NATO SET Sensors & Electronics Technology

1. NATO SETSensors & Electronics Technology Marijke Vandewal Royal Military Academy 16 Feb 2011

2. Overview of the Belgian participation to SET • Belgian voting member: Dr Ir Marijke Vandewal (RMA) • Other Panel members: Prof. Emmanuel VAN LIL (KUL) Prof. Jacques VERLY (Ulg) • Participation to RTG and ET

3. Main focus groups of SET Panel SET Radar Frequency Technology Focus Group Multi-Sensors & Electronics Focus Group Optical Technology Focus Group • Ongoing activities • Technology watch list

4. BE participation in ET • SET-ET-072 “Thermal Hyperspectral Phenomenology and Exploitation” Michal Shimoni (TBC)

5. BE participation in RTG • SET-124 “THz Wave Technology for Standoff Detection of Explosives and other Military & Security Applications” Ended in Dec 2010 (waiting for final report) • SET-143 “Radar and Infrared Synergy for Military Situation Awareness" Alexander Borghgraef (RMA) • SET-144 “Mitigation of Ship Electro-Optical Susceptibility Against Conventional and Asymmetric Threats” Fabian Lapierre (RMA) • SET-145 “High Resolution Space-Borne SAR systems for Geospatial Intelligence” Dirk Borghys (RMA)

6. BE participation in RTG • SET-147 “Microsatellites and Surveillance of Space” Col Erwin Duhamel (ESA) • SET-164 “Advanced Modeling and System Applications for Passive Radar Sensor” Lt Virginie Kubica (RMA) • SET-167 “Navigation Sensors and Systems in GNSS denied environments” Prof. Alain Muls (RMA)

7. Interesting conferences • SET-116 / RLS “Low Cost Navigation Sensors and Integration Technology” (4-5 April 2011, Italy) • SET-157 / RLS “Multisensor Fusion: Advanced Methodology and Applications (6-7 June 2011, Portugal) • SET-172 / RLS”Radar Automatic Target Recognition and Non-Cooperative Target Detection” (7-8 July 2011, UK)

8. Next SET PBM The 26th – Fall 2010 meeting took place in Greece 13-15 October 2010 in conjunction with the SM SET-160 on "NCI/ATR in Air, Ground and Maritime Applications based on Radar and Acoustics". The 27th – Spring 2011 meeting will take place in Denmark 6-8 June 2011 in conjunction with the SM SET-175 “Countering Improvised Explosive Devices in a Long-Term Perspective”.

9. Radar Frequency Technology FG

10. Optical Technology FG

11. Multi-Sensors & Electronics FG

12. NATO SET If enough supporting countries: start of an Exploratory Team Top-Down Subject proposed by other SET Panel member Subject communicated through SET Panel member at Panel Business Meeting Subject communicated within nations Belgian Defense Study will kick-off Existing Belgian Defense Study within proposed subject Bottom-Up

13. NATO SET Why bother participating a SET-XX? • International collaborations • Collaboration with Americans • Possibility of organizing measurement campaigns (up to 25 k€ per campaign fundable by NATO) • “Easy” administrative procedure • Interesting Lecture Series on specific topics

14. General Comments - High amount of information during PBM - Need to create better overview of BEL participation in SET activities - How to contact other universities/get overview of their participation Niches • - LIDAR systems and signal processing • - Fusion of LIDAR with other sensors • - Build-up of knowledge by End-of-Study Work • - Need for a new niche?

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