Fiscal Year	2018
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Physics
Investigator(s)	Smith, Kevin B.
Sponsor	Office of Naval Research (Navy)
Summary	The goals of this work are varied, but will focus on the assessment of acoustic vector sensor data collection from various platforms and subsequent processing results. Platforms to be utilized include autonomous buoy platforms (drifting or moored, self-recording, self-processing), while also investigating the performance of bottom-moored systems, which may include cabled observatories. Specific goals include effective demonstrations of data collection from multiple locations, investigations of standard and adaptive signal processing of acoustic vector sensor data for determining source direction (particularly for low SNR signals), and evaluation of data fusion from different platforms for source localization. The results of the analysis will be used to assess system performance, flow and platform noise limitations, networking efficiencies, and to aid in the development of future joint, operational, or training scenarios.
Keywords	acoustic vector sensors distributed systems target tracking
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