A Decision Support System to Ease Operator Overload in Multibeam Passive Sonar

Abstract

Creating human-informative signal processing systems for the underwater acoustic environment that do not generate operator cognitive saturation and overload is a major challenge. To alleviate cognitive operator overload, we present a visual analytics methodology in which multiple beam-formed sonar returns are mapped to an optimized 2-D visual representation, which preserves the relevant data structure. This representation alerts the operator as to which beams are likely to contain anomalous information by modeling a latent distribution of information for each beam. Sonar operators therefore focus their attention only on the surprising events. In addition to the principled visualization of high-dimensional uncertain data, the system quantifies anomalous information using a Fisher Information measure. Central to this process is the novel use of both signal and noise observation modeling to characterize the sensor information. A demonstration of detecting exceptionally low signal-to-noise ratio targets embedded in real-world 33-beam passive sonar data is presented.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JOE.2017.2784199
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Systems analytics research institute (SARI)
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Uncontrolled Keywords: Anomaly,fisher Information,neuroScale,SONAR,visualization
Publication ISSN: 1558-1691
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2024 11:26
Date Deposited: 08 Feb 2018 09:35
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2018-01
Published Online Date: 2018-01-09
Accepted Date: 2017-12-11
Authors: Rice, Iain
Lowe, David

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