Acoustic mapping system using tomographic reconstruction

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 4995011
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07409924

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A technique for the non-intrusive position determination of one or more natural or artificial acoustic transmitters (S1, S2, S3) in marine or terrestrial environments by processing data from five or more receivers (R1, R2, R3, R4, R5) distributed in the area. The data processing includes cross correlation (24) of receiver data to determine differences in acoustic data travel times (MTTD) and tomographic reconstruction (16) to determine transmitter position as well as receiver position (42), wind or current (40) and sound speed or temperature fields (44) and errors (41) associated with all of the above. Accuracy can be greatly enhanced by use of calibration transmissions at receiver or other known or unknown position locations. Position and wind, sound speed and error fields may conveniently be displayed by computer generated maps (18, 20, 22, 43).

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WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE WOODS HOLE MASSACHUSETTSMA

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Spiesberger, John L North Falmouth, MA 3 113

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