Zur Validierung des Verfahrens der akustischen Tomographie, das als Fernerkundungssverfahren trägheits- und berührungslos arbeitet, werden Vergleichsmessungen mit herkömmlichen Sensoren für die Lufttemperatur und Luftfeuchte durchgeführt. Dabei zeigen sich die Grenzen der Erfassung dieser Größen in Bezug auf Strahlungseinfluss und Trägheit der Messgeräte. Hier werden einige Probleme bei der Verwendung konventioneller Hütten und Lösungsvorschläge aufgezeigt. / In order to validate measurements with the acoustic tomography, which operates as an remote sensing system lagless and contactless, comparison measurements were performed with conventional sensors for the air temperature and humidity. The accuracy of these quantities is limited by the radiation influence and the lag of the instruments. Here some difficulties are pointed out by using conventional shelters and solutions are demonstrated.

Acoustic travel time tomography is presented as an experimental technique for remote monitoring of areally averaged meteorological quantities as the air temperature and the horizontal wind speed. This ground based remote sensing technique uses the nearly horizontal propagation of sound waves in the atmospheric surface layer. Here the acoustic travel time tomography was applied by measuring the travel time at defined propagation paths between several sound sources and receivers. The resulting sound speed were used to obtain estimates of the meteorological parameters. A measuring campaign was carried out at the test site in Lindenberg (DWD) to compare the acoustically derived data with conventional systems. These observations demonstrated that on one side the accuracy of the acoustic system is comparable with in-situ measurements and on the other side the temperature was particularly significant overestimated by the standard sensors, e.g. due to the radiation influence. / Die Akustische Laufzeittomographie wird als ein experimentelles Verfahren zur Sondierung meteorologischer Parameter, wie z.B. der Lufttemperatur und der horizontalen Windgeschwindigkeit, vorgestellt. Dieses bodengebundene Fernerkundungsverfahren nutzt die horizontale Ausbreitung von Schallwellen in der atmosphärischen Grenzschicht. Hier wird das Verfahren der Laufzeittomographie angewendet, d.h. bei bekannter Weglänge wird die Ausbreitungszeit von ausgesendeten Schallsignalen zwischen mehreren Schallquellen und Empfängern gemessen. Die resultierenden Schallgeschwindigkeitsinformationen werden genutzt, um daraus die entsprechenden meteorologischen Parameter abzuleiten. Auf dem Gelände des Meteorologischen Observatoriums Lindenberg (DWD) wurde eine Messkampagne durchgeführt, um die akustischen Sondierungen mit konventionellen Systemen zu vergleichen. Die Auswertungen zeigen, dass einerseits die Genauigkeit der Akustischen Tomographie vergleichbar mit den konventionellen in-situ Messungen ist und andererseits, dass die Lufttemperatur aufgrund des Strahlungseinflusses bei Messungen mit den üblichen Sensoren zum Teil erheblich überschätzt wird.

Acoustic travel time tomography is presented as an experimental technique for remote monitoring of spatially averaged meteorological quantities, such as the virtual air temperature and the horizontal wind speed. This ground based remote sensing technique uses the nearly horizontal propagation of sound waves in the atmospheric surface layer. Here the acoustic travel time tomography was applied by measuring the travel time at defined propagation paths between several sound sources and receivers. The resulting sound speed was used to obtain estimates of the meteorological parameters. Several measuring campaigns were carried out to compare the acoustically derived data with conventional systems. The results of a cross validation during a field experiment in autumn 2000 are presented, where receivers at different heights above the ground were used. / Die Akustische Laufzeittomographie wird als ein Verfahren zur Fernerkundung räumlich gemittelter Größen, wie der virtuellen Temperatur und der horizontalen Windgeschwindigkeit, vorgestellt. Dieses bodengebundene Fernerkundungsverfahren beruht auf der annährend horizontalen Schallausbreitung in der atmosphärischen Grenzschicht. Das hier angewendete Verfahren der Laufzeittomographie beruht auf der Bestimmung der Ausbreitungszeit von Schallwellen zwischen mehreren Schallsendern und -empfängern. Die daraus abgeleitete Schallgeschwindigkeit liefert eine Information über die interessierenden meteorologischen Parameter. Eine Reihe von Feldexperimenten wurde durchgeführt mit dem Ziel, die akustisch bestimmten Größen mit denen konventioneller Verfahren zu vergleichen. Hier werden die Ergebnisse eines Vergleiches im Herbst 2000 präsentiert, bei dem die Schallempfänger in unterschiedlichen Höhen über dem Boden angebracht wurden.

