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Recent Advances in Underwater Signal Processing II

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensing and Imaging".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 1139

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Deportment of Information and Communication Engineering, Xiamen University, 422 Siming South Road, Xiamen 361005, China
Interests: digital communications; wireless communications; modern signal processing; underwater acoustic communication
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College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China
Interests: sonar imaging; synthetic aperture sonar; synthetic aperture radar; image resolution; radar imaging; signal reconstruction; signal sampling
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Following the success of the previous Special Issue “Recent Advances in Underwater Signal Processing” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/raudsp_sensors), we are pleased to announce the next in the series, entitled “Recent Advances in Underwater Signal Processing II”.

In total, 71% of the Earth is covered by ocean, which plays an important role in human life (ecological regulation, living resources, mineral resources, etc.). Underwater equipment, including sonar and radar, can help us to better understand the ocean. Using these technologies, topography, underwater communication, target detection, localization, imaging, and ocean monitoring can be easily carried out. Signal processing and electronics techniques have achieved significant progress in recent years. Thanks to these developments, the novel theories, mechanisms, and processing techniques of underwater equipment have also been pushed into a new stage.

This Special Issue aims to highlight recent advancements, developments, and applications in underwater signal processing methodologies, including characterization, simulation, real data processing, as well as applications to underwater engineering. In general, any contributions related to underwater signal processing or ocean signal processing will be considered.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Underwater communication;
  • Underwater network;
  • Underwater detection;
  • Underwater navigation;
  • Underwater noise modeling;
  • Underwater mapping and localization;
  • Underwater vehicle technology;
  • Sonar signal processing;
  • Ocean monitoring;
  • Ocean remote sensing techniques;
  • Marine environment assessment;
  • Air–sea interactions.

Dr. Haixin Sun
Dr. Xuebo Zhang
Guest Editors

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A High-Resolution Imaging Method for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Sonar Based on Deterministic Compressed Sensing
by Ning Gao, Feng Xu and Juan Yang
Sensors 2024, 24(4), 1296; https://doi.org/10.3390/s24041296 - 17 Feb 2024
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Abstract
Differences between conventional sonar and Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) sonar systems arise in achieving high angular and range resolution. MIMO sonar uses Matched Filtering (MF) with well-correlated transmitted signals to enhance spatial resolution by obtaining virtual arrays. However, imperfect correlation characteristics yield high sidelobe [...] Read more.
Differences between conventional sonar and Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) sonar systems arise in achieving high angular and range resolution. MIMO sonar uses Matched Filtering (MF) with well-correlated transmitted signals to enhance spatial resolution by obtaining virtual arrays. However, imperfect correlation characteristics yield high sidelobe values, which hinder accurate target localization in underwater imagery. To address this, a Compressed Sensing (CS) method is proposed by reconstructing echo signals to suppress correlation noise between orthogonal waveforms. A shifted dictionary matrix and a deterministic Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) measurement matrix are used to multiply received echo signals to yield compressed measurements. A sparse recovery algorithm is applied to optimize signal reconstruction before joint transmit–receive beamforming forms a 2D sonar image in the angle-range domain. Numerical simulations and lake experimental results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed method, by obtaining a lower sidelobe sonar image under sub-Nyquist sampling rates as compared with other approaches. Full article
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