• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1996.06a
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• pp.45-50
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• 1996

천해에서 얻은 잔향음신호를 역추정 알고리즘으로 분석하여 자료수집 당시의 환경 변수인 해상풍의 세기와 해저면의 상태를 추정하는 방법에 대하여 기술하였다. 소오나 시스템과 잔향음신호 수집 당시의 환경 자료를 알고 있다면 음원에서 방사된 음파가 해수면에 처음 도달하는 시간과 수평입사각을 multipath eigenray model에 의해서 계산할 수 있고 이 정보를 이용하여 수신된 잔향음 신호를 분석하여 해수면에 의한 산란잔향음 준위와 시간을 계산할 수 있다. 해수면 후방산란강도는 수평입사각, 음원의 주파수, 해상풍의 세기 등에 의해 특징지어지며 계산된 잔향음 준위로부터 소오나 방정식을 이용하여 후방산란강도를 알아낼 수 있다. 이 후방산란강도를 입력자료로 하여 Method of Small Perturbation이론과 Chapman과 Harris가 유도한 실험식을 사용하여 입력된 값과 일치할 때까지 후방산란강도를 계산하여 이때의 환경변수를 찾아내었다. 한편 해저면 잔향음신호는 표준화된 후방산란강도값들의 PDF를 만들어 그 분포양상을 분석하였다. 본 논문에서 사용된 알고리즘의 검증을 위해서는 보다 다양한 환경하에서 실시된 많은 음향괸측자료를 필요로 한다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.447-450
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• 2002

음향수조 내에 일정한 간격으로 배열된 단순 모양의 산란체들로부터 획득된 후방산란 신호를 분석하여 산란체 간격(scatterer spacing)을 추측 할 수 있는 방법을 연구하였다. 수신신호의 산란특성을 켑스트럼 피크(cepstral peaks)를 이용하여 산란체 간격으로 해석하였다. 임펄스 응답신호를 이용한 수치계산으로 산란체 간격 추정방법을 검증한 후, 수조 실험으로 획득한 후방 산란 신호에 적용해 그 결과를 비교해 보았다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.78-87
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• 2003

High-frequency (126-㎑) bottom backscattering measurements with various bottom types were conducted at the water tank in Ocean Acoustic Laboratory, Hanyang University. For the purpose of investigating the energy distribution of bottom scattering with various bottom types, the sediment was varied with gravel, sand, sandy mud and mixed bottoms. To examine the anisotropic nature of the scattering due to the orientations of bottom ripple, the footprints were made transverse and longitudinal to the direction of incident wave. The total scattering characteristics are that the larger grazing angles the larger backscattering strengths become and backscattering strengths for a transverse ripple case are higher than those of longitudinal ripple case. finally, the variations of scattering strength depend mainly on the ripple's orientation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.28 no.spc
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• pp.18-22
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• 2022

Because it is difficult to apply direct and optical detection techniques to sunken hazardous and noxious substances (HNS), effective acoustic detection techniques are required to detect sunken HNS in water. In this study, the possibility of acoustic detection of sunken HNS was investigated through backscattering signal measurement experiments using chloroform, a sunken HNS. After establishing a pool in an acrylic tank, backscattering signals were measured according to the presences or absence of chloroform by varying the grazing angle from 90° to 50° in 0.5° intervals using a pan&tilt system. A directional transducer transmitted and received sinusoidal signals with a frequency of 200 kHz and a pulse length of 25 ㎲ in a monostatic state. When chloroform was deposited, the received level of the backscattering signal at the interface between water and chloroform became low at a grazing angle of approximately 80° or smaller. Based on the backscattering signal results obtained at the interface between water and chloroform, the possibility of acoustic detection of sunken HNS was demonstrated.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.562-569
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• 2004