Dans l'océan, les changements de température induisent des perturbations de la vitesse de propagation des ondes acoustiques. La tomographie acoustique océanique utilise les fluctuations de signaux acoustiques enregistrés pour cartographier ces perturbations de vitesse du son. Cette étude propose une méthode alternative utilisant la direction de propagation des ondes acoustiques (plutôt que les temps de propagation utilisés classiquement) pour imager un guide d'onde océanique peu profond (~100 m), petite échelle (1 à 10 km), avec une haute résolution spatiale (10 m horizontalement, 2 m en profondeur). Dans ce contexte, les ondes acoustiques basse fréquence (~1 kHz) à large bande spectrale (~1.5 kHz) se propagent selon des trajectoires multiples assimilables à des rayons géométriques épais spatialement. L'utilisation d'un couple d'antennes (émission/réception) et de la double formation de voies permet de séparer les signaux en provenance des différents trajets acoustiques et de mesurer leur : temps de propagation (TP), direction d'arrivée (DA) et direction de départ (DD). Dans l'hypothèse de faibles perturbations, les variations des TP, DA et DD sont reliées linéairement aux perturbations de la distribution de vitesse du son de manière analytique. Cette formulation, basée sur la physique de la diffraction de Born au 1er ordre, utilise des fonctions noyaux appelées : noyaux de sensibilité temps-angles (NSTA). Les méthodes classiques d'inversion permettent alors de retrouver les perturbations de vitesse à partir des variations de TP, DA et DD en utilisant les NSTA. Les méthodes développées ont été validées sur données simulées, puis appliquées à des données réelles d'expériences à échelle réduites réalisées dans la cuve ultrasonore de l'ISTerre, Grenoble. / In the ocean, temperature changes induce sound-speed perturbations. Ocean acoustic tomography uses the fluctuations of recorded acoustic signals, to map those sound-speed perturbations. To this end, sound-speed perturbations are classically related to the acoustic-wave travel-times measured on the records. This study suggests an alternative method to perform acoustic thermometry based on acoustic-wave propagation directions. It allows imaging a shallow-water waveguide (~100 m), at small scale (1 to 10 km), with high spatial resolution (10 m in range, 2 m in depth). In this context, wideband (~1.5 kHz) low frequency (~1 kHz) acoustic waves propagates along multiple paths similar to spatially « fat » geometrical rays. Using a pair of arrays (source/receiver) and the double-beamforming processing to separate acoustic signals coming from different paths and measure their: travel-time (TT), directions-of-arrival (DOA) and directions-of-departure (DOD). Under the hypothesis of small perturbations, TP, DOA and DOD variations are linearly related to sound-speed perturbations in an analytical way. This formulation based on Born's diffraction physics at the first order uses kernel functions called: the time-angle sensitivity kernels (T-A-SK). The T-A-SK model is then combined to classical inversion methods to retrieve sound-speed perturbations from TT, DOA and DOD variations. The methods developed here have been validated on simulated data, and applied on real small-scale data coming from the ultrasonic tank of the ISTerre, Grenoble.

En acoustique sous marine, les ´etudes sur les zones en eau peu profondes sontredevenues strat´egiques. Cette th`ese porte sur l’ ´etude de la s´eparation et la d´etectionde trajet dans le cadre des eaux peu profondes tomographie acoustique oc´eanique. Dansune premi´ere ´etape de notre travail, nous avons donn´e un bref aperc¸u sur les techniquesexistantes de traitement acoustique sous-marine afin de trouver la difficult´e toujoursconfront´es `a ce type de m´ethodes. Par cons´equent, nous avons fait une conclusion qu’ilest encore n´e cessaire d’am´eliorer la r´esolution de s´eparation afin de fournir des informationsplus utiles pour l’ ´etape inverse de la tomographie acoustique oc´eanique.Ainsi, une enquˆete sur les mthodes haute r´esolution est effecut´ee. Enfin, nous avonspropos´e une m´ethode `a haute r´esolution appel´ee lissage MUSICAL (MUSIC Active largeband), qui combine le lissage de fr´equence spatiale avec l’algorithme MUSICAL, pourune s´eparation efficace de trajet coh´erentes ou totalement corr´el´es. Cependant, cettem´ethode est bas´ee sur la connaissance a priori du nombre de trajet. Ainsi, nous introduisonsun test (exponential fitting test) (EFT) `a l’aide de courte longueur des ´echantillonspour d´eterminer le nombre de trajets. Ces deux m´ethodes sont appliqu´ees `a la fois desdonn´ees synth´etiques et les donn´ees r´eelles acquises dans un r´eservoir `a petite ´echelle.Leurs performances sont compar´ees avec les m´ethodes conventionnelles pertinentes. / As the studies on shallow-water acoustics became an active field again, this dissertationfocuses on studying the separation and detection of raypaths in the context of shallowwaterocean acoustic tomography. As a first step of our work, we have given a briefreview on the existing array processing techniques in underwater acoustics so as to findthe difficulties still faced by these methods. Consequently, we made a conclusion thatit is still necessary to improve the separation resolution in order to provide more usefulinformation for the inverse step of ocean acoustic tomography. Thus, a survey on highresolutionmethod is provided to discover the technique which can be extended to separatethe raypaths in our application background. Finally, we proposed a high-resolutionmethod called smoothing-MUSICAL (MUSIC Actif Large band), which combines thespatial-frequency smoothing with MUSICAL algorithm, for efficient separation of coherentor fully correlated raypaths. However, this method is based on the prior knowledgeof the number of raypaths. Thus, we introduce an exponential fitting test (EFT)using short-length samples to determine the number of raypaths. These two methodsare both applied to synthetic data and real data acquired in a tank at small scale. Theirperformances are compared with the relevant conventional methods respectively.

