Abstract
A four-element three-dimensional hydrophone array has been deployed on the Strait of Georgia node of the Victoria Experimental Network Under the Sea (VENUS) since March 2020. To the present, continuous pressure time series data from the four sensors has been streamed ashore and made available by Ocean Networks Canada. A technique for classifying and partitioning ambient noise using the three-dimensional noise coherence function is applied to the recordings. The noise coherence (directionality) due to wind generated surface noise and individual ships is analytically modelled using measured environmental inputs such as the time varying sound speed profile and sediment properties from the measurement site and compared with the observation. The theoretical coherence curve is computed by mixing the contributing sources until a best-fit is found. Since the wind generated surface noise coherence is stable and independent of the source effective sound power per unit area, the contribution of ship noise to the soundscape can be exactly determined. Applying this algorithm to the long-term data set allows the relative contribution of ship noise to the soundscape in the region to summarized succinctly. [Research supported by ONR.]
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