Bi-Static Target Scattering Characteristics for Detection and Classification of Buried and Proud Targets.

摘要

Develop and understand the 3-dimensional target scattering characteristics that will enable optimum search strategies to be developed for multi-static autonomous detection of buried and proud targets. To measure and develop an understanding of the 3-D scattering and structural response from targets resting on the bottom, and/or partially, or completely buried in the bottom. Using these scattering results, NRL will work with MIT and NURC to verify the environmental acoustic approximations that have been used in the new hybrid target-modeling framework developed by MIT. This hybrid modeling technique provides an alternative framework for modeling the complex scattering fields observed from elastic targets resting on, or buried in, the ocean sediment. These results will unlimitedly be used by SWAMSI 08 to develop optimal search strategies for autonomous multi-static detection of buried and proud targets.