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Multi-domain robotics competitions: the CMRE experience from SAUC-E to the European Robotics League Emergency Robots
(CMRE, 2019/06)This paper details the experience of the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) in the organisation of several robotics competitions since 2010. In particular, the Student Autonomous Underwater Vehicle ... -
Multi-look processing of high-resolution SAS data for improved target detection performance
(CMRE, 2019/06)The rich content of synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) data is typically used to generate imagery with resolution as high as theoretically possible. But when the ultimate purpose of the imagery is for detecting objects with ... -
Multi-sensor data acquisition, tracking, fusion and intelligent decision aids in the NATO Maritime Situational Awareness Initiative: countering underwater intruders
(NURC, 2007/10)The objective of the NATO Maritime -
Multi-sensor ISAR technique for translational motion estimation
(CMRE, 2019/06)In the last years a lot of interest has grown concerning the exploitation of data acquired by multiple sensors belonging to multistatic or Multiple Input Multiple Output systems. Indeed increased information and/or better ... -
Multi-view SAS image classification using deep learning
(CMRE, 2017/11)A new approach is proposed for multi-view classification when sonar data is in the form of imagery and each object has been viewed an arbitrary number of times. An image-fusion technique is employed in conjunction with a ... -
Multi-view target classification in synthetic aperture sonar imagery
(NURC, 2009/12)This work proposes an elegantly simple solution to the general task of classifying the shape of an object that has been viewed multiple times. Specifically, this problem is addressed in the context of underwater mine ... -
Multi-waveform active sonar tracking
(NURC, 2007/06)This paper extends the NURC distributed multihypothesis -
Multipath field representation for seabed parameter extraction using backscatter data from shadow zones
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)Inversion strategies for bottom parameter estimation in shallow water impose stringent requirements on accuracy and speed of acoustic models. We highlight the importance of second order effects as first order determinants ... -
Multipath pulse shape in a refracting environment
(NURC, 2007/11)Multiple boundary interactions in shallow water propagation introduce a more or less Gaussian angle distribution at a distant receiver. When all paths are added the result is 'mode-stripping', i.e. the steep rays are ... -
Multipath pulse shapes in shallow water: theory and simulation
(NURC, 2007/04)In shallow water propagation the steeper ray angles are weakened most by boundary losses. Regarding the sound intensity as a continuous function of angle it can be converted into a function of travel time to reveal the ... -
Multiple Bayesian extended target tracking
(CMRE, 2019/06)To track an extended target presents challenges because the hypothesis of "one target means one detection" is not valid. Several approaches to extended target tracking (ETT) have been found promising, and in particular ... -
Multiple beamforming
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1985/07)Beamforming techniques are generally based on the assumption that the received signal arrives from -
Multiple Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes for maritime traffic graph representation
(CMRE, 2019/05)We propose an unsupervised procedure to automatically extract a graph-based model of commercial maritime traffic routes from historical Automatic Identification System (AIS) data. In the proposed representation, the main ... -
Multiple sensor Bayesian extended target tracking fusion approaches using random matrices
(CMRE, 2019/06)The tracking of extended targets is attracting a growing literature thanks to the high resolution of several modern radar systems. A fully Bayesian solution has been proposed in the random matrix framework. In this paper, ... -
Multiple sensor measurement updates for the extended target tracking random matrix model
(CMRE, 2019/06)In this paper, multiple sensor measurement update is studied for a random matrix model. Four different updates are presented and evaluated: three updates based on parametric approximations of the extended target state ... -
Multiple view sidescan sonar
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1995/12)The classification of objects on the seafloor by means of a sonar can be -
Multisensor adaptive Bayesian tracking under time-varying target detection probability
(CMRE, 2019/06)In practical tracking applications, the target detection performance may be unknown and also change rapidly in time. This work considers a network of sensors and develops a target-tracking procedure able to adapt and react ... -
Multistatic bottom reverberation in shallow water
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1997)A wavenumber integration approach to modeling of the full multistatic reverberant field produced by small-scale bottom roughness in stratified shallow water waveguides has been developed. A perturbation approach to rough ... -
Multistatic sonar: a road to a maritime network enabled capability
(NURC, 2007/10)NATO's operational requirements emphasize interoperability of platforms participating in coalition task forces. Intelligently fusing data of multiple sensor systems and the development of adapted tactics are necessary steps ... -
Mutual coherence and silence
(NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1985/01)In this paper we are developing the theoretical principle of a modification of the acoustical emission by a ship. Its objective is making inefficient the angular measurements achieved by a detector. More precisely, the ...