Sound propagation in very shallow water is one of the issues of the ocean acoustic. Because of close distance to the shore and short range to the bottom, the building of sound propagation model in shallow water is much more difficult than in deep water. Even though, the increasing needs of upper-sea construction engineering and near-shore surveillance make this subject more and more important. This study is to build a high sensitive underwater recording system, use it to collect data and to find out which parameters affect the sound propagation in very shallow water most. The study contains underwater recording system construction, shallow water recording experiment and comparison of OASES simulation results and the collective data. The system is constructed with two ITC6050C hydrophones and data acquisition devices. After several tests of reliability, the system is put in the sea area about 10 m depth. And the two hydrophones were moored 1 m above the bottom and 2.5 m below sea surface separately. The experiment use a moving fishing boat motor noise as sound source and the experimental results are shown as the spectrogram of sound field. The computer simulation uses OASES modules to simulate the experimental area and Pekeris waveguide propagation as the theoretical environment of very shallow water. By comparing the simulation results and the collective data ,the study finds out that the major parameters of sound propagation in the experimental area are the pressure sound speed and the depth of the sound source.

The purpose of this study explores the sound propagation in very shallow water to understand the environment quality of the Si-Tzi Marine Test Field. Very shallow water acoustics characterized by that sound wave will have a dramatic interaction between the bottoms and the propagation of wave and bottom with a high degree of correlation. Those types of environment are concentrated in the west coast of Taiwan. Analysis of actual acoustic data from the ocean obtain and to use "OASES" simulation that an applied acoustic tool. Expect to understand the phenomenon of water acoustic propagation in the very shallow. The Si-Tzi marine test field had detailed environmental information by previously study. In experiment process, the hydrophone "iTC-6050c" receiving broadband sound source "UW350" signal. The use of personal computer with DAQ card for data acquisition and control. The source in the research vessel was moored 20 m below sea, at the same time to launch three consecutive single (frequency signal 350 Hz, 800 Hz, and 1250 Hz). Reception of signals in order to drift the way. Measured at different frequencies in very shallow water of the transmission loss. The results showed that the results of the current measurement and simulation in line with the follow-up study will be measured "transmission loss" to do to Inversion for geoacoustic parameters in very shallow water. Then obtained "geoacoustic parameters" Comparison of sea-bed surface sampling results. Confirmation "geoacoustic inversion technique" is correct.