Hausdorff Distance Applied On Real Data Experiment For Underwater Localization

International audience— This paper addresses the problem of localizing and tracking a surface or underwater vessel with the technique called as Hausdorff Distance. Two proposed approaches, based on TDOAs comparison, were used for 2-D localization, in range and depth, with one sensor only, and have been successfully applied to localize a motionless unknown target in a tank's experiment. Results in terms of the localization accuracy have been obtained with real signal and the performance of the proposed localization techniques have been demonstrated and confirmed by simulation with respect of signal-to-noise ratio and compared with the correlation techniques used nowadays for single hydrophones