• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.138-144
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• 2024

This paper presents a bistatic to monostatic conversion technique to analyze the bistatic target strength of submarines. The technique involves determining the transmission path length of acoustic waves, which are emitted from a source, scattered off an underwater target, and eventually received by a receiver. By generating a corresponding virtual scattering surface, this method effectively transforms the target strength analysis problem from bistatic to monostatic. The converted monostatic target strength problem can be assessed using a well-established monostatic numerical methods. The bistatic target strength analysis for Benchmark Target Strength Simulation (BeTTSi), a widely used target strength model were performed. The results were compared with those calculated by boundary element methods and Kirchhoff approximation, and confirmed the validity and the practical applicability of the proposed analysis technique for evaluating submarine target strength.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.191-199
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• 1989

Research on the acoustic properties of fish has been carried out by a number of scientific workers from the earliest days of applying acoustic techniques to fish biomass estimates. This paper describes measurements of the target strength of Cyprinus Carpio, which measurements made at 50KHz in the experimental water tank. The results obtained are as follows: 1. The target strength(dB) of the fish has a directivity pattern quite similar to that of a transducer. The maximum value of target strength(dB) is obtained when the fish is insonified to its head-tail axis either from the dorsal or from the ventral side. 2. Empirical relationship between target strength(dB) and body length(cm) of the fish can be estimated as TS=20 Log L-65.4 where TS is the target strength of the fish and L is the body length of the fish. 3. The relationship between target strength(dB) and body weight(g) of the fish can be estimated as TS=6.7 Log W-53.7 where W is body weight of the fish.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.410-415
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• 2013

Acoustic target strength (TS) is one of the most considerable design elements for survival capacities of the submarine. It needs to reduce acoustic TS that submarines are getting larger and larger, Alberich anechoic coatings are widely used as the representative method. In this paper, the finite element method (FEM) is used to analyze the reflection and transmission coefficients of Alberich anechoic coatings, which have periodic unit cells. The FEM results are compared with experimental results in the literature. Moreover, acoustic TS for the submarine is analyzed by using that result. Finally, it is shown that acoustic TS (Case 1: 10dB, Case 2: 6dB) are reduced due to the use of Alberich anechoic coatings.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.43 no.3
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• pp.305-313
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• 2024

For effective bi-static sonar operation, detection performance analysis must be performed reflecting the characteristics of sound propagation due to the ocean environment and target information. However, previous studies analyzing bistatic sonar detection performance have either not considered the ocean environment and target characteristics or have been conducted using simplified approaches. Therefore, in this study, we compared and analyzed the bistatic detection performance in Yellow sea and Ulleung basin both with and without considering target characteristics. A numerical analysis model was used to derive an accurate bistatic target strength for the submarine-shaped target, and signal excess was calculated by reflecting the simulated target strength. As a result, significant changes in detection performance were observed depending on the source and receiver locations as well as the target strength.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.44-51
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• 2001

This Paper the practical echo signal synthesis model to predict the target strength and signal shape of a submarine for a valuable tool to active sonar engineer. It is based on UTAHID (Underwater TArget by Highlight Distribution) model which is relocated highlight points along to external hull for aspect angle, and synthesized echo signal by modified grouping highlights to internal scatter cloud. Proposed model is analyzed target strength characteristics on various incident pulse length, and synthesis signal signature, target time spreading loss, echo elongation effect and so on. Thus it can be efficiently used in various real systems related to underwater target echo signal synthesis, that is, active sonar, acoustic countermeasure and surveillance system.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.1-8
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• 2000

In this paper, we formulate an optimal control problem to obtain the optimal signal strength and detection threshold for tracking with NN filter, First, we predict the tracking performance of NN filter by using the HYCA method. Based on this method, the predicted tracking performance is represented with respect to signal strength and detection threshold. Using this relation, we find the optimal parameters for following three examples： 1) the sequence of optimal detection threshold which minimizes sum of position estimation error； 2) the sequence of optimal detection threshold which minimizes sum of validation gate volume； and 3) the sequence of optimal signal strength and detection threshold which minimizes sum of signal strength.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.15-22
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• 2000

This paper proposes a distributed highlight algorithm to generate efficiently echo signal for underwater target. In this algorithm, echo signal is synthesized by discontinuity highlights that are varied to incident angle, by equivalent and specified position highlights according to the spatial target structure. Completed UTAHID(Underwater TArget by Highlight Distribution) model is confrimed that PTS, ETS, echo elongation effect, target time spreading loss and envelope fluctuation are satisfied to expected values by various simulations. Thus it can be efficiently used in all sorts of real systems related to underwater target echo signal synthesis in active sonar.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.27-28
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• 2000

일반적으로 과학어군탐지기는 임의의 수층에서 어군에 의해 산란된 신호로부터 자원량 추정을 실시한다. 따라서, 대상 어군을 구성하는 개체어의 표적강도(Target Strength ; TS)는 가장 중요한 변수이며, 이로부터 현장에서 어군의 분포 밀도를 좀더 정확하게 추정할 수 있다. TS를 결정하는 변수는 자세각, 어체의 체장, 부레의 유무, 주파수 등이다. TS를 알기 위한 많은 국내ㆍ외의 실험들이 죽은 어체를 이용하였으며, 살아있는 어체라도 음축으로부터 어체의 위치를 정확히 파악하기 어려운 센서들을 사용하여 정확한 TS의 정보를 제공하는데는 한계가 있었다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.171-174
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• 2004

표적강도는 수중 산란체의 능동 탐지 확률을 좌우하는 중요한 변수중 하나이며 산란체의 기하학적 형상에 의해 결정이 되기 때문에 수치해석을 통한 해석 및 예측이 가능하다. 수치해석 기법은 현재 여러 가지가 알려져 있으며, 그중 Kirchhoff approximation이 다른 해석 기법에 비해 거울면 반사특성의 산란해석에 적합하며, 프로그램으로의 적용이 용이하다는 장점으로 인해 많이 사용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 장점에 의거하여 Kirchhoff approximation을 이용하여 표적강도 수치해석 프로그램을 개발 및 검증하였다. 프로그램의 성능 검증은 원통형 산란체에 대한 이론해 검증과 원통형 실험 산란체를 통한 실험 검증을 수행하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.107-114
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• 2023

X-ray fluorescence analysis has been widely used in the field of science and industry because it gives information about elements and their concentrations without destruction of samples. To increase analysis accuracy of fluorescence generated by photons of the transmission-type X-ray tube for mixture and compound samples would be recommend to have strong energy near 10 keV and 20 keV simultaneously. Tungsten of 9.65 keV and molybdenum of 17.48 keV were considered as targets with dual deposition structure for obtaining two strong characteristic X-rays, and the transmission-type X-ray tube was analyzed using Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation. The W-Mo structure resulted in strong characteristic X-ray near 10 keV and 20 keV simultaneously. A structure with Mo-W multilayers of 5 ㎛ thick also gave optimal spectrum. Various material combination and thickness optimization for the dual-structured target can give X-ray spectrum with strong characteristic X-ray of specific energies.