title: Inversions of statistical parameters of an acoustic signal in range-dependent environments with applications in ocean acoustic tomography.
abstract: The paper presents an application of a method for the characterization of underwater acoustic signals based on the statistics of the wavelet transform sub-band coefficients in range-dependent environments. As it was illustrated in previous work, this statistical characterization scheme is a very efficient tool for obtaining observables to be exploited in problems of ocean acoustic tomography and geoacoustic inversion, when range-independent environments are considered. Now the scheme is applied in range-dependent environments for the estimation of range-dependent features in shallow water. A simple denoising strategy, also presented in the paper, is shown to enhance the quality of the inversion results as it helps to keep the signal characterization to the energy a significant part of it. The results presented for typical test cases are encouraging and indicative of the potential of the method for the treatment of inverse problems in acoustical oceanography.
authors.affiliation: University of Crete, Department of Mathematics, University Campus, 70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
authors.forename: Michael I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Taroudakis
authors.forename: Costas
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Smaragdakis
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009038:Motion; D009791:Oceanography / Q000379:methods*; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D012623:Seawater; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D013016:Sound; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013997:Time Factors