Chirp sub-bottom profiler source signature design and field testing

Marine Geophysical Researches - Tập 23 - Trang 481-492 - 2002
Martin Gutowski1, Jon Bull1, Tim Henstock1, Justin Dix1, Peter Hogarth2, Tim Leighton3, Paul White3
1School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Southampton Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom
2GeoAcoustics Ltd., Shuttleworth Close, Gapton Hall Industrial Estate, Norfolk, United Kingdom
3Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, Southampton University, Southampton, United Kingdom

Tóm tắt

Chirp sub-bottom profilers are marine sonar systems which use a highly repeatable source signature to facilitate the acquisition of correlated data with decimetre vertical resolution in the top 20–30 m of sediments. Source signatures can be readily developed and implemented, but an applicable methodology for assessing resolution and attenuation characteristics of these wide-band systems did not exist. Methodologies are developed and applied to seven contrasting source signatures which occupy the same frequency band, but differ in their Envelope and Instantaneous Frequency functions. For the Chirp source signatures tested, a Sine-Squared envelope function is shown to produce seismic data with the optimum resolution and penetration characteristics.

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