Diversity in multistatic active sonar

Author

Mozzone, L. ; Bongi, S. ; Filocca, F.

Author_Institution

NATO SACLANT Undersea Res. Centre, La Spezia, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

1058

Abstract

A multistatic network of autonomous active transmitters and receivers, such as deployable underwater surveillance systems, often provides multiple contacts of the same target. The present paper examines the effects of receiver diversity (“spatial diversity”) on a multistatic system, where three independent, spatially separated sonar receivers detect the same target, insonified by the same FM or CW pulse, and the contacts are merged together after detection

Keywords

sensor fusion; sonar signal processing; sonar tracking; surveillance; target tracking; Monte Carlo simulations; SNR series of echoes; autonomous active receivers; autonomous active transmitters; background noise; deployable underwater surveillance systems; detection performance; false contacts; frequency diversity; inter-receiver cross-correlation; multi-ping detection; multistatic active sonar; multistatic network; performance enhancement; probability of detection; probability of false alarm; rapidly varying components; receiver diversity; receiver operating characteristic curves; reverberation; single frequency CW pulse; single-ping detection; slowly varying components; spatial diversity; spatially separated sonar receivers; stepped CW; target multiple contacts; time diversity; towed echo repeater; Frequency diversity; Independent component analysis; Probability; Repeaters; Reverberation; Signal analysis; Signal to noise ratio; Sonar detection; Surveillance; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS '99 MTS/IEEE. Riding the Crest into the 21st Century

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5628-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.1999.805911

Filename

805911