title: Compressive acoustic sound speed profile estimation.
abstract: Ocean acoustic sound speed profile (SSP) estimation requires the inversion of acoustic fields using limited observations. Compressive sensing (CS) asserts that certain underdetermined problems can be solved in high resolution, provided their solutions are sparse. Here, CS is used to estimate SSPs in a range-independent shallow ocean by inverting a non-linear acoustic propagation model. It is shown that SSPs can be estimated using CS to resolve fine-scale structure.
authors.affiliation: Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92093-0238, USA mbianco@ucsd.edu, gerstoft@ucsd.edu.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bianco
authors.affiliation: Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California 92093-0238, USA mbianco@ucsd.edu, gerstoft@ucsd.edu.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gerstoft