Continued Development of Advanced Marine Vehicles

Abstract

The US Navy has identified the enhancement of its littoral war fighting capability as a major priority. Clandestine rapid environmental assessment and mine reconnaissance are two significant capability enhancements where AUV's play a crucial role. SFOMC is developing a mature capability to conduct AUV experiments in an efficient and economical manner. The primary goal of this project is to provide additional AUV capabilities resident at SFOMC and to support specific analyses and experiments that further Navy objectives. The secondary goal is to provide the Navy and scientific community with a natural ocean laboratory that is environmentally exceedingly well characterized. This secondary goal is to have infrastructure for sustained ocean observations, flexible interfaces to new and emerging systems, a geographical information database, and real time as well as archived data reporting system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2003
Accession Number
ADA629484

Entities

People

  • Garth A. Jensen
  • Manhar Dhanak

Organizations

  • Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Communities
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Environmental Assessment
  • High Resolution
  • Infrastructure
  • Measurement
  • Navy
  • Observation
  • Observatories
  • Ocean Observing Systems
  • Oceans
  • Optical Tracking
  • Radar Tracking
  • Underwater Vehicles
  • Vehicles

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Systems Analysis and Design