"Inversion in an uncertain ocean using Gaussian processes" by Zoi Heleni Michalopoulou and Peter Gerstoft
 

Inversion in an uncertain ocean using Gaussian processes

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-2023

Abstract

Gaussian processes (GPs) can capture correlation of the acoustic field at different depths in the ocean. This feature is exploited in this work for pre-processing acoustic data before these are employed for source localization and environmental inversion using matched field inversion (MFI) in an underwater waveguide. Via the application of GPs, the data are denoised and interpolated, generating densely populated acoustic fields at virtual arrays, which are then used as data in MFI. Replicas are also computed at the virtual receivers at which field predictions are made. The correlations among field measurements at distinct spatial points are manifested through the selection of kernel functions. These rely on hyperparameters, that are estimated through a maximum likelihood process for optimal denoising and interpolation. The approach, employing Gaussian and Matérn kernels, is tested on synthetic and real data with both an exhaustive search and genetic algorithms and is found to be superior to conventional beamformer MFI. It is also shown that the Matérn kernel, providing more degrees of freedom because of an increased number of hyperparameters, is preferable over the frequently used Gaussian kernel.

Identifier

85149858710 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0017437

e-ISSN

15208524

ISSN

00014966

PubMed ID

37002109

First Page

1600

Last Page

1611

Issue

3

Volume

153

Grant

N00014-18-1-2118

Fund Ref

Office of Naval Research

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