Advanced Sensors ACTD Demonstration; FY1998 Summary Report

• Main Author: Rankin, Walter N.
• Other Authors: NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER DAHLGREN DIV VA
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Land Mine Warfare; *MINE DETECTORS; *COUNTERMINING; *MINE HUNTING; ELECTROOPTICS; THREATS; MINEFIELDS; CANADA; IDENTIFICATION; SHALLOW WATER; JOINT MILITARY ACTIVITIES; COVERT OPERATIONS; TOROIDS; SURVEILLANCE; RECONNAISSANCE; DEEP WATER; MINES(ORDNANCE); SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR; SEARCH SONAR; DEFENSE SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; TEST AND EVALUATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; Canada; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA542031; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA542031

This effort, succeeding the "VSW Integrated Sensors" effort conducted in FY 1997, supported the long term goal of developing a clandestine mine surveillance, reconnaissance, and detection capability that uses several sensors to provide knowledge of the full dimensions of the mine threat. Technologies developed by the Office of Naval Research include the Toroidal Volume Search Sonar (TVSS), the Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS), and the Electro-Optic Identification (EOID) Sensor, with associated signal and image processing and display. These Advanced Sensors, when deployed in a low observable system, will provide the Navy with a capability to conduct low observable or clandestine mine reconnaissance against volume and bottom mines from deep water through very shallow water at a rate ten times that currently available to the Fleet. Furthermore, use of the Advanced Sensors will provide the rapid mine identification capability needed if joint forces are to exploit gaps in enemy defenses (minefields) as envisioned in the concept of Operational Maneuver From the Sea (OMFTS)(1). Since the sensors were ready for field demonstration, they were included in the Joint Countermine Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (JCM ACTD) conducted during the Maritime Combined Operations Testing (MARCOT) Unified Spirit 1998 NATO Exercises which took place in May-June 1998 in Newfoundland, Canada. See also ADM002252.