Acquisition of ice properties using mechanically generated impulses

A practical method and sensor system for ice depth profiling has been developed. Experiments were performed in real-time with developed high sensitivity, biaxial, wide bandwidth accelerometers (10 KHz bandwidth), which encompassed a high sampling rate of 200 Kb/sec/channel with a dynamic range of 36 dB. The implementation of signal processing produced a seismic and resonant signature. Initially repeated results revealed an accurate correlation between ice depth to its impulse response. The required velocity was determined using the time of arrival and the cross-correlation between transducers. Theoretical analysis has indicated that the system will be capable of resolving values close to the theoretically calculated error of less than 6%