Measuring and modelling ambient noise in three-dimensional ocean environments

水下信号处理和信号检测方案需要良好表征的空间和时间环境噪声场特性，以在诸如检测船舶、潜艇、海洋哺乳动物和其他水下声源的任务中有效地操作。此外，由于对海洋噪声场有了详细的了解，因此开发了被动方法，用于查询海洋、海床和海底下的物理特性，以及调查海气相互作用、表面波破碎、降雨、地球物理过程和推移质沉积物输运等噪声源机制的物理和统计。最近，有人提议将水下噪音作为研究海洋生态健康的监测工具。

Underwater signal processing and signal detection schemes require well-characterized spatial and temporal ambient noise field properties to operate effectively in tasks such as detecting ships, submarines, marine mammals, and other underwater sound sources. Additionally, a detailed understanding of the noise field in the ocean has led to the development of passive methods for querying the physical properties of the ocean, seabed and sub-bottom as well as investigating the physics and statistics of noise source mechanisms such as air-sea interaction, surface wave breaking, rainfall, geophysical processes, and bedload sediment transport. More recently, underwater noise has been proposed as a monitoring tool to study the ecological health of the oceans.