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On the sign of the adaptive passive fathometer impulse response
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On the sign of the adaptive passive fathometer impulse response

James Traer, Peter Gerstoft, H Song and William Hodgkiss
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol.126(4), pp.1657-1658
2009
DOI: 10.1121/1.3206696
PMID: 19813779

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Abstract

Harrison [ J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125 , 3511-3513 ( 2009 )] presented a mathematical explanation for a sign-inversion induced to the passive fathometer response by minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming. Here a concise mathematical formulation is offered, which decomposes the cross-spectral density matrix into coherent and incoherent components and allows the matrix inversion to be obtained exactly by eigendecomposition. This shows that, in the region containing the bottom reflection, the MVDR fathometer response is identical to that obtained with conventional processing multiplied by a negative factor.

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