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Extended Deadline 6 January 2009
Contributions describing innovated work in the topic areas listed below are invited for presentation in oral and poster sessions in the three day unclassified conference.
Authors are requested to submit abstracts of one full A4 page (without illustrations), which have been cleared by the relevant national authority, by 18 December 2008.
A detailed description of how the work is relevant to one or more of the conference topics should be included. A summary of the most significant results of the technical work to date should be given, as well as a brief statement of the contribution to the relevant scientific or engineering field.
Authors will be informed of the decision of the Technical Programme Committee by early February 2009. A final paper will be required by 1 May 2009 for inclusion in the Conference Proceedings. Detailed instructions will be sent to all accepted authors who must obtain security clearance before publication.
The UDT Technical Programme Committee reserves the right to withdraw papers which are not submitted by the deadline date. The abstracts should be submitted and presented in English.
Topic areas for the conference:
The keywords listed for each topic heading are just for guidance and should not be considered as restrictive - the Technical Programme Committee welcome any proposal. Some papers may address several of these topics - in which case please suggest the most appropriate session topic.
Maritime Security and Force Protection
Covering all related areas, for example:
Underwater technology (possibly complementing above water sensing as well, possibly involving surface or subsurface drones etc.) applied to harbour, coastal and off-shore facilities protection in order to face (search, detect, classify, react) seaborne conventional and asymmetrical threat (e.g. divers, improvised explosive devices, swimmer delivery vehicles, low radar cross section boats, RHIB etc); naval forces protection by similar means at anchor, and in insecure ports and littoral waterways (possibly combining ship mounted sensors and seabed or shore based sensors); The threat, its characterisation ; the integration of security systems in the global port / facility operations management / resp. ship command; The proposed solutions: Application of mine avoidance sonar in asymmetric threat detection / Specific security sensors such as Synthetic aperture sonar in underwater security applications / Fiber optic array for coastal area surveillance / magnetic detectors etc./ Lethal and non-lethal reaction against asymmetric threats; All degrees of development maturity of the above: Concepts of operations / underwater surveillance systems simulators / prototypes / sea trials results and live applications
Operation, Navigation and Training
OPERATION: Especially navies are requested to discuss and present the operational aspects of submarines, underwater weapons and underwater vehicles;
NAVIGATION: The technical aspects of underwater navigation and the integration of these systems into respective platforms should be addressed, like global platform management, dual use of sensors for navigation and combat system suite (e.g. obstacle and mine avoidance, navigation radar for force protection at anchor) or increased automation for reduced manning;
TRAINING: Navies but also industry are requested to present training methods, training facilities (at sea, virtual reality, mix of both), training experience and lessons learned, discussing issues such as how far real equipment-in-the-loop is needed for training, use of on-board training tools, way ahead to face increased fuel cost, lesser ships at sea and increasingly joint exercises with non-Nato navies with lower interoperability potential etc.
Network Centric Warfare and Communications
Covering all related areas, for example:
Operational concepts; Command, control and communications; Networked sensors, weapons and platforms; Dynamic allocation of roles in a NCW coalition between all assets (submarines, surface ships, aircrafts, drones...); Network architectures; Multistatism/ Distributed sensing (phased processing or not) / Fusion / correlation of information; Underwater high rate communications to support multistatism and NCW with submarines, UUVs, RDS (rapidely deployed sensors); High rate datalink availability between submerged assets, surfaced assets, and shore; Experimentation (in virtual environments, at sea)
Covering all related areas, for example:
Mine and MCM systems; Detection of sea mine; especially on littoral water; UUV applications for mine warfare; Selected tactical problems of MCM; Physical fields application for MW; Detection and disposal of UIED (Underwater Improvised Explosive Devises)
Environmental Effects and Monitoring
Encouraged arguments include, but are not limited to:
Marine mammals and environmental mitigation; Rapid environmental assessment; Seabed mapping and seafloor characterisation; Benthic stations and seismic networks; Noise and reverberation measurements and modelling; sonar performance modeling, sonar performance modeling
Ship Design and Signature Management
Covering all related areas, for example:
Submarine architecture; Energy and propulsion systems; Life support and rescue systems; Hydrodynamics and diving control; Hull structure and materials; Offshore technologies, suitable for naval submarines; Design and building techniques; Masts and towed antennae; On board noise and vibration reduction, habitability, OH&S; acoustic signature reduction (structure-borne, flow induced...); non-acoustic signature reduction (infrared, optical, magnetic, electromagnetic...)
Combat Systems
Covering all related areas, for example:
Submarine combat systems / Surface ship ASW systems; New technologies / Use of open system standards; New functionality for new scenarios / operations (e.g. ISTAR); Interoperability considerations / Co-ordinated operations; Manning issues / Automation levels / Security aspects
Encouraged arguments include, but are not limited to:
Transducers, hydrophones and arrays; Propagation modelling; Active and passive sonar/systems; Active and passive signal processing; Array processing; Tracking; Passive localisation; Classification (active & passive); Multisensor data fusion; Multiplatform data fusion; Multistatics; Detection of abnormal behaviour of contacts/threat evaluation; Performance prediction/optimisation; Data transmission/telemetry for arrays
Non-Acoustic Sensors
Applications for detection of vessels or human artefacts by any of these means/ optic and laser/ magnetic/ seismic/ pressure waves/ thermal structures/ nuclear/ chemical /wake detection; sensors processing /data compression / automated detection and categorisation / fusion between heterogeneous sensors including acoustic+non-acoustic or above+below water; propagation modelling / signature databases / detection modelling; ship-borne, airborne and spaceborne sensor suites, incl. fitting and powering issues on autonomous vehicles, buoys, gliders; remotely deployable (RDS) / autonomous / disposable sensors incl. deployment, eventual recovery, powering, data or alert transmission
Unmanned Vehicles
Covering all related areas, for example:
Architecture and payloads; Command control; Man machine interaction versus decision autonomy; Communication and positioning; Docking to carriers
Instrumentation and Ranges
Covering all related area, for example:
Exercise and firing ranges/ localisation and tracking/ area control mgt/ advanced exercise targets/ deployment and recovery/ performance and debriefing tools etc; signature assessment ranges (acoustic, non-acoustic) /system / sensors /processing etc; ship performance assessment at sea /manoeuvring/ speed/ launch & recovery/ fuel efficiency etc; quantitative sonar performance assessment (passive, active)/ in tanks/ lake facilities/ at sea ; shore or quayside performance assessment facilities/ propulsion /launch & firing systems /auxiliary plants etc. ; innovative acceptance trial strategies/ models in the loop etc./ Open architecture and modular upgrades
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