Target spatial feature abstraction basing on beam forming

Underwater target recognition is very difficult because of the complexity of the ocean environment. The existing recognition technologies are mostly based on time domain, frequency domain, and time-frequency domain. Beam forming technology is a method of target recognition that has been researched and has developed rapidly in recent years. This paper applies beam forming and spatial spectrum analysis technology to an underwater echo signal in order to capture target echo and highlight spot and dimension features in the time-space domain. Image processing is used to extract the dimension and experimental data also verifies the feasibility of this method of beam forming.