Title
Geoacoustic inversion on the New England Mud Patch using warping and dispersion curves of high-order modes
Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
5-1-2018
Abstract
This paper presents single receiver geoacoustic inversion of a combustive sound source signal, recorded during the 2017 Seabed Characterization Experiment on the New England Mud Patch, in an area where water depth is around 70 m. There are two important features in this study. First, it is shown that high-order modes can be resolved and estimated using warping (up to mode number 18 over the frequency band 20-440 Hz). However, it is not possible to determine mode numbers from the data, so that classical inversion methods that require mode identification cannot be applied. To solve this issue, an inversion algorithm that jointly estimates geoacoustic properties and identifies mode number is proposed. It is successfully applied on a range-dependent track, and provides a reliable range-average estimation of geoacoustic properties of the mud layer, an important feature of the seabed on the experimental area.
Publication Title, e.g., Journal
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume
143
Issue
5
Citation/Publisher Attribution
Bonnel, Julien, Ying Tsong Lin, Dimitrios Eleftherakis, John A. Goff, Stan Dosso, Ross Chapman, James H. Miller, and Gopu R. Potty. "Geoacoustic inversion on the New England Mud Patch using warping and dispersion curves of high-order modes." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 143, 5 (2018): EL405-EL411. doi: 10.1121/1.5039769.