Quiet source acoustic measurement system

Author

Cox, Terrance S. ; Kraszewski, Raymond J.

Author_Institution

Acoustic Acquisition and Anal. Div., Naval Underwater Warfare. Center, Keyport, WA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

13-16 Sep 1994

Abstract

The Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Keyport is developing a ship deployed data acquisition system for collecting acoustic data from quiet vehicles. This system consists of a low frequency line array, a high frequency line array, environmental sensors, an array electronics buoy, the telemetry link, a surface interface unit, and a controlling computer. The low frequency line array was designed to operate in a band of 100 Hz to 6 kHz with a beam width of 10°. The high frequency line array operates in a band up to 48 kHz. The maximum operating depth for the system is 500 m. The electronics are capable of acquiring data from 130 channels simultaneously with each channel being recorded for post acquisition data processing and analysis. In this paper, the electrical, mechanical, and acoustic designs of the system are discussed along with the software algorithms used to process the data

Keywords

acoustic signal processing; acoustic transducer arrays; computerised instrumentation; data acquisition; hydrophones; marine systems; military computing; military systems; underwater sound; 100 Hz to 6 kHz; 5 to 40 kHz; 500 m; Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division; Transparent Asynchronous Transmitter Interface chip; acoustic data collection; acoustic design; array electronics buoy; controlling computer; electrical design; environmental sensors; high frequency line array; low frequency line array; mechanical design; operating depth; post acquisition data processing; quiet source acoustic measurement system; quiet vehicles; ship deployed data acquisition system; software algorithms; surface interface unit; telemetry link; Acoustic measurements; Acoustic sensors; Control systems; Data acquisition; Frequency; Marine vehicles; Sensor arrays; Sensor systems; Telemetry; Underwater acoustics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '94. 'Oceans Engineering for Today's Technology and Tomorrow's Preservation.' Proceedings

Conference_Location

Brest

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2056-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1994.364069

Filename

364069