Exploitation of Acoustic signature of Low flying Aircraft using Acoustic Vector Sensor

Acoustics is emerging as a significant complementary modality to be explored and exploited in the development of Intelligence and surveillance systems that traditionally rely on technology rooted in electro-magnetic field phenomena. Acoustics is emerging as a significant complementary modality to be explored and exploited in the development of Intelligence and surveillance systems that traditionally rely on technology rooted in electro-magnetic field phenomena. An application of the current interest is the detection and localization of the sound sources on battlefield using Acoustic sensors in ground and on board unmanned aerial vehicle. In this work a nonlinear least-square cepstrum and auto correlation methods are made to estimate the motion parameters of a low flying aircraft whose narrowband acoustic energy emissions were received by a ground-based Acoustic vector sensor. The data obtained from the sensor were processed and analyzed using digital signal processing approach. This passive technique is applied to real acoustic sensor data under the condition that the vehicle flies at a constant velocity and the trajectory is a straight line. The performances of both methods are evaluated and compared using actual acoustic data.Defence Science Journal, 2014, 64(2), pp. 95-98. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.64.3924