Acoustic sensing from small-size UAVs

Dale N. Robertson; Tien Pham; Harris Edge; Brian Porter; Justin Shumaker; Duane Cline

doi:10.1117/12.723691

11 May 2007 Acoustic sensing from small-size UAVs

Dale N. Robertson, Tien Pham, Harris Edge, Brian Porter, Justin Shumaker, Duane Cline

Proceedings Volume 6562, Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications IX; 656208 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.723691
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2007, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

As part of a research initiative within the US Army Research Laboratory, we investigate acoustic sensing capability from UAVs for remote Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) applications. Acoustic sensing from UAVs offers several advantages over acoustic sensing on the ground including: (i) longer detection ranges due to upward refraction and (ii) a single elevated acoustic array (versus multiple acoustic arrays on the ground) can provide a pointing vector to the acoustic source on the ground. However, there are technical challenges with having acoustic sensors on UAVs which involve self generated noise from the platform and the air flow. In this paper, we describe our current work with acoustic sensors on small UAV platforms and present preliminary processing results from a recent field experiment.

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Dale N. Robertson, Tien Pham, Harris Edge, Brian Porter, Justin Shumaker, and Duane Cline "Acoustic sensing from small-size UAVs", Proc. SPIE 6562, Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications IX, 656208 (11 May 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.723691

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