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Paper Abstract
Stevens Institute of Technology has established a research laboratory environment in support of the U.S. Navy in the
area of Anti-Terrorism and Force Protection. Called the Maritime Security Laboratory, or MSL, it provides the
capabilities of experimental research to enable development of novel methods of threat detection in the realistic
environment of the Hudson River Estuary. In MSL, this is done through a multi-modal interdisciplinary approach. In
this paper, underwater acoustic measurements and video surveillance are combined. Stevens' researchers have developed
a specialized prototype video system to identify, video-capture, and map surface ships in a sector of the estuary. The
combination of acoustic noise with video data for different kinds of ships in Hudson River enabled estimation of sound
attenuation in a wide frequency band. Also, it enabled the collection of a noise library of various ships that can be used
for ship classification by passive acoustic methods. Acoustics and video can be used to determine a ship's position. This
knowledge can be used for ship noise suppression in hydrophone arrays in underwater threat detection. Preliminary
experimental results of position determination are presented in the paper.
Paper Details
Date Published: 15 April 2008
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 6945, Optics and Photonics in Global Homeland Security IV, 694514 (15 April 2008); doi: 10.1117/12.779176
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6945:
Optics and Photonics in Global Homeland Security IV
Craig S. Halvorson; Daniel Lehrfeld; Theodore T. Saito, Editor(s)
PDF: 12 pages
Proc. SPIE 6945, Optics and Photonics in Global Homeland Security IV, 694514 (15 April 2008); doi: 10.1117/12.779176
Show Author Affiliations
Barry Bunin, Stevens Institute of Technology (United States)
Alexander Sutin, Stevens Institute of Technology (United States)
George Kamberov, Stevens Institute of Technology (United States)
Alexander Sutin, Stevens Institute of Technology (United States)
George Kamberov, Stevens Institute of Technology (United States)
Heui-Seol Roh, Stevens Institute of Technology (United States)
Bart Luczynski, Stevens Institute of Technology (United States)
Matt Burlick, Stevens Institute of Technology (United States)
Bart Luczynski, Stevens Institute of Technology (United States)
Matt Burlick, Stevens Institute of Technology (United States)
Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 6945:
Optics and Photonics in Global Homeland Security IV
Craig S. Halvorson; Daniel Lehrfeld; Theodore T. Saito, Editor(s)
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