Research on strong reverberation suppression for high resolution active sonar

Resolution enhancement of active sonar can suppress the reverberation.While it also makes the envelope data distribution diverge from Rayleigh distribution to K-distribution.The stronger scattering speckles,the heavier of the K-distribution tails.The envelope amplitudes of these strong scattering speckles are usually very big.As the interfering target,the strong reverberation decreases the performances of the background power level estimation and the target detection.The fuzzy statistical normalization processing(FSNP) is introduced to suppress the strong reverberation firstly in this paper.Then how the strong reverberation and the FSNP affect the distribution of K-distributed sonar data is studied.The influence on the constant false alarm rate(CFAR) detection performance caused by the strong reverberation and the FSNP is also simulated and analyzed.Performance comparisons between the CFAR detector based on FSNP and the conventional CFAR detectors are carried out.The simulation results show that the strong reverberation can make the shape parameter of the interfering K-distributed data become smaller than that of the original K-distributed data.While the FSNP can suppress the strong reverberation,increase the shape parameter value,and improve the performance of the shape parameter estimator and the CFAR detector.

Wideband reverberation suppression in beams domain based on angular distribution index

Based on the properties of wideband source’s spatial spread,an algorithm for reverberation suppression in beams domain is proposed.In an effective observation range,a compact bank of receiving spatial beams is operated to transform the data from element domain to beam domain.Angular Distribution Index(ADI) is obtained by comparing to a reference value which is computed by Monte Carlo Integration.ADI decreases with a stronger target echo.Hence,choosing an appropriate threshold of ADI,the target echo can be separated from reverberation by cutting off the high AD components.The filter is compatible with the procedures of beamforming and detection for the current sonar.The computation complexity of the filter is low.The relationships between ADI and frequency,bandwidth,signal-reverberation ratio,are illustrated by a simulation example.The processing results based on the lake-trial and sea-trial data show that reverberation can be significantly suppressed,and threshold choosing for wideband ADI filter is fault tolerant.