2019_programme: 60 YEARS AT THE NATO RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MARITIME RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION (CMRE) OF OUTSTANDING SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION IN THE UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS DOMAIN

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• Lecture: 60 YEARS AT THE NATO RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MARITIME RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION (CMRE) OF OUTSTANDING SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION IN THE UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS DOMAIN
  Paper ID: 2002
  Author(s): Maguer Alain, Le Page Kevin, Tesei Alessandra, Dugelay Samantha, Jensen Finn, Harrison Christopher, Williams David, Zimmer Walter, Braca Paolo, Stinco Pietro
  Presenter: Maguer Alain
  Presentation type: oral
  Abstract: From its birth on, the NATO Research Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), formerly named Saclantcen and NUIRC, has been at the cutting edge of the Atlantic Alliance’s innovation strategy. Technical and operational innovation is the core of the CMRE identity. The Centre’s function is still about taking inventions, assessing their value and promoting their transformation into equipment, systems and capabilities by NATO Commands and by the NATO members states’ armed forces. While we are no longer a single military thrust area research lab, i.e. anti-submarine warfare, even if this areas become recently as a very high priority, innovation remains our only engine. As a reminder, SACLANTCEN as NURC was formerly known, made a more formal commitment to NATO naval/maritime research and technology (R&T) after the fall of the Berlin Wall, by expanding its programme of work to all undersea warfare technologies and by preparing itself for the next security crisis such as the Gulf Wars. This has led to successes in the new world of unmanned systems, robotics, artificial intelligence and automatic decision making, as well as synthetic aperture sensors. The beginning of this century saw the Centre venture into new fields of maritime security & safety such as anti-terrorism, anti-piracy, maritime situational awareness or protection of the natural environment, activities which became major foci for growth after the huge slumps of the 90’s and the first five years of the next century that left the Centre under critical mass. The purpose of this tutorial is to go through the history of CMRE identifying the main scientific breakthrough especially in the domain of sonar, signal processing, tracking, space-time beamforming, wave-guide and target modelling, geo-acoustics inversion, time reversal, bio-acoustics, automatic target classification and deep learning.
• Corresponding author: Dr Maguer Alain
  Affiliation: NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)
  Country: Italy
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