Tracking of multiple surface vessels based on passive acoustic underwater arrays

This paper introduces an approach to localize and track an unknown number of non-cooperative surface vessels based on passive acoustic sensing of their noise radiated underwater. Time-Difference of Arrival (TDOA) measurements are extracted from pairs of hydrophones, and a recently introduced Bayesia...

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Published inThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Vol. 147; no. 2; pp. EL87 - EL92
Main Authors Tesei, Alessandra, Meyer, Florian, Been, Robert
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.02.2020
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Summary:This paper introduces an approach to localize and track an unknown number of non-cooperative surface vessels based on passive acoustic sensing of their noise radiated underwater. Time-Difference of Arrival (TDOA) measurements are extracted from pairs of hydrophones, and a recently introduced Bayesian framework for multi-object tracking is employed to detect and track vessels from TDOA measurements. Results based on data from a three-dimensional compact hydrophone array towed by an autonomous vehicle confirm that non-cooperative surface vessels can be detected and tracked.
ISSN:0001-4966
1520-8524
DOI:10.1121/10.0000598