Abstract
An overview is presented of the modal mapping experiment (MOMAX), which was conducted in March 1997 in the vicinity of the East Coast STRATAFORM site. Both fixed and moving source configurations were used to transmit several pure tones in the frequency range 50–300 Hz. The magnitudes and phases of these signals were recorded on several freely drifting buoys, each containing a hydrophone, GPS and acoustic navigation, and radio telemetry. High-resolution, three-dimensional measurements of the sound field were made out to ranges of 10 km and illustrate the influence of the laterally varying seabed, measured with a chirp sonar system. The precision navigation also enabled the creation of a two-dimensional, synthetic aperture planar array, parallel to the ocean surface. The pressure field data measured on the array were transformed into the wave number domain, where the lateral variability of the waveguide manifests itself in the spatially evolving spectral content of the modal field. Finally, the phases of the measured signals show remarkable stability and regularity, even in the context of complex, multimodal fields. This behavior can be exploited to make accurate estimates of the relative source/receiver speed from measurements of the time rate-of-change of the phase. [Work supported by ONR.]
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