Inversion of Acoustical Properties of Sedimentary Layers from Chirp Sonar Signals

Chirp 신호를 이용한 해저퇴적층의 음향학적 특성 역산

  • Published : 1999.11.01

Abstract

In this paper, an inversion method using chirp signals and two near field receivers is proposed. Inversion problems can be formulated into the probabilistic models composed of signals, a forward model and noise. Forward model to simulate chirp signals is chosen to be the source-wavelet-convolution planewave modeling method. The solution of the inversion problem is defined by a posteriori pdf. The wavelet matching technique, using weighted least-squares fitting, estimates the sediment sound-speed and thickness on which determination of the ranges for a priori uniform distribution is based. The genetic algorithm can be applied to a global optimization problem to find a maximum a posteriori solution for determined a priori search space. Here the object function is defined by an L₂norm of the difference between measured and modeled signals. The observed signals can be separated into a set of two signals reflected from the upper and lower boundaries of a sediment. The separation of signals and successive applications of the genetic algorithm optimization process reduce the search space, therefore improving the inversion results. Not only the marginal pdf but also the statistics are calculated by numerical evaluation of integrals using the samples selected during importance sampling process of the genetic algorithm. The examples applied here show that, for synthetic data with noise, it is possible to carry out an inversion for sedimentary layers using the proposed inversion method.

본 논문은 chirp신호와 두 개의 근거리 청음기를 이용한 해저퇴적층의 음향학적 특성치 역산기법을 제시한다. 역산문제를 확률론적 모델로 정식화하고, 역산의 해를 역산인자의 a priori분포와 유사도함수의 곱으로 표현되는a posteriori 확률분포로 정의하였다. 퇴적층의 음속과 층두께의 a priori정보를 파형 매칭 기법으로 추정한 후 다수의 퇴적층이 존재하는 환경모델을 부분퇴적층모델로 치환하고, 계측신호와 모의신호의 L₂노음을 이용하여 정의된 목적함수에 대해 반복적인 유전자알고리즘 탐색을 수행하여 탐색공간의 축소로 인한 탐색효율과 결과의 향상을 얻었다. A posteriori 확률분포의 다중적분의 형태로 정의되는 인자의 주변확률분포와 평균의 추정은 유전자알고리즘의 탐색과정에서 선택된 탐색점들을 이용하여 수행되었다. 제시된 역산기법의 검증을 위해 두 가지 퇴적층 환경모델을 설정하고 잡음을 첨가한 합성신호에 대해 역산기법을 적용하여 역산해를 추정하였고 역산결과로부터 본 역산기법의 유용성을 확인하였다.

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