夹心型水声换能器的温度稳定性

本文从理论上分析了影响夹心型水声换能器温度稳定性的主要原因。提出了采用温度稳定性较好,谐振频率及温度系数较小的压电陶瓷,并在压电陶瓷圆片和钢片之间设置缓冲层,进一步改变换能器的结构,从而提高了夹心型水声换能器的温度稳定性。     

Monitoring moored instrument motion by optimal estimation

Many oceanographic applications require the positioning of the underwater sensor at measurement times. We consider here the case of subsurface moored tomographic instruments, where the distance between source and receiver must be known within a few meters. For that purpose, a long baseline array is deployed: this system includes a navigator, attached to the mooring element and an array of three transponders set on the ocean bottom. To process the navigation data collected with such system, we have developed a method based on optimal estimation. The triangulation problem is not a basic spherical constraints one and the specificity of deep underwater positioning, related to the variability of the ocean sound speed profile are pointed out. Correcting terms are proposed and introduced into the system. Simultaneous inversion of all data, defining an overconstrained problem allows to estimate biases and errors. The algorithm is applied here to a dataset collected in the Azores-Canary basin during CAMBIOS experiment.