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Battlefield Acoustics

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Thyagaraju Damarla

    1. U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Laurel, USA

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  • Shows how acoustic signal processing can aid in situational awareness, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR)
  • Focuses on direction finding, transient event (such as gunfire) detection and localization, tracking targets and personnel detection
  • Provides background on the type of microphone arrays one has to use and the techniques used to find the direction of sound source
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction to Acoustics

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    Pages 1-7

  3. Basic Concepts in Probability

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    Pages 9-17

  4. Detection Theory

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    Pages 19-26

  5. Estimation Theory

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    Pages 27-44

  6. Atmospheric Acoustics

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    Pages 45-55

  7. Acoustic Arrays

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    Pages 57-72

  8. Bearing Estimation Using Acoustic Arrays

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    Pages 73-101

  9. Tracking

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    Pages 103-144

  10. Localization of Transient Events

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    Pages 145-175

  11. Classifiers

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    Pages 177-204

  12. Target Discrimination for Situational Awareness

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    Pages 205-235

  13. Sensor Data Fusion

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    Pages 237-253

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 255-262
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About this book

This book presents all aspects of situational awareness using acoustic signals. It starts by presenting the science behind understanding and interpretation of sound signals. The book then goes on to provide various signal processing techniques used in acoustics to find the direction of sound source, localize gunfire, track vehicles and detect people. The necessary mathematical background and various classification and fusion techniques are presented. The book contains majority of the things one would need to process acoustic signals for all aspects of situational awareness in one location. The book also presents array theory, which is pivotal in finding the direction of arrival of acoustic signals. In addition, the book presents techniques to fuse the information from multiple homogeneous/heterogeneous sensors for better detection. MATLAB code is provided for majority of the real application, which is a valuable resource in not only understanding the theory but readers can also use thecode as a spring-board to develop their own application based software code.

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“The language and style of writing of the author is very clear, straightforward and understandable, and is quite well-written from a pedagogical perspective. The figures, plentiful throughout the book, are well done, and are very clear and illustrative. … The book will likely be of most use to practicing engineers interested in an introduction and broad overview to the battlespace acoustic sensing field. For readers coming to this book from that perspective, it is certainly recommended.” (Robert M. Koch, Noise Control Engineering Journal, Vol. 64 (2), March-April, 2016)

Authors and Affiliations

  • U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Laurel, USA

    Thyagaraju Damarla

About the author

Thyagaraju Damarla works at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Battlefield Acoustics

  • Authors: Thyagaraju Damarla

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16036-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16035-1Published: 07 April 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36816-0Published: 06 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-16036-8Published: 24 March 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 262

  • Number of Illustrations: 68 b/w illustrations, 90 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Engineering Acoustics, Acoustics, Security Science and Technology

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