Investigation of the Sources and Characteristics of the Noise Component inSeaMarc II Echo Signals

摘要

As is well known, the SeaMarc II towfish system was lost at sea during ascientific survey cruise in the Southern Ocean near the beginning of this project. Work was immediately begun on the design and construction of a replacement mapping system to be called HAWAII MR1. The signal processing for this system was designed based on the crude and incomplete information obtained earlier from one short series of noise measurements that had been made on SeaMarc II with experimental modifications. In the new MR1 system, the recorded signal consisted of digital, complex samples of the acoustic echo (i.e. in-phase and quadrature components, referenced to transmitter sinusoidal waveform). The entire duration of the echo signal was recorded, including the entire water column