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Epsilon series Business Sensor FS4B Context:
[001]~ Aerial Sensor Platform
[002]~ Rapidly Deployable Sensors
[003]~ Rapidly Deployable & Reconfigurable Sensors
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[001] FS4B Context ~ Business Sensor: ~ Aerial Sensor Platform
Aerial Sensor Platform:
~ have been explored; however companies involved with these are also potential competitors!
Background:
~ /IDEX 2005/ see http://idex.janes.com/docs/idex2/sections/moxiepix/t145.gif
~ The aerostat floating gracefully above the entrance to Hall 4 is not an advertising balloon
~ but an example of a widely used platform to carry sensors for guarding borders or other vulnerable sites.
~ Produced by US firm TCOM, which will provide detailed information on Stand 510 in Hall 4,
~ the aerostat is an essential part of the company’s low altitude surveillance system (LASS).
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[002] FS4B Context ~ Business Sensor: ~ Rapidly Deployable Sensors
Rapidly Deployable Sensors:
~ FS sensors have been designed right from the beginning to be rapidly deployable!
~ Several architectures are being explored at the same time with own design
~ Essential difference is that S&S offers the whole architecture with FB,FC,FS,Smart Boba and other Freedom Devices
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~ Rapidly Deployable Sensors
~ note: above are Air-droppable Arctic Sensors!
Abstract by S&S:
~Canada claims sovereignty over a large expanse of ocean off all three coasts.
~ In order to support this claim, the country needs to be able to monitor and control access to this territory.
~ The aim of the Rapidly Deployable Sensors (RDS) Group is to investigate the feasibility of using passive and active sonar systems
~ for surveillance of Canada’s ocean approaches, including both the open ocean, the Arctic Basin and the channels of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
~ The work involves investigations of the unique acoustic characteristics
~ (ambient noise, propagation conditions, sea-floor and ice-cover interactions) of Canadian waters,
~ as well as the development of appropriate surveillance systems, processing methods and deployment techniques.
Open-Ocean Surveillance:
~ The RDS Group’s responsibility under this project is to investigate performance of acoustic surveillance arrays
~ for detecting and localizing submarine and surface vessels in the coastal waters of Canada and its approaches.
~ Much of the effort is being coordinated with Canada's allies in a joint collaborative work plan on Rapidly Deployable Sensors.
~ Members of the RDS Group participated in an international TTCP sea trial in Australian waters in November 1998
~ to assess the potential for combined horizontal and vertical moored hydrophone arrays in shallow water.
~ Advanced signal processing techniques based on Matched Field Processing will aid in detecting and localizing vessels in range, bearing, and depth.
~ Array element localization (AEL) experiments were an important consideration in this sea trial
~ as advanced signal processing schemes usually require precise knowledge of the locations of the hydrophone elements in an array.
~ The RDS Group is developing a new acoustic sensor system, capable of being easily configured for use in many different array architectures,
~ particularly bottom mounted arrays, which have applications in rapid environmental assessment and surveillance.
~ Interest has been directed at exploring low-cost, light-weight array technology,
~ resulting in the UCARA (Ultra-light Canadian Acoustic Research Array) development.
Air-droppable Arctic Sensors:
~ Over the last five years, the section has been carrying out work under tasking from DAEPM(M)
~ to investigate sensor options for maritime patrol aircraft to use in ice-covered Arctic waters.
~ Past studies have included tests of thermo-chemical melters to drill a hole through the ice for a hydrophone to be dropped through;
~ and tests of geophone sensors mounted on penetrators that will stick into the ice when dropped from an aircraft.
~ Recent very promising studies have focused on the use of more sophisticated geophone and accelerometer sensors
~ to allow a target bearing to be determined from a single sensor package.
Ice Pressure Assessment:
~ The section’s expertise in operating in ice-covered waters has been used to support an investigation
~ for the Canadian Coast Guard to determine if acoustic sensors under the ice of the Gulf of St. Lawrence
~ could be used to determine where the ice is under pressure, and hence,
~ where ships might be in danger of becoming entrapped.
~ Preliminary data have shown that some simple acoustic systems (sonobuoys manually set up on the ice with the hydrophone lowered
~ through a hole drilled through the ice) can pick up ice grinding and ridging noises.
~ It remains to be seen whether these can be correlated with pressure events.
~ For more information
~ Head/Technology Demonstration, Phone: (902) 426-3100 ext. 322, E-mail: atl.h.td@drdc-rddc.gc.ca
~ Defence R&D Canada – Atlantic
~ P.O. Box 1012, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia B2Y 3Z7, Phone: (902) 426-3100 Fax: (902) 426-9654
~ www.atlantic.drdc-rddc.gc.ca Fact Sheet No. TD0302 © DRDC Atlantic 2002
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[003] FS4B Context ~ Business Sensor: ~ Rapidly Deployable & Reconfigurable Sensors
Rapidly Deployable & Reconfigurable Sensors:
~ FS sensors have been designed right from the beginning to be rapidly deployable!
~ Several architectures are being explored at the same time with own design
~ Essential difference is that S&S offers the whole architecture with FB,FC,FS,Smart Boba and other Freedom Devices
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~ Rapidly Deployable Reconfigurable Line Sensors
Abstract by S&S:
~ Sensors and security systems that can be rapidly deployed
~ which are being sought by many different military, government, and commercial organizations.
~ The Portable, Reconfigurable Line Sensor (PRLS) is a rapidly-deployable, bistatic, pulse-Doppler radar sensor.
~ The PRLS has been designed to protect high value assets on a temporary or semi-permanent basis
~ and can be deployed to establish a secure perimeter around an asset in approximately five minutes.
~ The PRLS has many unique capabilities that are not presently available in commercial microwave sensor systems.
~ Alignment of transmitter and receiver is not required,
~ no offset distance is required,
~ and the units are self-protecting.
~ The PRLS can operate on batteries or from ac power,
~ and it includes an RF alarm data link to communicate intrusion alarms.
~ These capabilities combine to make the PRls very promising for use in rapid-deployment, high-security operations.
~ There is widespread interest in commercial production of the PRLS and in its subsequent use
~ in various government and commercial applications.
~ Because the PRls was designed in the early 80s some preproduction development is required
~ to update the technology and to transition the current PRLS into a producible product.
~ Sandia National Laboratories is actively pursuing an expeditious transfer of this technology
~ to industry for production engineering and commercial development.
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