the towed array sonar is severely interfered by the noise from a tugboat
causing the target signal to be submerged in the noise from tugboat and making it impossible to effectively detect the target. In response to the problem of noise from tugboats interfering the detection of weak target
the tugboat noise is modeled as a strong near-field interference
and a near-field interference weighting matrix is constructed to suppresse the near-field interference before beamforming. Then
in response to the problem of inaccurate acquisition of distance and orientation information of tugboats
a robust near-field interference suppression weighting matrix is further designed
which can still suppress the tugboat noise and detect the submerged targets under parameter mismatch
improving the tolerance of parameter range. The processing results of both numerical simulation and sea trial data show that. compared with zero point constraints and interference blocking algorithms
the proposed method can reduce the background level of tugboat noise by more than 80 dB in the case of parameter mismatch
ensuring the purity of tugboat noise interference suppression
achieving the detection of weak target submerged in tugboat noise and improving the capability of towed array sonar detecting the weak target.
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