The study about through signature of underwater target based on focused beam-forming

In shallow water, the peak and energy of through signature change because of the stack of reflected sound from the sea bottom and sea surface, it will cause much error in signal process. In this paper, the focused beaming-forming method is introduced in through signature processing. Factors of influencing through signature based on focused beaming-forming method are analyzed and the parameters describing through signature are presented. Processing results of actual measurement signal show that if the parameters describing through signature are not affected significantly, it can restrain noise effectively to smooth the through signature curve based on focused beaming-forming method. It also enhances the gain of through signature. Key words: multi-path effects; underwater acoustic image; beaming-forming; through signature; the gain;