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    • Adaptive autonomous underwater vehicles for littoral surveillance: the GLINT10 field trial results 

      Kemna, Stephanie; Hamilton, Michael; Hughes, David T.; LePage, Kevin D. (NURC, 2012/05)
      Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have gained more interest in recent years for military as well as civilian applications. One potential application of AUVs is for the purpose of undersea surveillance. As research into ...
    • Adaptive filter of seabed clutter onboard the AUVs of an active multistatic sonar network 

      Micheli, Michele; Tesei, Alessandra; Ferri, Gabriele; Stinco, Pietro (CMRE, 2019/05)
      This work aims at reducing the false alarm rate of a multistatic active sonar working in coastal, shallow waters. The sonar system is implemented through a heterogeneous manned-unmanned network including autonomous underwater ...
    • Ambiguity reduction of underwater targets in framework of topic modeling 

      Sildam, Jüri; LePage, Kevin D. (CMRE, 2019/06)
      An unsupervised track classification approach based on appropriate discriminative and aggregative features derived from beamformed and normalized matched-filtered data is applied to sonar multistatic tracking and extended ...
    • Autonomous networked anti-submarine warfare research and development at CMRE 

      LePage, Kevin D.; Goldhahn, Ryan A.; Alves, João; Strode, Christopher; Braca, Paolo; Ferri, Gabriele; Munafò, Andrea; Oddone, Manlio; Sildam, Jüri; Baralli, Francesco; Biagini, Stefano; Canepa, Gaetano; Colombo, Marco; Grandi, Vittorio; Grenon, Gabriel; Mazzi, Marco; Micheli, Michele; Parisi, Gerardo; Saia, Paolo; Vermeij, Arjan; Zappa, Giovanni (CMRE, 2019/06)
      CMRE has been evaluating the potential of autonomous networked ASW using underwater vehicles through a program of sonar signal processing, underwater communications, navigation and robotic behavior developments and at-sea ...
    • An autonomous underwater vehicle data-driven control strategy for target tracking 

      Ferri, Gabriele; Munafò, Andrea; LePage, Kevin D. (CMRE, 2019/05)
      This paper presents a data-driven approach to control the movement of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) operating as receivers of a multistatic sonar surveillance network. The algorithm adopts a nonmyopic receding ...
    • Benchmark analysis of NURC multistatic tracking capability 

      Gerard, Odile; Coraluppi, Stefano; Carthel, Craig; Grimmett, Douglas (NURC, 2006/08)
      This paper provides a brief description and performance results for the multistatic sonar trackers developed at NURC. Our analysis is based on common data distributed as part of the Multistatic Tracking Working Group ...
    • Benchmark evaluation of multistatic trackers 

      Coraluppi, Stefano; Grimmett, Douglas; Theije, Pascal de (NURC, 2006/08)
      This paper provides an overview of the Special Session on Multistatic Sonar and Radar Tracking at FUSION 2006. This includes background on the Multistatic Tracking Working Group, a brief description of the datasets and ...
    • Collaborative multistatic ASW using AUVs: demonstrating necessary technologies 

      Hughes, David T.; Baralli, Francesco; Kemna, Stephanie; Hamilton, Michael; Vermeij, Arjan (NURC, 2009/12)
      Many research laboratories and several nations are showing an interest in the 'underwater networked battlespace' in which a combination of stationary and mobile underwater platforms communicate wholly or partially by the ...
    • Contact-level multistatic sonar data simulator for tracker performance assessment 

      Grimmett, Douglas; Coraluppi, Stefano (NURC, 2006/08)
      This paper provides an overview of a multistatic sonar contact-data simulation approach and a dataset generated specifically for tracker algorithm evaluation by the Multistatic Tracking Working Group (MSTWG). A brief ...
    • Continuous active sonars for littoral undersea surveillance 

      Munafò, Andrea; Canepa, Gaetano; LePage, Kevin D. (CMRE, 2019/05)
      Recent advances in transducer and computing technology have pushed the concept of continuous active sonar (CAS) or high duty cycle sonar as an area of interest for application to antisubmarine warfare. Unlike conventional ...
    • Distributed information fusion in multistatic sensor networks for underwater surveillance 

      Braca, Paolo; Goldhahn, Ryan A.; Ferri, Gabriele; LePage, Kevin D. (CMRE, 2019/06)
      Surveillance in antisubmarine warfare has traditionally been carried out by means of submarines or frigates with towed arrays. These techniques are manpower intensive. Alternative approaches have recently been suggested ...
    • Distributed information fusion in multistatic sensor networks for underwater surveillance 

      Braca, Paolo; Goldhahn, Ryan A.; Ferri, Gabriele; LePage, Kevin D. (CMRE, 2017/11)
      Surveillance in antisubmarine warfare has traditionally been carried out by means of submarines or frigates with towed arrays. These techniques are manpower intensive. Alternative approaches have recently been suggested ...
    • Low frequency active sonar noise rejection in a multistatic sonar system 

      Moebus, M. G. (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1993/08)
      The use of low frequency active sonar for ASW has repercussions on automated detection performance. Input data contain not only target returns, but also noise formed by returns from the environment The detector may report ...
    • Multistatic bottom reverberation in shallow water 

      Schmidt, Henrik; Lee, Jaiyong; Fan, Huaiyu; LePage, Kevin D. (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 

      Been, Robert; Jespers, Stephane; Coraluppi, Stefano; Carthel, Craig; Strode, Christopher; Vermeij, Arjan (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 ...
    • On-board real-time assessment of acoustic environmental parameters relevant to the estimation of sonar performance for autonomous underwater vehicles 

      LePage, Kevin D.; Oddone, Manlio; Micheli, Michele; Strode, Christopher; Tesei, Alessandra (CMRE, 2019/05)
      CMRE is evaluating the use of autonomous robots for the detection and tracking of underwater targets. Robotic detection and localization comes with many challenges, not the least of which is the requirement to maximize the ...
    • Source localization for a low frequency active multistatic sonar system 

      Hughes, E. S. (NATO. SACLANTCEN, 1993/08)
      In a low frequency active bistatic or multistatic sonar system, it is essential tohave accurate knowledge of the location of the transmitting source ship. Inaccuracies inthis information translate directly to errors in the ...