DS4004 Underwater Acoustics Signal Processing Syllabus:

DS4004 Underwater Acoustics Signal Processing Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

 To understand the characteristics of Underwater Channel
 To understand the principles of SONAR
 To understand the challenges in underwater signal processing

UNIT I UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC CHANNEL

Underwater Channel Characterization – Sound Transmission Losses-Acoustic Characteristics of surface layer-Ambient Noise in the ocean- Correlation properties of Ambient Noise

UNIT II SONAR

Basics of SONAR- correlation and ambiguities-Wideband Synthetic Aperture SONAR processing Discrete Spatial arrays-Beam steering- Target Angle Estimation –Array Shading.

UNIT III TARGET DETECTION

Passive Acoustic signatures of Ships and Submarines-Target strength for Active Systems Hypothesis testing- receiver operating Characteristics-estimation of signal Parameters

UNIT IV STATISTICAL PROCESSING & ADAPTIVE SPATIAL FILTERING

Monostatic Sounding of Single point Targets-Target strength estimation from Echo ensemble Optimum Filter for Maximum SNR-High Resolution Beam Forming .

UNIT V UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION

Underwater BioTelemetry System -system Design principle-Speech Coding and Decoding Transmission and Detection of speech.

TOTAL:45 PERIODS

COURSE OUTCOMES:

CO1:recognize the characteristics of Underwater Channel
CO2: design underwater signal processing systems
CO3: understand the principles of SONAR
CO4: analyze the performance of underwater signal processing systems.
CO5: analyze the performance of under water acoustic communication

REFERENCES:

1. Robert S.H. Istepanian and Milica Stojanovic, Underwater Acoustic Digital signal
2. processing & communication system, Kluwer academic Publisher, 2002
3. William S. Burdic, Underwater Acoustic Systems, Prentice Hall Inc., 2002