Source localization in an ocean waveguide using supervised machine learning

Abstract

Source localization in ocean acoustics is posed as a machine learning problem in which data-driven methods learn source ranges directly from observed acoustic data. The pressure received by a vertical linear array is preprocessed by constructing a normalized sample covariance matrix (SCM) and used as the input. Three machine learning methods (feed-forward neural networks (FNN), support vector machines (SVM) and random forests (RF)) are investigated in this paper, with focus on the FNN. The range estimation problem is solved both as a classification problem and as a regression problem by these three machine learning algorithms. The results of range estimation for the Noise09 experiment are compared for FNN, SVM, RF and conventional matched-field processing and demonstrate the potential of machine learning for underwater source localization..

Submitted to The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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