Inverse Problems in Underwater Acoustics [Hardcover]

This volume provides recent and useful results for bottom recognition, inverse scattering in acoustic wave guides and ocean acoustic tomography, plus a discussion of some of the new algorithms, such as those related to matched-field processing, which have recently been used for inverting experimental data.

Inverse problems have a long history in acoustics, optics, electromagnetics and geophysics, but only recently have the signals provided by ocean acoustic sensors become numerous and sophisticated enough to allow for realistic identification of the ocean parameters. Acoustic signals propagating for long distances in the water column and reflections of underwater sound from the ocean boundaries provide novel problems of interpretation and inversion. The chapters in this volume discuss some of the contemporary aspects of these problems. They provide recent and useful results for bottom recognition, inverse scattering in acoustic wave guides, and ocean acoustic tomography, as well as a discussion of some of the new algorithms, such as those related to matched-field processing, that have recently been used for inverting experimental data. Each chapter is by a noted expert in the field and represents the state of the art. The chapters have all been edited to provide a uniform format and level of presentation.Preface by editors / 1. What we are inverting for? / 2. Freeze bath inversion for estimation of geoacoustic parameters / 3. Tomographic inversion on multiple receivers/arrays from multiple sources for the estimation of shallow water bottom parameters. 4. Non-linear optimization techniques in geoacoustic tomography. 5. Estimating the impulse response of the ocean: correlation vs. deconvolution. / 6. Regularized inversion for towed array shape estimation. / 7. Mode coupling effects in acoustic thermometry of the Arctic Ocean. / 8. On the characterization of objects in shallow water using rigorous inversion methods. / 9. Inverse boundary value probl“