Originally developed in the 1970s for the optimal control of systems governed by partial differential equations, the adjoint method has found several successful applications, e.g. in meteorology with large-scale 3D or 4D atmospheric data assimilation schemes, for carbon cycle data assimilation in biogeochemistry and climate research, or in oceanographic modelling with efficient adjoint codes of ocean general circulation models.<p><p>Despite the variety of applications in these research fields, adjoint methods have only very recently drawn attention from the ocean acoustics community. In ocean acoustic tomography and geoacoustic inversion, where the inverse problem is to recover unknown acoustic properties of the water column and the seabed from acoustic transmission data, the solution approaches are typically based on travel time inversion or standard matched-field processing in combination with metaheuristics for global optimization. <p><p>In order to complement the adjoint schemes already in use in meteorology and oceanography with an ocean acoustic component, this thesis is concerned with the development of the adjoint of a full-field acoustic propagation model for shallow water environments. <p><p>In view of the increasing importance of global ocean observing systems such as the European Seas Observatory Network, the Arctic Ocean Observing System and Maritime Rapid Environmental Assessment (MREA) systems for defence and security applications, the adjoint of an ocean acoustic propagation model can become an integral part of a coupled oceanographic and acoustic data assimilation scheme in the future. <p><p>Given the acoustic pressure field measured on a vertical hydrophone array and a modelled replica field that is calculated for a specific parametrization of the environment, the developed adjoint model backpropagates the mismatch (residual) between the measured and predicted field from the receiver array towards the source.<p><p>The backpropagated error field is then converted into an estimate of the exact gradient of the objective function with respect to any of the relevant physical parameters of the environment including the sound speed structure in the water column and densities, compressional/shear sound speeds, and attenuations of the sediment layers and the sub-bottom halfspace. The resulting environmental gradients can be used in combination with gradient descent methods such as conjugate gradient, or Newton-type optimization methods tolocate the error surface minimum via a series of iterations. This is particularly attractive for monitoring slowly varying environments, where the gradient information can be used to track the environmental parameters continuously over time and space.<p><p>In shallow water environments, where an accurate treatment of the acoustic interaction with the bottom is of outmost importance for a correct prediction of the sound field, and field data are often recorded on non-fully populated arrays, there is an inherent need for observation over a broad range of frequencies. For this purpose, the adjoint-based approach is generalized for a joint optimization across multiple frequencies and special attention is devoted to regularization methods that incorporate additional information about the desired solution in order to stabilize the optimization process.<p><p>Starting with an analytical formulation of the multiple-frequency adjoint approach for parabolic-type approximations, the adjoint method is progressively tailored in the course of the thesis towards a realistic wide-angle parabolic equation propagation model and the treatment of fully nonlocal impedance boundary conditions. A semi-automatic adjoint generation via modular graph approach enables the direct inversion of both the geoacoustic parameters embedded in the discrete nonlocal boundary condition and the acoustic properties of the water column. Several case studies based on environmental data obtained in Mediterranean shallow waters are used in the thesis to assess the capabilities of adjoint-based acoustic inversion for different experimental configurations, particularly taking into account sparse array geometries and partial depth coverage of the water column. The numerical implementation of the approach is found to be robust, provided that the initial guesses are not too far from the desired solution, and accurate, and converges in a small number of iterations. During the multi-frequency optimization process, the evolution of the control parameters displays a parameter hierarchy which clearly relates to the relative sensitivity of the acoustic pressure field to the physical parameters. <p><p>The actual validation of the adjoint-generated environmental gradients for acoustic monitoring of a shallow water environment is based on acoustic and oceanographic data from the Yellow Shark '94 and the MREA '07 sea trials, conducted in the Tyrrhenian Sea, south of the island of Elba.