arXiv · 2609.22266
Dynamic Mode Decomposition by Tensor Evolution for Source Depth
Abstract
Depth estimation of shallow acoustic sources using a deep-ocean near-bottom vertical line array relies on depth-sensitive interference, which appears as an oscillatory structure in the frequency-angle domain in broadband matched beam-intensity processing (MBIP). For low-SNR, the nonlinear feature extraction in MBIP transforms array-domain noise into feature-domain distortions, making depth estimation fragile. Addressing this issue, we propose a tensor evolution-based depth estimation (TEDS) method inspired by dynamic mode decomposition (DMD), which interprets a sequence of broadband MBIP surfaces as the output of a dynamic system from a time-varying autoregressive operator. The operator is represented by a low-rank Tucker decomposition, which separates coherent feature modes and their temporal modes from incoherent noise. The target depth is inferred via Fourier summation applied to a dominant feature mode. Deep-ocean numerical experiments demonstrate that TEDS improves robustness at low-SNR, consistently outperforming matched field processing and broadband MBIP.
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Wenqian Wu, Xiaohong Yang, Guangying Zheng, Lei Cheng, Peter Gerstoft. 2026-09-08. Dynamic Mode Decomposition by Tensor Evolution for Source Depth. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22266
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