Bayesian tracking of multiple ocean acoustic sources with environmental uncertainties

Authors

  • Michael J. Wilmut School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada
  • Stan E. Dosso School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 3P6, Canada

Keywords:

Acoustics, Bayesian networks, Acoustic data, Bayesian approaches, Bayesian formulation, Bayesian tracking, Closed form, Deep sources, Environmental parameter, Environmental uncertainty, Likelihood functions, Multiple acoustic sources, Multiple source, Noise statistics, Noise variance, Ocean acoustics, Prior information, Seabed properties, Shallow-water, Source strength

Abstract

The article describes a Bayesian approach to the problem of simultaneous tracking of multiple acoustic sources in a shallow-water environment in which water- column and seabed properties are not well known. The Bayesian formulation is based on treating the environmental parameters, noise statistics, and locations and complex strengths of multiple sources as unknown random variables constrained by acoustic data formulated in terms of a likelihood function and be prior information. Closed form maximum-likelihood expressions for source strengths and noise variance at each frequency allow these parameters to be sampled implicitly, substantially reducing the dimensionality of the inversion. The multiple-source tracking procedure outlined in the previous section is demonstrated here with a two-source synthetic example involving shallow and deep sources moving along similar tracks.

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Published

2011-09-01

How to Cite

1.
Wilmut MJ, Dosso SE. Bayesian tracking of multiple ocean acoustic sources with environmental uncertainties. Canadian Acoustics [Internet]. 2011 Sep. 1 [cited 2025 Feb. 13];39(3):208-9. Available from: https://jcaa.caa-aca.ca/index.php/jcaa/article/view/2484

Issue

Vol. 39 No. 3 (2011)

Section

Proceedings of the Acoustics Week in Canada

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