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My PhD Thesis, PDF 3MB - Stanford University

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H ( f ) exp ( f p<br />

- 89 -<br />

ray<br />

o dl<br />

with p≠1 can be considered in a similar way (Narayana and Ophir, 1983).<br />

Our goal is to estimate medium response H(f), or more specifically, the<br />

attenuation coefficient o , from knowledge of the input spectrum S(f) and the output<br />

spectrum R(f). A direct approach is to solve equation (4.1) by taking the logarithm and<br />

obtaining<br />

r<br />

ay<br />

o dl 1<br />

f<br />

GS ( f )<br />

ln [<br />

R ( f )<br />

)<br />

] . (4.4)<br />

Equation (4.4) may be used to estimate the integrated attenuation at each frequency and<br />

could be called an amplitude ratio method. However, as described above the factor G<br />

lumps together many complicated processes, and is very difficult to determine.<br />

Furthermore, the calculation of attenuation based on individual frequencies is not robust<br />

because of poor individual signal-to-noise. To overcome these difficulties, I propose a<br />

statistics-based method which estimates the attenuation coefficient o from the spectral<br />

centroid downshift over a range of frequencies.<br />

4.2.2 Spectral centroid and variance<br />

S(f) to be<br />

Let us define the centroid frequency of the amplitude spectrum of the input signal<br />

f S <br />

<br />

<br />

0<br />

<br />

<br />

0<br />

f S ( f ) df<br />

S ( f ) df<br />

, (4.5)

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