Application of Parametric Acoustic Source to Fish Finding

Parametric 음원의 어탐이용에 관한 고찰

As the basic research for the application of a parametric acoustic source to fish finding, the characteristics of beam patterns and parametric gains of the acoustic source were investigated and target strengths of fish, grey mullet, with the acoustic source were measured. The mean primary frequency of the acoustic source was 200KHz and the produced sounds by difference-frequencies were 5KHz, 10KHz, 16KHz and 20KHz. For measurement of target strength in yaw (coronal) plane of fish the to be target was 34cm in length, the pulse duration of the source was 0.3m/sec and the difference frequency was 10KHz in consideration of the length of fish and of parametric gain of the acoustic source. The results obtained are as follow: 1. Beam widths(down 3 dB) of the parametric acoustic source excited at frequencies of 5KHz, 10KHz, 16KHz, and 20KHz were 4.3$^{\circ}$, 2.2$^{\circ}$, 3.0$^{\circ}$ and 2.5$^{\circ}$ respectively. 2. Parametric gains of the parametric acoustic source excited at frequencies of 5KHz, 10KHz, 16KHz and 20KHz were -41 dB, -45 dB, -60 dB and -68 dB respectively. 3. Target strengths of a fish in head and tail aspect using the parametric acoustic source were 5 dB lower than those using 200KHz single frequency sound, but those in side aspect were similar. 4. Target strengths of two or three fish with the parametric acoustic source were 1-3 dB lower than those in head and tail aspect using 200KHz single frequency sound.

Parametric 음원을 어탐에 응용하기 위한 기초연구로써 본 실험에서는 parametric 음원의 특성을 조사하고 이 음원으로 어체에 대한 표적 강도를 측정하여 그 결과를 200KHz의 단일주파수 음원으로 측정한 결과와 비교.검토하였다. 그 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1. 200KHz인 단일주파수로 구동할 때의 지향각은 5.0$^{\circ}$였고, parametric 음원의 주파수가 5KHz, 10KHz, 16KHz, 20KHz일 때의 지향각은 각각 4.3$^{\circ}$, 2.2$^{\circ}$, 3.0$^{\circ}$, 2.5$^{\circ}$로서 주파수 저감비가 감소할수록 지향각이 예리하였으며 부엽은 전혀 나타나지 않았다. 2. parametric 음원의 주파수가 5KHz, 10KHz, 16KHz, 20KHz일 때의 음파변환효율은 각각 0.9%(Parametric 이득은 -41dB), 0.55%(parametric 이득은 -45dB), 0.1%(parametric 이득은 -60 dB), 0.04%(parametric 이득은 -68 dB)로 주파수 저감비가 감소할수록 음파변환효율은 급격히 낮아졌다. 3. parametric 음원으로 측정한 어체의 표적강도는 200KHz의 단일주파수 음원으로 측정한 표적강도에 비하여 단일어체일 때는 머리부분과 꼬리부분에서 5 dB씩 낮았으며 어체수가 2~3마리 일때는 머리부분과 꼬리부분에서 1~3 dB 정도 낮았으나 측면부분은 비슷하였다