Harbour protection through data fusion technologies

An Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) "Data Fusion Technologies for Harbour Protection" was held in Tallinn, Estonia 27 June-1 July, 2005. This workshop was organized by request of the NATO Security Through Science Programme and the Defence Investment Division. An ARW is one of many types of funded group support mechanisms established by the NATO Science Committee to contribute to the critical assessment of existing knowledge on new important topics, to identify directions for future research, and to promote close working relationships between scientists from different countries and with different professional experiences. The NATO Science Committee was approved at a meeting of the Heads of Government of the Alliance in December 1957, subsequent to the 1956 recommendation of "Three Wise Men" - Foreign Ministers Lange (Norway), Martino (Italy) and Pearson (Canada) on Non-Military Cooperation in NATO. The NATO Science Committee established the NATO Science Programme in 1958 to encourage and support scientific collaboration between individual scientists and to foster scientific development in its member states. In 1999, following the end of the Cold War, the Science Programme was transformed so that support is now devoted to collaboration between Partner-country and NATO-country scientists or to contributing towards research support in Partner countries. Since 2004, the Science Programme was further modified to focus exclusively on NATO Priority Research Topics (i. e. Defence Against Terrorism or Countering Other Threats to Security) and also preferably on a Partner country priority area.

Andrzej JacuchErik OrbeckBernard DelsupexheRoberto BertiniSergei NovikovAlexander SokolovJames DouglassBassam KakishFrancine Desharnais and Dale Blodgett and Robert Bush and Robin Durnford and Bill YakamovichRein Haavel and Monika Oit and Aivar UskMichael MoskalAndrew B. Webb and William J. BorrowdaleRuth M. WoodwardMart RuutelJames LlinasAlan N. SteinbergGalina L. RogovaIvan KadarJoachim BiermannEloi Bosse and Jean RoyHasmik Atoyan and Elisa ShahbazianJean Couture and Eric MenardSimon J. Julier and Ranjeev MittuRuslan P. SorokinAgostino Bruzzone and Chiara BrianoMichael J. DeWeertLauro Snidaro and Gian Luca Foresti and Claudio PiciarelliStefano Piva and Matteo Gandetto and Reetu Singh and Carlo S. RegazzoniYannick Allard and Michael Germain and Olivier BonneauPierre Blanc-Benon and Nathalie Giordana and Yves ChocheyrasJames H. Wilson and Arvid MelkevikJacob Barhen and Neena ImamVictor-Emil Neagoe and Armand-Dragos RopotVictor-Emil Neagoe and Armand-Dragos RopotGunther Palm and Friedhelm SchwenkerAlbena Tchamova and Jean DezertEvgeni Kiriy and Hannah Michalska and Guy MichaudAndrey MakshanovElisa Shahbazian and Michael J. Deweert and Galina Rogova

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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