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Activity title: Intelligent Marine Sensing from Coastal to Littoral Environments
Activity Reference: SET-351
Panel: SET
Security Classification: PUBLIC RELEASE
Status: Proposed
Activity type: RSM
Start date: 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z
Actual End date: 2026-11-01T00:00:00Z
Keywords: acoustic and nonacoustic sensing, AI for in situ marine sensing, maritime domain awareness, maritime unmanned system sensor platforms, SET
Background: The marine environment includes underwater, the water surface, above-water to an altitude of 10 km, and coastal regions. This multi-domain environment is characterized by extremes of pressure, temperature, corrosion, radiation, and forces. The environment is also unstructured and dynamic with spatio-temporal fluctuations that can vary on the order of hours, days, months and annually. Each domain has its sensing and communications challenges with underwater being the greatest. Underwater, the acoustic sensing modality, compared to electromagnetic or free-space optical, is the most effective given the range and frequency dependent attenuation. However, it is still problematic at best. Above-water, electromagnetic and free space optical become more effective and acoustic continues to be effective but with different challenges than below-water.
The environmental harshness and variability means the sensors must be adaptive which could be enabled through autonomous capabilities. Given the operator is usually at remote ranges from the sensing, the sensors must be intelligent. Such autonomous capabilities can include, but are not exclusive to, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning tools. These sensing challenges, stemming from the difficult environment, impacts the concept of operations for naval missions. Marine sensor platforms can be ships, aircraft, deployed arrays, unattended buoys, or marine robots
The topics considered at this RSM are open research areas, some emerging, in conferences and symposia related to harsh environments, marine, oceans, and naval operations with a specific focus on NATO military naval operations. Developments in these topics are also archived and tracked in scientific journals, but there is a need to establish and develop a multidisciplinary community among NATO STO to enhance marine sensing capabilities.
This Specialists Meeting will bring together specialists in marine sensing with the objective to define the state-of-the-art as relevant to military for the sensing modalities considered. It will also highlight gaps that need attention and inspire future research directions.
Objectives: The objective of this specialist meeting is to enable members of Government, Academia, and Industry experts from the NATO countries to exchange scientific knowledge in the broad area of marine sensing, and more specifically on intelligent sensing for marine domain awareness. The specialist meeting aims to achieve the following objectives:
• identify new methodologies, technologies and concepts for marine sensing
• identify the incremental benefits of AI and ML applied to sensing in the harsh marine environment
• stimulate research on the sensing challenges for marine underwater, surface, and air domains
• assess the state of the art in autonomous sensing platforms for maritime domain awareness
• identify the challenges associated with the development of intelligent sensors for maritime reconnaissance and surveillance
Topics: The following list of topics is non-exhaustive and represents only a general indication of the RSM scientific themes as applicable to marine sensing:
• AI and ML approaches to marine air, surface and underwater target detection, classification, identification, localization, and tracking (targets may be artificial or natural e.g. marine mammals)
• deep learning approaches to target detection, classification and identification
• marine robots as intelligent sensor platforms
• NATO experimental activities on intelligent marine sensor platforms (e.g. REPMUS)
• AI/ML aided in situ marine sensing and signal processing
• software-defined and synthetic aperture sonar
• airborne and spaceborne full-spectrum sensing for marine domain awareness
• rapid environmental assesment of marine battlespace (optimize sensors, weapons, etc. performance)
• marine threat detection using sonar, magnetometers, tactical marine radar, LIDAR, radio, microwave, infrared, etc.
o magnetic anomaly detection
o tactical marine radar
o quantum enhanced LIDAR for underwater imaging
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Created at 23/04/2024 19:01 by System Account
Last modified at 16/05/2024 08:00 by System Account
 
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