2008 Research and Technology Highlights
Abstract
New concepts of operations are emerging within the maritime and undersea environment. Limited groups of large and resource-consuming platforms are preceded or supplemented in the near future, by coalitions of autonomous and unmanned undersea networks for surveillance or reconnaissance as well as mine-hunting. Payoffs can be huge as such coalitions can be deployed in advance of an expeditionary operation and are intrinsically more able to adapt to time or spatial/environmental conditions. Researchers at NURC started moving toward this direction nearly 10 years ago. The building blocks--sensor design that facilitated object detection and classification, improved algorithms that enhanced sonar resolution, oceanographic and environmental models that improved the prediction of sonar performance and target recognition--coupled with advances in technology such as more robust unmanned vehicles, improved sonar arrays and instrumentation are bringing these new concepts closer to reality.2008 saw significant progress in areas such as autonomy in mine-countermeasures with autonomous unmanned vehicles (AUVs), multi-sensor intruder detection for harbour detection, undersea networking, multistatic sonar, tactical prediction systems and battlespace characterization. The Marine Mammal Risk Mitigation project continued its work during the SIRENA 08 sea trial while NURC researchers provided operational analysis and support in several exercises.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2009
- Accession Number
- AD1113433
Entities
Organizations
- Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation