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Performance Analysis of the Pre-Whitening Matched Filter in Shallow Water Environment

천해환경에서 선-백색화 정합필터의 성능 분석

  • Yu, Seog-Kun (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Kim, Jeong-Goo (Computer Science and Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Joo, Eon-Kyeong (School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Kyungpook National University)
  • 유석근 (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부) ;
  • 김정구 (부산대학교 정보컴퓨터공학과) ;
  • 주언경 (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부)
  • Published : 2008.12.25
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Abstract

In shallow water environment, the detection performance of an active sonar using matched filter with LFM(linear frequency modulation) pulse can be seriously degraded by reverberation which is considered as non-white noise. To reduce the effect of reverberation, a whitening filter preceding the matched fitter, is usually adopted. In the conventional pre-whitening filter, it is assumed that local stationarity is preserved between detection block and its right ahead block. And then by using the characteristics of the reverberation of preceding block, the reverberation of detection block is estimated and whitened. According to the environment of shallow water, the stationarity of reverberation may be preserved for more blocks. In this case, the reverberation of the detection block can be estimated more accurately if more blocks are used. In this paper, the real reverberation signal which is obtained from shallow sea is analyzed and its proper region of estimation block is examined. And the performance of pre-whitening matched filter is compared and analyzed according to the region of estimation block.

천해 환경에서 정합필터와 LFM(linear frequency modulation) 펄스를 사용하는 능동소나의 탐지성능은 비백색잡음인 잔향에 의해 크게 저하될 수 있다. 이 경우 잔향의 영향을 줄이기 위해 일반적으로 정합필터에 선행하여 백색화 필터를 사용한다. 기존에는 탐지 블록과 선행 블록의 잔향이 통계적으로 정상성을 유지한다고 가정하고 선행 블록의 잔향 특성을 이용하여 탐지 블록의 잔향을 추정하고 백색화 하였다. 잔향의 정상성은 인접 블록 사이뿐만 아니라 좀더 넓은 범위에서 유지될 수 있다. 이 경우 더 많은 인접 블록을 이용하면 탐지 블록의 잔향을 더 정밀하게 추정할 수 있을 것이다. 본 논문에서는 실제 해안에서 획득한 잔향 신호를 분석하여 적절한 추정 블록의 범위를 구한다. 그리고 추정 블록의 범위에 따른 선-백색화 정합필터의 성능을 비교, 분석한다.

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