ASW
In recent years, ASW systems have evolved to address the emerging threat posed by littoral operations, bringing with that an increase in the numbers of false contacts that need to be managed. The skill levels required to achieve this and the resulting cost of ownership (e.g. training, numbers of operators...) is an increasing financial drain. The techniques that maintain or increase capability whilst reducing the cost of ownership are of growing importance.
The UDT TPC is seeking papers under the following headings:
Threat Spectrum
- Midget sub (sat on the bottom)
- Torpedoes
- Unmanned vehicles (i.e. techniques for dealing with the likely future threats, rather than the traditional SSK or SSN)
Sensors
- Acoustic (opto-acoustic & electro-acoustic)
- Non-acoustic
- Multi-influence
Sensor Processing
- Signal processing - noise rejection (due to self noise, own ship, interference); adaptive techniques
- Data processing (i.e. DCL including False Alarm Reduction techniques)
- Computer aided DCL (e.g. automation)
- Fusion - multiple sensors; position prediction (for towed sensors)
- Display techniques - operator aids
- Operability - manning reduction, training, simulation
Deployed Sensors
- Energy sources
- Low power processing
- Fully autonomous processing
