The Inverse Fast Field Program (IFFP): An Application to the Determination of the Acoustic Parameters of the Ocean Bottom.

摘要

The problem of estimating the acoustic field produced by a point source located in an environment which is arbitrarily stratified with depth only has received considerable attention. Various models exist which provide reasonable results provided sufficient information about the environment and source characteristic is available. This paper is concerned with solving for the inverse of this problem, i.e., information about the environment, in particular the impedance at the ocean-bottom interface is sought from a knowledge of the received acoustic field and the source which produced it. The theoretical formulation of the scheme is presented and its numerical implementation is discussed and illustrated for three examples of successive orders of environmental complexity. (Author)