UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII THE SCHOOL OF OCEAN AND EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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• Department of Defense
• Department of Homeland Security

Mission and Goals Attract funding for
dual-use technologies that benefit both basic
research and national security objectives.
Expand cooperative projects between UH, USCG,
DoD, and local small businesses. Tend to be
shorter term (3-5 year) projects with
deliverables. Transition is the buzzword.
Integrate with the UARC.
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• Personnel vary by project - presently including
• Chemical Weapons Dumps - DeCarlo, Edwards,
  McMurty, Merrifield, Wilkens, HURL, Environet,
  ECBC (Army)
• Counter Mine Warfare - Merrifield, Pawlak,
  Wilkens, JHU/APL, NRL
• DHS Maritime Domain Awareness Center -
• Crouch (Eng), Allen (Eng), Edwards, Flament,
  Iskander (Eng), Nosal, Wilkens, Wright, UW/APL,
  U. Alaska, U. Puerto Rico
• Optical IR Remote Sensing - (0.9 FTE)
• Faculty Shiv Sharma, Paul Lucey, Anupam Misra,
  Barry Leinert, John Porter
• Post-docs Mike Winter, Karen Stockstill, David
  Bates
• Engineers Tim Williams, Mark Wood, Mike Winter,
  Jeff Bosel
• Graduate Students Josh Cahill, Miriam Riner

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Extramural funding in effect Optical
IR 2003-2007 61 grants and contracts,
9.86M Counter Mine Warfare 200,000 -
ONR Chemical Munitions Survey 1.975 million -
ARMY DHS Center (Pending) 3 million/yr for 5
yrs. 50 to UH
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• Instrumentation Acquired
• REMUS 100 AUV, LBV 150 small ROV, Profiling
  Current Meter, Short Baseline Navigation System,
  Sector and Line Scanning Sonars
• Support Provided
• Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy
  Laboratory-- Sharma lead
• Spectral Technology Group--Lucey lead
• Kilo Nalu through ONR work and (proposed) DHS
  studies.
• HMRG, HURL through CW work.

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Optical and IR Remote Sensing
Major Results Detection of high explosives at
ranges of 200m using remote Raman
spectroscopy Detection of buried land mines and
IEDs from vehicles and aircraft using
ultra-lightweight sensors developed at UH
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Infrared Remote Sensing Major Areas

• Phenomenology studies
• Algorithm development and data collection for
  detection of buried land mines, IEDs, camouflage,
  chemical weapons, drug labs
• Sponsors
• National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
• Various large aerospace contractors
• US Army
• Civil sponsors NASA, EPA
• Sensor Development
• Ultra-lightweight IR spectrometers
• IR projectors for sensor testing
• Sponsor US Army

Camouflaged Target Detection
Buried Land Mines
EthylGPE
Benzene
Recent Cross-desert Traffic
Gas Detection
UH Airborne Experiments
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Remote Raman Detection of Explosives at 125-m
Field Test during Mojave dust storm
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Mine Burial Prediction Validation studies of an
MBP expert system
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Hawaii Undersea Military Munitions Assessment
Nov. 1944 - 16,000 100lb Mustard Gas Bombs dumped
5 miles south of Pearl Harbor
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National Center for Island, Maritime, and Extreme
Environment Security (CIMES)
Research Priorities Maritime Domain
Awareness Surveillance Tracking Screening
Scanning Data Fusion Analysis Marine
Transportation System Security Enhance Supply
Chain Transparency Maritime Offshore Critical
Infrastructure Protection Maritime Recovery
Resilience Catastrophic Maritime Events in
Extreme Environments Maritime Risk, Policy, and
International Governance Maritime Risk
Management Maritime Policy legal
Analysis Maritime International Governance
Cooperation Maritime Enforcement, Operations,
CCC Maritime Enforcement Operational
Analysis Command, Control, Communications