Detection and classification of submerged threats in very shallow water using the Quiet Interlude Processing System (QuIPS)

Author

Wilson, James H.

Author_Institution

Barnett Center, Neptune Sci. Inc., San Diego, CA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1669

Abstract

This paper describes the capabilities of the Quiet Interlude Processing System (QuIPS) in very shallow water (0 to 100 m) against undersea (mini subs, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), swimmer delivery vehicles (SDVs), etc.) and surface threats. QuIPS performs Matched Phase Matched Field Processing (MPMFP) in real time and data fuses contacts with nonacoustic, remotely sensed data and traditional plane wave acoustic data. No existing system has the capability to detect, classify, and track such threats in very shallow, noisy near shore and harbor environments where the acoustic arrivals at low frequencies are not plane wave.

Keywords

acoustic signal detection; acoustic signal processing; military systems; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; sonar detection; underwater acoustic propagation; underwater vehicles; 0 to 100 m; AUV; Autonomous Underwater Vehicle; MPMFP; Matched Phase Matched Field Processing; QuIPS; Quiet Interlude Processing System; SDV; harbor environment; mini submarines; near shore environment; nonacoustic data; remotely sensed data; shallow water; submerged threat classification; swimmer delivery vehicles; traditional plane wave acoustic data; undersea vehicles; Acoustic signal detection; Acoustic waves; Frequency conversion; Fuses; Marine vehicles; Mobile robots; Remotely operated vehicles; Surface acoustic waves; Underwater acoustics; Underwater vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS 2003. Proceedings

Print_ISBN

0-933957-30-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS.2003.178128

Filename

1282643