 The SCI-329 Research Specialists' Meeting (RSM) on Capabilities for Sensing, Search, and Surveillance in the Arctic is organized by the Systems Concepts and Integration (SCI) Panel and hosted by the Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organization (DALO) and the Joint Arctic Command in Nuuk, Greenland, 26-27 May 2020.
The possibility of Arctic region warming with resulting increased access opportunities implies an increased need for presence in the region, increased and enhanced technological capabilities, and increased ability to model and predict the evolving Arctic environment.
Preservation of the Arctic as a global common and free from threats will become an increasingly important area of concern for the NATO Alliance. The role of space and space capabilities available to NATO forces will be critical to successful operations in the Arctic region; therefore, there is a need for understanding how space capabilities and services should be developed and adapted to support Arctic operations.
In a wider perspective, this RSM is interested in sensing not only from space but also from air, surface / on-ice, and undersea / under-ice. Sensor technologies and sensor systems have been widely investigated in NATO S&T activities in the past, while the focus on applications in the Arctic region is relatively new. Sensing, search, and surveillance operations under the harsh conditions of the Arctic region call for the most advanced sensor technologies and the associated systems of systems.
The subject is of immediate military relevance for the Arctic nations within NATO, but with the increased focus on the Arctic due to possible greater access opportunities in the future, the region is becoming an area of concern for the entire NATO Alliance. The ability to solve tasks such as search and surveillance is important and to a large extent a matter of having the right capabilities at hand. The special operational requirements for operating in the Arctic environment as well as the challenging geographical location of the region must be taken into due consideration.
Topics to be addressed include, but are not limited to:
• RF, EO/IR, Acoustic, and various environmental sensing systems
• Sensor data fusion
• Remote sensing and image interpretation
• Communication systems
• Ability to understand and predict the Arctic environment to assess, estimate or predict sensor system performance
• Use of data from multiplatform sensor systems
• Platforms and systems integration aspects of Arctic operations
• Unique contributions that space capabilities can provide to Arctic environments
• Shortcomings of current capabilities for Arctic operations.
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