A system for remote access to deployed source and receive acoustic arrays

Author

Skinner, J.D. ; Hodgkiss, William S.

Author_Institution

Marine Phys. Lab., Scripps Instn. of Oceanogr., San Diego, CA, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

23-27 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A new communication and control system has been developed at the Marine Physical Laboratory (MPL) to provide remote control and data access for acoustic transducer arrays. This system was specifically designed to interface to the MPL Reconfigurable Autonomous Vertical Arrays (RAVAs) and Source Receive Arrays (SRAs). These communication systems provide a significant expansion of the capabilities of the existing transducer arrays by allowing for low power sleep modes, remote control of system parameters such as sample rate and channel gain, and remote access to data files for near real time processing and system analysis. The technical details of the system components and electronics are provided, as well as a description of the various deployment configurations. In addition, the use of these systems during the 2013 Target and Reverberation Experiment (TREX13) near Panama City, Florida is described and specific details of system performance are provided.

Keywords

acoustic transducer arrays; telecontrol; 2013 Target and Reverberation Experiment; Florida; MPL reconfigurable autonomous vertical arrays; Panama City; SRA; TREX13; acoustic transducer arrays; channel gain; low power sleep mode; marine physical laboratory; remote access; remote control; source acoustic arrays deployment; source receive arrays; Acoustics; Arrays; Global Positioning System; Marine vehicles; Modems; Ports (Computers); Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Oceans - San Diego, 2013

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Type

conf

Filename

6740951