Sustainable coastal sensor networks: technologies and challenges

Edward M. Carapezza; Jerry Butman; Ivar Babb; Ann Bucklin

doi:10.1117/12.786636

16 April 2008 Sustainable coastal sensor networks: technologies and challenges

Edward M. Carapezza, Jerry Butman, Ivar Babb, Ann Bucklin

Proceedings Volume 6963, Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications X; 696309 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.786636
Event: SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, 2008, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

This paper describes a distributed sensor network for a coastal maritime security system. This concept incorporates a network of small passive and active multi-phenomenological unattended sensors and shore based optical sensors to detect, classify, and track submerged threat objects approaching high value coastal assets, such as ports, harbors, residential, commercial, and military facilities and areas. The network of unattended, in-water sensors perform the initial detection, classification, and coarse tracking and then queues shore based optical laser radar sensors. These shore-based sensors perform a queued sector search to develop a refined track on the submerged threat objects that were initially detected by the unattended sensor network. Potential threat objects include swimmers, small unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV's), small submarines, and submerged barges. All of these threats have the potential to transport threat objects such as explosives, chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear materials. Reliable systems with low false alarm rates (FAR) are proposed. Tens to hundreds of low cost passive sensors are proposed to be deployed conjunctively with several active acoustic and optical sensors in threat and facility dependant patterns to maximize the detection, tracking and classification of submerged threat objects. The integrated command and control system and novel microbial fuel cells to power these sensor networks are also described.

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Edward M. Carapezza, Jerry Butman, Ivar Babb, and Ann Bucklin "Sustainable coastal sensor networks: technologies and challenges", Proc. SPIE 6963, Unattended Ground, Sea, and Air Sensor Technologies and Applications X, 696309 (16 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.786636

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