Inversion of acoustical data from the “Shallow Water 06” experiment by statistical signal characterization

This paper presents an application to validate an acoustic signal characterization scheme for ocean acoustic tomography and geoacoustic inversions proposed by Taroudakis, Tzagkarakis, and Tsakalides [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 119, 1396-1405 (2006)] using data from an experiment at sea. The data were collected during the Shallow water '06 (SW06) experiment off the New Jersey Continental Shelf and the inversion results (sea-bed geoacoustic parameters and source range) are compared with those reported from the same data by Bonnel and Chapman [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130(2), EL101-EL107 (2011)]. The comparison and the signal reconstruction using estimated values of the model parameters are satisfactory indicating that the new signal characterization method is useful for practical applications of acoustical oceanography.