The Center for Island, Maritime and Extreme Environment Security CIMES

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The Center for Island, Maritimeand Extreme
Environment Security (CIMES)

• OverviewPeter E. Crouch
• Dean College of Engineering
• University of Hawaii
• 03/13/08

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Department of Homeland SecurityScience and
Technology Directorate

• Explosives
• Chemical / Biological
• Command, Control Interoperability
• Boarders and Maritime
• Human Factors
• Infrastructure Protection Geophysical Science

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Existing DHS ST centers

• CREATE USC
• Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism
• NCFPD Univ. Minnesota
• Food Protection
• FAZD Texas AM
• Animal Disease Defense
• START Univ. Maryland
• Terrorism

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Existing DHS ST centers

• PACER Johns Hopkins
• Catastrophic Event Preparedness
• CAMRA Michigan State
• Bioterrorism
• IDS-UACs Rutgers , USC, Illinois and Pittsburgh
• Informational Analysis and Computation
• RVACs Penn State, Purdue, Stanford, N. Carolina
  Charlotte, Univ. Washington
• Visualization

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10 New DHS ST Paired -Centers

• Center of Excellence for Border Security and
  Immigration
• University of Arizona at Tucson and University
  of Texas at El Paso
• Center of Excellence for Explosives Detection,
  Mitigation and Response
• Northeastern University in Boston, and
  University of Rhode Island
• Center of Excellence for Maritime, Island and
  Port Security
• University of Hawaii and Stevens Institute of
  Technology
• Center of Excellence for Natural Disasters, Coast
  Infrastructure and Emergency Management
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
  Jackson State University
• Center of Excellence for Transportation Security
• Texas Southern University in Houston, Tougaloo
  College in Tougaloo and University of Connecticut

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CIMES Collaborating Institutions

• Core Partners
• University of Hawaii
• Applied Physics Laboratory and College of
  Engineering, University of Washington
• University of Alaska Fairbanks
• University Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
• Collaborators
• University of Alaska Anchorage
• Pacific Disaster Center
• Maui High Performance Computer Center
• Intelesence Technologies

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CIMES Affiliates

• National Center for Maritime and Port Security,
  SRI International Marine Technology Program.
  (Globally recognized capability in underwater
  chemical and biological sensing, underwater
  imaging, unmanned underwater vehicles, and
  specialized marine research).
• Navatek Ships. (Research and development of
  manned/unmanned surface vehicles, deploy and
  maintain prototypes of sea based sensing
  systems).
• Trex Enterprises Corporation. (Provides expertise
  in microwave sensing, high resolution imaging,
  digital signal processing, applied optics and
  materials).
• Southwest Public Safety Technology Center,
  University of Houston. (Serves the first
  responder and public safety community in major
  interdisciplinary research areas of surveillance
  and security systems, enabling technologies and
  human behavior, integrating engineering, social
  sciences, computer science, and life science).
• Center of Homeland Security, University of
  Colorado at Colorado Springs. (Recognized
  national leader in homeland defense education,
  provides relationship with the United States
  Northern Command grounded in both joint education
  and research initiatives, provides active
  research in physical security technologies and
  security policy related to MDA).

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CIMES Affiliates

• Referentia Systems Incorporated. (Provides
  technologies and capabilities that support DoD
  C41 programs, in Net-Centric Command and Control,
  Mission Planning and Situational Awareness, Data
  fusion and Signal Processing).
• Consortium led by School of Engineering,
  University of Santa Cruz. (Provides access to
  many California Institutions and the Monterey Bay
  arena, and research programs emphasizing critical
  technologies for MDA including detection,
  monitoring, tracking, surveillance).
• Center for Remote Imaging, Sensing and
  Processing, National University of Singapore.
  (Provides access to a major Asian port and
  associated security challenges, and research on
  remote sensing that meets the needs of the
  scientific, operational and business requirements
  of Singapore and the region).
• Pacific Telehealth and Technology Hui,
  Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research
  Center, US Army Medical Research and Materiel
  Command. (Provides metrics for evaluating success
  of proposed objectives and provides access to
  Army research in areas of interest to DHS).

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Key Administrative Personnel

• Dr. Roy Wilkens (UH) CIMES Center Director
• Dr. James Gaines (UH) Administrative PI
• Dr. Peter Crouch (UH) Chair Steering Committee
• Dr. David Martin (UW/APL) UW Co-Director
• Dr. Buck Sharpton (UA) UA Co-Director
• Dr. Jose Colucci (UPRM) UPRM Co-Director

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Research Areas and PIs

• Satellite Detection and Tracking of Ships in the
  Tropical and Polar Oceans - Rob Wright (UH), Tom
  Heinrichs (UAF), Miguel Velez-Reyes (UPRM), Kevin
  Engle (UAF), Buck Sharpton (UAF)
• Coastal Radars, Tropical and Arctic - Pierre
  Flament (UH), Hajo Eicken (UAF), Magdy Iskander
  (UH), Sungkyun Lim (UH), Mark Johnson (UAF), Tom
  Weingartner (UAF)
• Harbor Acoustic Monitoring Systems Coherent
  Microwave Radar - William Plant (UW/APL), John
  Allen III (UH), Eva Nosal (UH)
• Decision Support Systems - David Jones (UW/APL),
  Kevin Montgomery (Intelesence/UH)

