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Predicting underwater acoustic transmission loss in the SOFAR channel from ray trajectories via deep learning
Haitao Wang1, Shiwei Peng1, Qunyi He1
1School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, 710072, Chinawht@nwpu.edu.cn, pengsw@mail.nwpu.edu.cn, hequnyi123@mail.nwpu.edu.cn, zenggxy@nwpu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Predicting acoustic transmission loss in the SOFAR channel faces challenges, such as excessively complex algorithms and computationally intensive calculations in classical methods. To address these challenges, a deep learning-based underwater acoustic transmission loss prediction method is proposed. By properly training a U-net-type convolutional neural network, the method can provide an accurate mapping between ray trajectories and the transmission loss over the problem domain. Verifications are performed in a SOFAR channel with Munk's sound speed profile. The results suggest that the method has potential to be used as a fast predicting model without sacrificing accuracy.
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