Sonar image reconstruction method based on adaptive compensation of very shallow water acoustic channel features

Abstract

Abstract Aiming at the problem of eliminating the influence of channel interference on the detection results in the process of using sonar to detect very shallow water targets, a sonar image reconstruction method based on adaptive compensation of very shallow water acoustic channel features is proposed. Standard acoustic source and remote server are used to complete the adaptive calibration process of channel characteristic parameters before detection. The calibrated channel characteristic parameters are used in the subsequent beamforming algorithm to compensate the channel interference. The time-of-flight parameters calculated by the compensation algorithm are used in the subsequent point cloud generation and image reconstruction. Simulation and field test show that the proposed compensation method can improve sonar target detection ability by 25% in very shallow water and complex acoustic channel environment, and the quality of sonar image reconstruction is significantly improved.