Localization of Noise Sources on Underwater Vehicle via Chirp-Fourier Processing

The radiated noise sources of underwater vehicle can be localized by analysis of Doppler information. Then effective suppression of noise can be taken. However, traditional time-frequency methods can hardly distinguish the Doppler shift of noise sources with a single frequency. In this paper, a method of multi-Doppler signals analysis based on Chirp-Fourier transform is presented. The Doppler signal is decomposed into a sum of Linear Frequency Modulate (LFM) components, and transformed into two-dimensional frequency-modulate factor domain. Then the location of multiple noise sources can be estimated by the extracted Doppler information and the interference caused by single frequency sources can be suppressed. Computer simulation and experimental result at sea demonstrate the validity of the proposed method.