Travel-time tomography in shallow water: experimental demonstration at an ultrasonic scale.
J Acoust Soc Am
; 130(3): 1232-41, 2011 Sep.
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| ID: mdl-21895066
ABSTRACT
Acoustic tomography in a shallow ultrasonic waveguide is demonstrated at the laboratory scale between two source-receiver arrays. At a 1/1,000 scale, the waveguide represents a 1.1-km-long, 52-m-deep ocean acoustic channel in the kilohertz frequency range. Two coplanar arrays record the transfer matrix in the time domain of the waveguide between each pair of source-receiver transducers. A time-domain, double-beamforming algorithm is simultaneously performed on the source and receiver arrays that projects the multi-reflected acoustic echoes into an equivalent set of eigenrays, which are characterized by their travel times and their launch and arrival angles. Travel-time differences are measured for each eigenray every 0.1 s when a thermal plume is generated at a given location in the waveguide. Travel-time tomography inversion is then performed using two forward models based either on ray theory or on the diffraction-based sensitivity kernel. The spatially resolved range and depth inversion data confirm the feasibility of acoustic tomography in shallow water. Comparisons are made between inversion results at 1 and 3 MHz with the inversion procedure using ray theory or the finite-frequency approach. The influence of surface fluctuations at the air-water interface is shown and discussed in the framework of shallow-water ocean tomography.
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Colección:
01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Sonido
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Ultrasonido
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Agua
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Tomografía
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Acoust Soc Am
Año:
2011
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Article
País de afiliación:
Francia