Active wideband higher-order raypath separation in multipath environment

International audienceMultiple raypaths propagation is caused by reflection and refraction at the surface and the bottom of the water column. In this study, an active wideband higher-order separation is proposed, which enables the separation of raypaths interrupted by colored noise (as traditionally found in ocean environments) in the angle-vs-time domain. A comparative study shows that the proposed algorithm achieves a more accurate separation than other algorithms. Moreover, with the proposed approach, it is not necessary to assume that the number of sensors is larger than that of the sources. Furthermore, numerical results validate the noise suppression property of the proposed method. (C) 2017 Acoustical Society of Americ