Passive sonar de-noising for diver detection in presensce of snapping shrimp

Since 2010, TNO has conducted a number of experiments on passive diver detection in Dutch waters. We have demonstrated detection, localization and tracking of divers wearing open circuit and closed circuit underwater breathing apparatus as well as boats. However, until now, we have not conducted any such experiments in warm waters. The...

The impact of tone language and non-native language listening on measuring speech quality

The extent to which the modeling used in objective speech quality algorithms depends on the cultural background of listeners as well as on the language characteristics using American English and Igbo, an African tone language is investigated. Two different approaches were used in order to separate behavioral aspects from speech signal aspects....

Startle response of captive North Sea fish species to underwater tones between 0.1 and 64 kHz

World-wide, underwater background noise levels are increasing due to anthropogenic activities. Little is known about the effects of anthropogenic noise on marine fish, and information is needed to predict any negative effects. Behavioural startle response thresholds were determined for eight marine fish species, held in a large tank, to tones of...

Performance of Low-rank STAP detectors

In this paper the STAP detector based on the lowrank approximation of the normalized adaptive matched filter (LRNAMF) is investigated for its false alarm probability (FAP) performance. An exact formula for the FAP of the LRNAMF detector is derived using the g-method estimator [4]. The non CFAR behavior of this detector is shown via simulations...

Studiedag SONAR (sound navigation and ranging): IV. Pulsvormen voor actieve sonar

The selection of suitable pulse shapes for active sonar is of major importance for the detection of targets against