Onboard Acoustic Data-Processing for the Statistical Analysis of Array Beam-Noise

摘要

A software package for onboard acoustic data-processing in the statistical analysis of array beam noise has been implemented on a mini-computer system. The package produces products both to assess data quality and to measure the noise-field's statistical characteristics. Many of the products are sufficiently general to have application to other types of data or to satisfy other objectives. The various outputs are described and illustrated by results from simulated measurements of the ambient noise by a towed array. The simplified run procedure is included to facilitate the use of the software package by the analyst. (Author)