Harbour Protection Through Data Fusion Technologies

by Shahbazian, Elisa; Rogova, Galina; Deweert, Michael J.

• ISBN13: 9781402088827
• ISBN10: 1402088825
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-04
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc

Summary

This volume includes the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in Tallinn, Estonia, June 27-July 1, 2005 entitled Data Fusion Technologies for Harbour Protection. The aim of the ARW was to understand the requirements and procedures for ensuring security at a Harbour/Port and analyse how the Data Fusion Technology can enhance the situational awareness and help improve performance for Harbour Protection. The ARW brought together harbour security domain experts (administrators, policy makers, etc.) with a group of technology experts of international standing in Data/Information Fusion and detection technology in order to provide a mutual understanding of needs and capabilities related to Harbour protection.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Participants	p. xv
CEP and Transport PB&Cs	p. 1
Implementation of the ISPS Code in Norwegian Ports	p. 7
Practical Implementation of the ISPS Code in the French Seaports	p. 13
PBIST and Its Projects, with Focus on Port Security	p. 17
Implementation of the ISPS Code in the Russian Federation: Ships and Ports	p. 23
Steps to Better Waterside Port and Harbor Security: The Development of Regional Maritime Safety Systems in the Russian Federation	p. 27
Police National Maritime Security Strategy	p. 33
Harbour Protection in the Jordanian Port of Aqaba	p. 37
Feasibility Study on Surveillance and Interdiction Technologies for the Port of Halifax	p. 43
Maritime Surveillance Information Availability in Estonia	p. 53
Case Study: The Reality of DF Technology Transition for Maritime Domain Awareness with a Focus on Container Security	p. 61
Cerberus	p. 69
Emerging Sensor Technologies and Metrics for Harbour Security	p. 71
Low Power Modular Sonar Systems	p. 79
An Unconstrained View of the Employment and Exploitation of Defence Data Fusion Technologies for Harbour Protection	p. 87
An Approach to Threat Assessment	p. 95
Harbour Protection and Higher Level Fusion: Issues and Approaches	p. 109
Perceptual Reasoning Managed Situation Assessment for Harbour Protection	p. 119
Understanding Military Information Processing - An Approach to Support Intelligence in Defence and Security	p. 127
Applying Decision Support and Data/Information Fusion/Management Concepts for Emergency Response in the Context of Harbour Protection	p. 139
Analyses of the Concept of Trust in Information Fusion and Situation Assessment	p. 161
Issues with Developing Situation and Threat Assessment Capabilities	p. 171
Distributed Data Fusion and Maritime Domain Awareness for Harbour Protection	p. 181
Intelligent Geo-Information Systems and Harbour Protection	p. 191
Using Modeling and Simulation as a Framework for Testing New Solutions Devoted to Securing Global Flows of Goods and People	p. 199
Fusion of Information from Disparate Electro-Optical Imagers for Maritime Surveillance	p. 209
Automatic Video Surveillance of Harbour Structures	p. 223
Heterogeneous Sensors Data Fusion Issues for Harbour Security	p. 233
Ship Detection and Characterization Using Polarimetric SAR Data	p. 243
Quick Joint Detection and Fusion Applications in Passive Surveillance Systems	p. 251
The Quiet Interlude Processing System (QuIPS) - An Automated Data Fusion Capability for Littoral Environments	p. 259
Sensor Data Processing for Tracking Underwater Threats Using Terascale Optical Core Devices	p. 267
A New Neural Approach for Pattern Recognition in Space Imagery	p. 283
Concurrent Self-Organizing Maps - A Powerful Artificial Neural Tool for Biometric Technology	p. 291
Sensor-Fusion in Neural Networks	p. 299
Target Identification Based on DSmT	p. 307
Particle Filter Application to Localization	p. 317
Restrictive Estimation in Tracking Problems	p. 329
Findings of the NATO Workshop on Data Fusion Technologies for Harbour Protection	p. 337
Subject Index	p. 353
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