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   @inproceedings{sternlicht2016,
    title     = {Advanced sonar technologies for high clearance rate mine countermeasures},
    booktitle = {OCEANS 2016 MTS/IEEE Monterey},
    author    = {Daniel D. Sternlicht and Jose E. Fernandez and James L. Prater and Joshua N.
                 Weaver and Jason C. Isaacs and Thomas C. Montgomery and Charles M. Loeffler
                 and Michael Purcell},
    pages     = {1-8},
    month     = {September},
    year      = {2016},
    keywords  = {radar resolution;sonar;synthetic aperture radar;AUV;LC-SAS;SSAM III;acoustic
                spectroscopy;advanced sonar technologies;autonomous undersea vehicles;high
                clearance rate mine countermeasures;high-resolution imaging;lightweight
                conformal SAS;small synthetic aperture minehunter;target analysis;wideband
                synthetic aperture sonar systems;Acoustics;Apertures;Imaging;Synthetic
                aperture sonar;Target recognition;Vehicles;ATR;AUV;Automatic Target
                Recognition;Autonomous Undersea Vehicle;Autonomy;Change Detection;MCM;Mine
                Countermeasures;SAS;Side Scan Sonar;Synthetic Aperture Sonar},
    abstract  = {During 2014-2016 the office of Naval Research fielded two new wideband
                synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) systems: the third generation of the Small
                Synthetic Aperture Minehunter (SSAM III) and the Lightweight Conformal SAS
                (LC-SAS). These systems, collaboratively developed by the Naval Surface
                Warfare Center Panama City Division, the Applied Research Laboratory at Penn
                State University, and the Applied Research Laboratories at the University of
                Texas, were integrated on to REMUS 600 autonomous undersea vehicles (AUV)
                developed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Designed to increase
                area coverage rate and reduce false contact calls, both systems operate over a
                wide range of wavelengths and aspects: where centimeter-scale wavelengths are
                used for fine-detail imaging of the seabed and small objects that lay proud on
                it, and longer wavelengths, which can propagate deeper into the sediment
                volume, are used for imaging and spectroscopic analysis of proud and buried
                objects. The SSAM III is the first multi-band sonar that combines techniques
                for high-resolution imaging and target analysis via acoustic spectroscopy. The
                LC-SAS is a dual-band sensor that represents the longest (and thus longest
                range) SAS incorporated on a lightweight AUV to date, and marks the first time
                that a SAS has been integrated onto such a platform with a high-quality
                forward look sonar - in this case the Autonomous Topographic & Large Area
                Survey (ATLAS) sonar. The SSAM III and LC-SAS systems are reviewed, along with
                associated technologies and sensor modalities, which include image and
                spectral based processing, tomographic imaging, automated target recognition
                and seabed changed detection, and advanced autonomy via situational awareness
                provided by the sensors.}}