Abstract
The ground waves of explosive sounds exhibit strong dispersion in shallow water waveguides. Their travel time and amplitude are related to the geo-acoustic properties in the seabed and could be utilized to construct cost functions for geo-acoustic inversion. Following the analysis of the Airy phase [Wan et al., JASA, 143, EL199-205, (2018)], this research focuses on the extraction and utilization of ground waves, which propagate at frequencies below the corresponding Airy frequency. First, the ground waves of low order modes are identified in the received signals from explosive SUS charges deployed at various depths/ranges and recorded by vertical line arrays during the series of Seabed Characterization Experiments (SBCEX) conducted in the New England continental shelf and slope region. Then, the extracted ground waves, showing strong dispersive characteristics in a bandwidth of a few Hertz (i.e., between cut-off frequency and Airy frequency), are fed to a proposed inversion algorithm to obtain the estimated geo-acoustic parameters. Finally, the advantage of using ground waves rather than water waves is discussed and a physical explanation is provided. [Work supported by ONR Ocean Acoustics.]
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