An experiment for observation of the distribution of the seagrass (zostera marina) beds and characteristics of high-frequency backscattering by the photosynthesis was conducted off the coast. Acoustic data were taken as a function of the grazing angles and the relative azimuth angles on the seagrass beds of which bottom type was sandy-mud. The transmitted source signal was a 120 kHz CW waveform. Mapping of the seagrass beds distribution was drawn up using the seagrass backscattering strength with azimuth and grazing angles. The result of the comparison backscattering strength distribution of the seagrass beds was shown to be the similar to the photograph of real seagrass beds. The seagrass backscattering strength was also compared between day and night to verify the effects of the acoustical scattering by the bubbles of Photosynthetic oxygen formed on the seagrass. In these results. it is clear that observation of the seagrass beds between day and night showed the different characteristics because the bubbles of Photosynthetic oxygen affect the acoustical scattering.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.18-23
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• 1996

Fluctuation statistics of scattering strength are not only important because they impact the performance of active sonar systems, but also because they may provide insight into the major scattering process. In this article, analysis of the statistical characteristics of bottom backscattering, measured in shallow water, are presented. The slowly moving experimental sonar was operated at 30kHz to gather data over the bottom. Spatial and temporal correlation functions of the signal amplitudes were measured. The distribution function and probability of false alarm function of the detected envelope of widebeam and narrowbeam signals were measured. An attempt was made to compare the results with existing theoretical models. The result suggests that the statistical characteristics of bottom backscattering fluctuation of moving source is differ from that of fixed source.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.46-53
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• 2000

In coastal bay waters, bubbles are generated by relatively heavy ship-traffic, breaking waves due to man-made structures and biological activities. Therefore, the bubble-generating mechanism as well as the bubble density distribution in the bay are quite different from the open ocean where breaking waves are major contributor for bubble density distribution. High frequency surface-backscattered signals were obtained in the coastal bay waters and they were analyzed to compare with those from the open waters in terms of the sea-surface backscattering strength at various grazing angles, the reverberation characteristics in the sub-surface layer and spectral spreading of the scattered signals. The results show that, the surface scattered signals have an irregular distribution of amplitude in time and the width of the spectral spreading is wider than that of the open sea with rough surface. Furthermore, the amplitude distribution of the reverberation signals is not following the Rayleigh distribution, that is eon to be a typical pattern for the open ocean. The results of our analysis imply that the bubble size and the bubble density in the bay are quite different from those observed in the open waters.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.24 no.8
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• pp.447-453
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• 2005

Laboratory measurements were performed in a uni-algae medium Cochlodinium polykrikoides (Phytoplankton, dinoflagellates) using an Underwater Ultrasound $(5\~15\;MHz)$ to study Characteristics of Acoustic Backscattering of Harmful algae. In an effort to detect the harmful algal scatterers with population density of less than 300 cells/ml that corresponds to the precaution stage of red tide, backscattered signals from various scatterer-density samples were obtained and analyzed. Correlations between volume backscattering strength (Sv) and population density (cells/ml) of scatterers in the medium have been investigated. Comparison of Volume Backscattering Strengths calculated with the fluid-sphere model [1] and the measured values showed an agreement.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.163-168
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• 1989

In this paper, Rayleigh wave velocity has been measured by detecting the backscattered signal generating near the Rayleigh critical angle in the elastic medium. The rotating system has been made for the measurment of Rayleigh angle. It has been shown that the measured velocity for the stainless steel, brass aluminum, copper has been good agreement with the theoretical value. The method of non-destructive evaluation using backscattering signal has been presented and the c-scan acoustic image for internal of IC sample has been displayed.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.421-429
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• 2002

Sea surface backscattering signal measurements were conducted in the shallow waters off the east coast of Korea to study the acoustic wave scattering from the sea surface. The grazing angles of wave range from 20° to 40° with a frequency of 60 kHz. The wind speed and surface roughness of the experiment area were 3 m/os and below 1 m, respectively. The measured acoustic backscattering strengths greatly exceed the composite roughness predictions at low grazing angles. To account for this discrepancy, the scattering strengths due to a near-surface bubble layer were considered. The prediction with bubble contribution was found to be in good agreement with the experimental measurement.