Signatures Extraction of Ship Radiated Noise Based on Passive Sonar

By combining likelihood estimation method and Kalman filtering tracking approach, feature extraction algorithm was developed in this paper to extract the harmonic feature from the underwater noise radiated by different kinds of ships. The ability of harmonic features extrication algorithm is demonstrated by simulation and real shallow water data set comprised of a number of ships. The processing results of real data set also show that he harmonics of different kinds of ships can be used to separate from each other.