Coherent processing of shipping noise for ocean monitoring
Shane W Lani1, Karim G Sabra, William S Hodgkiss
1School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0405, USA. lani.shane@gatech.edu
Abstract:
Ambient noise was recorded on two vertical line arrays (VLAs) separated by 450 m and deployed in shallow water (depth ~150 m) off San Diego, CA continuously for 6 days. Recordings were dominated by non-stationary and non-uniform broadband shipping noise (250 Hz to 1.5 kHz). Stable coherent noise wavefronts were extracted from ambient noise correlations between the VLAs during all 6 days by mitigating the effect of discrete shipping events and using array beamforming with data-derived steering vectors. This procedure allows the tracking of arrival-time variations of these coherent wavefronts during 6 days and may help in developing future passive acoustic tomography systems.
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