Here we report on properties of impulsive noise produced by sperm whales, recorded in deep water off the coast of Manus Island. We analyse the noise as a function of frequency band, and find strong non-Gaussian effects in the range 1-6 kHz. Sonar performance can be improved by utilising nonlinear filtering techniques from non-Gaussian detection theory. We demonstrate this by measuring empirical gains for a constant false-alarm rate (CFAR) incoherent narrowband processor. We investigate both parametric locally optimum and nonparametric filtering of the time-domain data to enhance weak signal detection. Simulated Rayleigh fading signals were inserted into the noise data, and the detection threshold was found to be lowered by about 4 dB over conventional processing, for signal frequencies 1.5 kHz and 4.5 kHz and a false-alarm probability of 0.0001. Performance degradations can potentially occur at large signal-to-noise ratios, but these were mitigated using a simple technique for fusing the non-Gaussian processor with a conventional processor |
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