Bf. Harrison et al., ROBUST MATCHED-FIELD LOCALIZATION IN UNCERTAIN OCEAN ENVIRONMENTS, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 103(6), 1998, pp. 3721-3724
Matched-field source localization methods can be sensitive to environm
ental parameter mismatch. A statistically optimal approach to source l
ocalization in the presence of environmental uncertainty is the maximu
m a posteriori probability (MAP) estimator. Unfortunately, practical i
mplementation of the MAP estimator results in a computationally intens
ive processor. In this paper, a localization technique is presented th
at is a computationally efficient approximation to the MAP estimator.
A two-step search procedure is used to estimate source position. The f
irst step utilizes an approximation to the MAP estimator which allows
much of the computation to be computed efficiently off-line. This step
also includes a computationally efficient range-depth smoothing which
provides robustness to grid density. In step two, ambiguities arising
from step one are resolved using a fine-grid search procedure over th
e source location parameters. Simulations using the NRL Workshop bench
mark environment, which has seven uncertain environmental parameters,
show the performance of the technique to be comparable to that of the
MAP estimator while requiring only a fraction of the computations. (C)
1998 Acoustical Society of America.