how to extract features of ship targets during the complicated and changeable sea environment is a real key for passive sonar underwater target identification. This paper firstly discusses Minimum Variance Distortionless Response Modeling method of ship target. Then
Comparing with the MVDR
FFT and LP modeling method
MVDR is found to provide better spectrum envelop of ship radiated noise
and it analyses the influence of the order number on the performance which is found that it can provide better spectrum envelop of ship radiated noise with the increase of the filter order. Finally
the designed BP neural network is adopted to classify and identify MVDR spectrum characteristics and LP spectrum characteristics. Based on processing results of experimental data
the MVDR spectral parameters proposed in this paper has better classification effect and higher reliability than LP spectrum.