Motion effect modeling in multipath configuration using warping based lag-Doppler filtering

The estimation of the impulse response (IR) of a propagation channel is necessary for a large number of acoustic applications: underwater communication, detection and localization, etc. Basically, it informs us about the distortions of a transmitted signal in one channel. This operation is usually subject to additional distortions due to the motion of the transmitter-channel-receiver configuration. This paper points on the effects of the motion while estimating the IR by matching filtering between the transmitted and the received signals and introduces a new motion compensation method. Knowing the transmitted signal, the ldquoapparentrdquo speed of each propagation path can be estimated using wideband ambiguity function. Indeed, some interference appears in the wideband ambiguity plane because of the multipath propagation. A warping-based lag-Doppler filtering method is proposed allowing us to accurately estimate the IR of the channel.