SagnacAssisted Enhanced OTDR for Distributed Acoustic Sensing: A Standardized Benchmark and Engineering Evaluation Framework
Phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry ($φ$-OTDR) is widely used in large-scale distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) because it provides distributed spatiotemporal monitoring over long sensing distances. Its field performance can still deteriorate because of polarization-induced fading (PIF), local signal degradation, and strong environmental interference. This study develops a Sagnac-assisted enhanced $φ$-OTDR sensing architecture and a standardized benchmark framework for engineering-oriented DAS event recognition. The Sagnac interferometer provides a continuous phase response that supplements fading-prone observations in the $φ$-OTDR channel, and heterogeneous signal alignment is achieved using a cross-correlation procedure implemented on an FPGA platform. The benchmark protocol compares conventional feature-engineering methods, probabilistic shallow classifiers, single-branch deep models, and dual-branch fusion models under consistent data partitioning, preprocessing, and metric definitions. Experiments on a 10-km sensing fiber with six representative acoustic event classes show that the dual-branch fusion model provides the most favorable trade-off among the evaluated methods, reaching 89.79\% accuracy, 89.83\% macro-F1, and a nuisance alarm rate of 5.00\% on the balanced test set. The results also show that channel grouping strongly affects dual-branch evaluation, indicating that deployment-oriented conclusions should be based on accuracy, macro-F1, nuisance alarm rate, false negative rate, and latency rather than accuracy alone. This work provides a physically motivated enhancement strategy for $φ$-OTDR-based DAS and a reproducible benchmark protocol for future fusion-oriented sensing research. The implementation and scripts for reproducing the DAS event-recognition experiments are publicly available at https://github.com/wawa-abc/das.
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