Characterization of Ambient Noise Underwater in the coastal area of Mar del Plata

Abstract

Understanding the characteristics of the channel is a key factor in the design of a communication system. In particular, the underwater channel has the disadvantage of having great variability in relatively short periods of time. This requires having to have a method that allows obtaining the parameters that are essential when optimizing communication, so that it is adaptive. This article describes and applies a characterization technique for environmental noise measurement in shallow waters off the coast of Mar del Plata. The result showed the degree of closeness between the probability density function (pdf) of the aforementioned noise with respect to that of a Gaussian distribution.