Signal Processing For Ocean Tomography With Moving Ships

In ocean acoustic tomography, maximal length binary shift- register sequences, m-sequences, are used to modulate acoustic carriers to achieve high average power and good time and Doppler resolution. To date, the underwater transmitters and receivers have been in fixed positions, and signal processing has consisted of demodulation followed by factor inverse filtering. Ocean tomography now is being extended to include the use of moving, ship-towed, transmitters and receivers, where signal processing must account for Doppler time and frequency resealing. This paper describes the signal demodulation and processing methods developed for moving ship tomography and presents illustrative results.