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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:GATECH/oai:smartech.gatech.edu:1853/39640 |
| Date | 26 January 2011 |
| Creators | Anderson, Shaun David |
| Publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Source Sets | Georgia Tech Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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