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Detection of ships via their wakes seen in
satellite data
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Requirements for remote detection of ships using
an optical remote sensing system
Step 2 Design UH space missions
Step 1 Acquire high spectral/spatial/radiometri
c resolution data from an airborne sensor
Using these high resolution reference data, we
can determine the spatial, spectral, radiometric
and temporal resolution necessary to detect ship
wakes using an optical remote sensing instrument

• UH to become the gateway for university-class
  and small satellite space access.
• Partner with Pacific Missile Range, Kauai
• Will send 300 kg to low-Earth orbit (400 km) or
  225 kg to mid-orbit (700 km)

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HF Radars - Comparison with Navy Operational Model
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Development of antennas for HF radar applications
Conventional monopole h ?/4 (5 m at 15 MHz,
15 m at 5 MHz) electrically small monopoles h
ltlt ?/4 Advantages low cost, low environmental
impact, reduced risk of vandalism, easier
permitting, fast deployment Past attempts
resonant f depends on detailed geometry, ground
and environment
Existing antennas deployed on W. Oahu
Meander line 12 MHz antenna, Bonner, SONDRA, 2006
(too unstable)
Spiral 27 MHz antenna, Rogers and Buhl, ARL/UTA,
2001 (too narrow band)
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U.S. coastal offshore oil gas development in
Arctic

• Vessel traffic through Bering Strait (Russian
  waters) several hundred in past season,
  increasing traffic associated with oil gas
  development, tourism, etc. into U.S. Arctic
• Offshore development in early stages, with
  potentially challenging ice conditions to contend
  with
• Central role of USCG hampered by lack of assets
  rapidity of change
• Needed A monitoring tracking system that
  provides information to USCG other agencies
  critical to maritime domain awareness and
  disaster response

First Arctic Federal offshore oil gas leases
sold in 2005 are located in the highly dynamic
ice transition zone, with recent sea-ice change
posing further challenges due to ice
instability Further lease sales in Beaufort and
Chukchi Sea scheduled for 2008 (MMS, 2005)
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Improving cold-regions maritime domain awareness

• Coastal radar (sub-km scale) Vessel ice
  tracking, ice dynamics potential disaster
  response
• Aerial surveys, ice sub-ice sensor systems
• Local knowledge Potentially important role for
  disaster response
• Integration of data streams, GIS-based decision
  support systems
• Leveraged through integration assimilation
  of existing ocean observing system resources
  (AOOS.org)

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Proposed Hydrophone and Transducer Arrays Off
Honolulu Harbor
Initial Deployment
Second Deployment
All Data - both acoustic and environmental - will
be delivered to shore in real-time through the
Kilo Nalu Offshore Observatory
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Comparison of Passive Acoustic Methods
Automated Real-Time Detection Classification Tr
acking Pair-wise Processing for - Unknown
Source Signatures - Multiple Targets - Shallow
Water - Noise - High Frequency
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Data Fusion Example for MDA

• System Design Focus
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) - improves
  understanding of the best ways to convey
  information via computers
• User Centered Design (UCD) - puts human factors
  guidelines into practice multi-disciplinary
  approach
• Example
• The Boater Information System (BIS) a web-based
  data fusion and decision support system
• Supported by a NOAA/Washington Sea Grant
• Designed for Puget Sound boaters.
• Tool design based on surveys, advisory board (a
  range of boating types) and user evaluations.
• Allows greater interactivity with environmental
  forecast information (winds, temperature, tides
  and currents)

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Boater Information System
Fusion of forecasted wind Information User
specified thresholding (red/yellow
shading) Looping through time windows
Fusion of tidal current forecasts and marina
locations Interactive by location and
time Route Planning Allows better decision
making
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Data Fusion

• External Data Sources

InteleCell / InteleNet

• In-Situ Sensors
• Multiparameter sensors
• Remote sensor network
• Local intelligence

InteleView

• Display Dissemination
• GIS-based display over web
• Custom, secure online views
• Collaboration tools

Intelesense Server

• Server Integration Analysis
• Integration of disparate data sources
• Algorithms to analyze data
• Input for future modeling and sim

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Collaboration with Industry (Maui Land
Pineapple), and K-12 Academia (Maui Prep Academy)
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Some Issues

• Need to work with Stevens Institute closely
  Stevens focused more on Ports, Hawaii focused
  more on blue water
• How to work with the Department of Defense
  especially the Navy? Lots of access to
  personnel here in Hawaii (US Navys Pacific
  Command)
• Very interested in setting up relations with
  similar groups in other Asian countries may be
  world wide have only NUS Singapore at present
• Interested in how to integrate CIMES technology
  research into areas of Policy Law Social
  Science through other DHS Centers and other
  relationships

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Some Issues

• DHS views CIMES as a mechanism to attract a lot
  of additional funding through DHS and DoD (using
  UH UARC)
• Need to provide curriculum for students
  (Generate the future DHS workforce)
• Need to service the DHS main maritime customer
  US Coast Guard (not as experienced in
  procuring/managing ST as DoD)
• Need to provide training for First Responders