<p> <p>Starting from an initial guess of the environmental control parameters, either obtained through acoustic inversion with global search or supported by archival in-situ data, the adjoint method provides an efficient means to adjust local changes with a couple of iterations and monitor the environmental properties over a series of inversions. <p><p>In this thesis the adjoint-based approach is used, e.g. to fine-tune up to eight bottom geoacoustic parameters of a shallow-water environment and to track the time-varying sound speed profile in the water column. <p><p>In the same way the approach can be extended to track the spatial water column and bottom structure using a mobile network of sparse arrays.<p><p>Work is currently being focused on the inclusion of the adjoint approach into hybrid optimization schemes or ensemble predictions, as an essential building block in a combined ocean acoustic data assimilation framework and the subsequent validation of the acoustic monitoring capabilities with long-term experimental data in shallow water environments. / Doctorat en Sciences de l'ingénieur / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

La présente thèse est consacrée à l'étude de quelques problèmes inverses pour l'équation de Helmholtz jauge-covariante, dont des cas particuliers comprennent l'équation de Schrödinger pour une particule élémentaire chargée dans un champ magnétique et l'équation d'onde harmonique en temps qui décrive des ondes acoustiques dans un fluide en écoulement. Ces problèmes ont comme motivation des applications dans des tomographies différentes, qui comprennent la tomographie acoustique, la tomographie qui utilise des particules élémentaires et la tomographie d'impédance électrique. En particulier, nous étudions des problèmes inverses motivés par des applications en tomographie acoustique de fluide en écoulement. Nous proposons des formules et équations qui permettent de réduire le problème de tomographie acoustique à un problème de diffusion inverse approprié. En suivant, nous développons un algorithme fonctionnel-analytique pour la résolution de ce problème de diffusion inverse. Cependant, en général, la solution de ce problème n'est unique qu'à une transformation de jauge appropriée près. À cet égard, nous établissons des formules qui permettent de se débarrasser de cette non-unicité de jauge et retrouver des paramètres du fluide, en mesurant des ondes acoustiques à des plusieurs fréquences. Nous présentons également des exemples des fluides qui ne sont pas distinguable dans le cadre de tomographie acoustique considérée. En suivant, nous considérons le problème de diffusion inverse sans information de phase. Ce problème est motivé par des applications en tomographie qui utilise des particules élémentaires, où seulement le module de l'amplitude de diffusion peut être mesuré facilement. Nous établissons des estimations dans l'espace de configuration pour les reconstructions sans phase de type Borne, qui sont requises pour le développement des méthodes de diffusion inverse précises. Finalement, nous considérons le problème de détermination d'une surface de Riemann dans le plan projectif à partir de son bord. Ce problème survient comme une partie du problème de Dirichlet-Neumann inverse pour l'équation de Laplace sur une surface inconnue, qui est motivé par des applications en tomographie d'impédance électrique. / This work is devoted to study of some inverse problems for the gauge-covariant Helmholtz equation, whose particular cases include the Schrödinger equation for a charged elementary particle in a magnetic field and the time-harmonic wave equation describing sound waves in a moving fluid. These problems are mainly motivated by applications in different tomographies, including acoustic tomography, tomography using elementary particles and electrical impedance tomography. In particular, we study inverse problems motivated by applications in acoustic tomography of moving fluid. We present formulas and equations which allow to reduce the acoustic tomography problem to an appropriate inverse scattering problem. Next, we develop a functional-analytic algorithm for solving this inverse scattering problem. However, in general, the solution to the latter problem is unique only up to an appropriate gauge transformation. In this connection, we give formulas and equations which allow to get rid of this gauge non-uniqueness and recover the fluid parameters, by measuring acoustic fields at several frequencies. We also present examples of fluids which are not distinguishable in this acoustic tomography setting. Next, we consider the inverse scattering problem without phase information. This problem is motivated by applications in tomography using elementary particles, where only the absolute value of the scattering amplitude can be measured relatively easily. We give estimates in the configuration space for the phaseless Born-type reconstructions, which are needed for the further development of precise inverse scattering algorithms. Finally, we consider the problem of determination of a Riemann surface in the complex projective plane from its boundary. This problem arises as a part of the inverse Dirichlet-to-Neumann problem for the Laplace equation on an unknown 2-dimensional surface, and is motivated by applications in electrical impedance tomography.