Underwater Acoustic Source Positioning by Isotropic and Vector Hydrophone Combination

• Published in: Journal of sound and vibration Vol. 501; p. 116031
• Main Authors: Kavoosi, Vali, Dehghani, Mohammad Javad, Javidan, Reza
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier Ltd 09.06.2021; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Acoustic Vector Hydrophone; Acoustics; Algorithms; Background noise; Direction of arrival; Directivity; DOA Estimation; Global positioning systems; GPS; Heterogeneous Measurements; Hydrophones; Noise; Noise propagation; RSS; Signal processing; Signal strength; Sound sources; Underwater acoustics; Underwater Positioning; Heterogeneous Measurements; DOA Estimation; RSS; Underwater Positioning; Acoustic Vector Hydrophone

•A positioning system containing an isotropic and a vector hydrophone is proposed.•The DOA is estimated by space-frequency processing of the vector hydrophone's data.•The range is estimated based on the received signal strength and DOA measurements.•A novel noise power estimation algorithm is p...