Noise Suppression Algorithm for Ocean Magnetic Anomaly Detection

Marine magnetic anomaly detection is one of the basic means of marine scientific observation, exploration of undersea resources, national defense and security. However, the complexity of the magnetic field noise increases the difficulty of the magnetic detection. It is of great significance to study various magnetic field noise mechanisms and suppression methods for the improvement of measurement accuracy. In this paper, the wave magnetic field model under general and infinite depth conditions is used to estimate the noise induced by sea waves respectively. The wave and geomagnetic noise in the magnetic anomaly signal is filtered out by the combination of spectral subtraction and wavelet. In order to verify the validity of the algorithm, the ocean magnetic field in a sea area of South China Sea in August 2015 is observed. The results show that this method can filter out most of the wave and geomagnetic field noise. The wave distribution in the frequency range of 0.4 similar to 0.8 Hz is obviously reduced, the waveform in the time domain is greatly improved, the magnetic anomaly signal of the target is highlighted. Signal to noise ratio can be increased by nearly 11 dB. The proposed method has the advantages of low computational complexity, strong real-time performance and easy implementation, which can provide an effective measure for noise suppression of marine magnetic anomaly detection.