Target tracking using acoustic signatures of light-weight aircraft propeller noise

Author

Jianfei Tong ; Yu-Hen Hu ; Ming Bao ; Wei Xie

Author_Institution

Inst. of Acoust., Beijing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

6-10 July 2013

Firstpage

225

Lastpage

229

Abstract

Acoustic signatures of aircraft engine and propeller noise are investigated in the context of target tracking. Harmonics in spectrograms of light airplanes collected by a stationary microphone array on the ground are analyzed. Using a model of Doppler frequency shifts, the target speed and height may be estimated from the spectrogram of recorded acoustic signal. These initial results highlight the potential of using the acoustic signatures for precision moving target detection and tracking.

Keywords

Doppler shift; acoustic noise; acoustic signal detection; array signal processing; autonomous aerial vehicles; object detection; propellers; target tracking; Doppler frequency shift model; acoustic signatures; aircraft engine; light airplanes; lightweight aircraft propeller noise; precision moving target detection; recorded acoustic signal; spectrograms; stationary microphone array; target tracking; Acoustics; Doppler effect; Frequency estimation; Harmonic analysis; Interference; Spectrogram; Destructive-Interference frequency; Doppler model frequency; STFT spectrum; acoustic signature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal and Information Processing (ChinaSIP), 2013 IEEE China Summit & International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ChinaSIP.2013.6625333

Filename

6625333