Space-time processing for suppression of bottom reverberation
The major problem for sonars operating in shallow water is the detection of low Doppler targets in the presence of severe bottom reverberation. For a modern sonar with an azimuthally omni-directional transmitter; the Doppler of bottom reverberation is proportional to /spl nu/cos /spl theta/ where /spl nu/ is the speed of the sonar platform and /spl theta/ is measured from the bow or heading direction. For a towed array receiver, reverberation of various Doppler arriving on sidelobes limits the effectiveness of advanced waveforms. This smearing of sidelobe reverberation over a Doppler range of /spl plusmn//spl nu/ makes it difficult to detect targets with speeds less than that of the sonar platform. Standard adaptive beamforming algorithms are ineffective due to the conflict between desire for narrow frequency bins for good Doppler confinement and wide frequency bins for rapid convergence. We present space-time processing algorithms that overcome these difficulties and permit the detection of low Doppler targets from moving platforms.
Sparse sample matrix inversion with diagonal loading for reverberation suppression
The main problem of active sonar detection is that the reverberation has spatial and temporal two-dimensional coupling characteristic which is similar to clutters in airborne radar. This paper presents a sparse sample matrix inversion with diagonal loading (SSMI-DL) for reverberation suppression in active sonar. The proposed method transfers Pulse Doppler radar STAP processing techniques into active sonar application, which utilizes the inverse reverberation covariance matrix to obtain adaptive weights and avoids singular reverberation covariance matrix with diagonal loading due to limited available received data. Simulation results are provided to verify that the SSMI-DL is more effective for improving slowly moving target detection for CW pulse than the conventional methods.
Experimental study on ground vibration of blasting the boulder with tandem shaped charging warhead
Hazardous effects of blasting the boulder with the new breaking-blasting equipment-tandem shaped charging warhead are mainly air shock wave, seismic wave and blast slung shot. Blast-induced ground vibration is one of the inevitable effects and may cause substantial damage to nearby structures. Started from the formation process and mechanism of ground vibration to study the seismic wave, the research attained curve of vibration velocity of monitoring points by TC-4850 and carried out differential and fast Fourier transform analysis of the curve. And the results concluded that blasting vibration with tandem shaped charging warhead mainly comes from prime charge; the attenuation law can be predicted by Sadev’s Formula. Explosion vibration frequency range is 20-150 Hz, while with the increase of distance from the blasting center, blasting vibration intensity attenuates rapidly, vibration duration increases and vibration frequency gradually reduces. Compared with general rock blasting, its attenuation rate of blasting vibration is faster with higher frequency and smaller impact on buildings, but the harm effects should not be ignored for the special application environment.