High-bandwidth acoustic detection system (HBADS) for stripmap synthetic aperture acoustic imaging of canonical ground targets using airborne sound and a 16 element receiving array

Steven S. Bishop; Timothy R Moore; Peter Gugino; Brett Smith; Kathryn P. Kirkwood; Murray S. Korman

doi:10.1117/12.2307679

30 April 2018 High-bandwidth acoustic detection system (HBADS) for stripmap synthetic aperture acoustic imaging of canonical ground targets using airborne sound and a 16 element receiving array

Steven S. Bishop, Timothy R Moore, Peter Gugino, Brett Smith, Kathryn P. Kirkwood, Murray S. Korman

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Proceedings Volume 10628, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XXIII; 106281J (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2307679
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2018, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

High Bandwidth Acoustic Detection System (HBADS) is an emerging active acoustic sensor technology undergoing study by the US Army’s Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate. Mounted on a commercial all-terrain type vehicle, it uses a single source pulse chirp while moving and a new array (two rows each containing eight microphones) mounted horizontally and oriented in a side scan mode. Experiments are performed with this synthetic aperture air acoustic (SAA) array to image canonical ground targets in clutter or foliage. A commercial audio speaker transmits a linear FM chirp having an effective frequency range of 2 kHz to 15 kHz. The system includes an inertial navigation system using two differential GPS antennas, an inertial measurement unit and a wheel coder. A web camera is mounted midway between the two horizontal microphone arrays and a meteorological unit acquires ambient, temperature, pressure and humidity information. A data acquisition system is central to the system’s operation, which is controlled by a laptop computer. Recent experiments include imaging canonical targets located on the ground in a grassy field and similar targets camouflaged by natural vegetation along the side of a road. A recent modification involves implementing SAA stripmap mode interferometry for computing the reflectance of targets placed along the ground. Typical strip map SAA parameters are chirp pulse = 10 or 40 ms, slant range resolution c/(2*BW) = 0.013 m, microphone diameter D = 0.022 m, azimuthal resolution (D/2) = 0.01, air sound speed c ≈ 340 m/s and maximum vehicle speed ≈ 2 m/s.

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Steven S. Bishop, Timothy R Moore, Peter Gugino, Brett Smith, Kathryn P. Kirkwood, and Murray S. Korman "High-bandwidth acoustic detection system (HBADS) for stripmap synthetic aperture acoustic imaging of canonical ground targets using airborne sound and a 16 element receiving array", Proc. SPIE 10628, Detection and Sensing of Mines, Explosive Objects, and Obscured Targets XXIII, 106281J (30 April 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2307679

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