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Acoustic Observatories for Ocean Tomography: geometries and multi-array Matched-Field Tomography

C. Soares, csoares@ualg.pt
P. Felisberto, pfelis@ualg.pt
S.M. Jesus, sjesus@ualg.pt
ISR, University of Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal

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Ref.: Oceans'11, Santander, Spain, June 2011.

Abstract
The present study proposes an MFT algorithm for directly estimating a two-dimensional range-dependent or three-dimensional temperature field. The acoustic system has multiple acoustic emitters and receiver arrays according to a given geometry. The acoustic signal is emitted from one emitter at a time, and collected at multiple receiver arrays. The MFT method is adapted to iteratively produce parameter estimates for each individual environmental cell. To accomplish this, an MF processor based on a multi-array acoustic data model is considered, in order to account for acoustic data collected simultaneously at several acoustic arrays.


Acknowledgement: This work was funded by the European Union Sixth Framework Program (FP6) under NoE Esonet.

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