Some aspects of the registration of low-frequency impulse signals in air using a complex receiving system

The specific features of the formation of impulse acoustic and seismic signals, as well as their propagation to relatively short distances under various conditions of their excitation, based on the registration of consistent data on a pressure field and an oscillation speed field are discussed. It is shown that the “delayed” character of the signals, especially at low exit angles of projectiles, is due to the intense interaction of a wave excited by a shot with the ground and to multiple reflections of the signals. The use of signals registered by the channels of a vector receiver makes it possible to obtain information on the spatial distribution of the signals. When a projectile bursts in air, the sound wave that is incident on the land surface induces a seismoacoustic wave that is first registered by channels of a combined receiving unit (CRU).