Abstract:In order to improve the imaging effect of magnetic gradient data correlation imaging method on multiple magnetic targets at different depths, an adaptive filtering method is proposed. Firstly, the space to be imaged is divided into three-dimensional regular grids, and the theoretical magnetic gradients of magnetic objects located on different grids in the observation plane are calculated using analytical methods. Then, the filtering threshold of the observation data is determined based on the spectral characteristics of the magnetic gradient data of each magnetic object. Finally, the filtered observation data is used for correlation imaging. The simulation model experiment shows that for shallow magnetic objects, the estimated center position of the magnetic objects based on the imaging results is basically consistent with the actual situation. The filtering processing reduces the error by up to 76%. For multiple magnetic objects with an average depth of 1.7 meters, the estimated center position has a maximum error of 0.3 meters, which is about 46% less than the error of the results without filtering processing. When the signal-to-noise ratio is insufficient, the model that approximates a sphere still has good localization performance. Adaptive filtering can to some extent improve the resolution of 3D correlation imaging and enhance the accuracy of underwater magnetic target localization.