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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Time-frequency methods for the analysis of multistatic acoustic scattering of elastic shells in shallow water.

Anderson, Shaun David 26 January 2011 (has links)
The development of low-frequency sonar systems, using for instance a network of autonomous systems in unmanned vehicles, provides a practical means for bistatic measurements (i.e. when the source and receiver are widely separated) allowing for multiple viewpoints of the target of interest. Time-frequency analysis, in particular Wigner-Ville analysis, takes advantage of the evolution time dependent aspect of the echo spectrum to differentiate a man-made target (e.g. elastic spherical shell) from a natural one of the similar shape (e.g. solid). A key energetic feature of fluid loaded and thin spherical shell is the coincidence pattern, or mid-frequency enhancement echoes (MFE), that result from antisymmetric Lamb-waves propagating around the circumference of the shell. This thesis investigates numerically the bistatic variations of the MFE (with respect to the monostatic configuration) using the Wigner-Ville analysis. The observed time-frequency shifts of the MFE are modeled using a previously derived quantitative ray theory for spherical shell's scattering. Additionally, the advantage of an optimal array beamformer, based on joint time delays and frequency shifts (over a conventional time-delay beamformer) is illustrated for enhancing the detection of the MFE recorded across a bistatic receiver array.

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