Environmental inversion using dispersion tracking in a shallow water environment

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-2018

Abstract

It has been previously shown using synthetic data that dispersion tracking with particle filtering can be used for sediment sound speed inversion. Here, dispersion tracking is performed with data collected in the Gulf of Mexico for sediment sound speed and thickness and water column depth estimation. In this experiment, sound that propagates a long distance from the source allows the identification of dispersion curves reflecting the different group velocities of modal frequencies within and across modes. Although the data are noisy, dispersion curves are tracked with sequential filtering and used for inversion. Probability density functions of the three unknown parameters are obtained. Water column depth is estimated with little uncertainty. The estimated sound speed is representative of sandy sediment and the sediment thickness matches to a large extent prior knowledge.

Identifier

85043790025 (Scopus)

Publication Title

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5026245

ISSN

00014966

PubMed ID

29604663

First Page

EL188

Last Page

EL193

Issue

3

Volume

143

Grant

N000141612485

Fund Ref

Office of Naval Research

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