Center for Coastline Security Technology Year 1 (CD-ROM)

Abstract : ELECTRONIC FILE CHARACTERISTICS: 12 files; Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) and MS Word (.DOC). PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 CD-ROM; 4 3/4 in.; 120 MB. ABSTRACT: The Center for Coastline Security Technology (CCST) focuses on research, simulation, and evaluation of coastal defense and marine domain awareness equipment, sensors and components. It builds upon the existing efforts and expertise in coastal systems and sensor research at the Institute for Ocean and Systems Engineering (IOSE), the Imaging Technology Center, the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and the University Consortium for Intermodal Transportation Safety and Security at Florida Atlantic University. New technologies are needed to enhance surveillance and inspections of marine activities in the coastal zone that includes major ports, small inlets, beaches, remote coastal areas and their approaches. To be efficient and cost effective it is imperative to mount the surveillance systems and sensors on autonomous platforms that can operate unsupervised for extended periods of time. The task is to effectively integrate sensors with underwater, surface and airborne autonomous and remotely operated platforms and to incorporate video and image analysis and data mining methods to quickly and effectively identify threat events. These algorithms will automatically detect moving objects of interest, identify their location, track them through a video sequence, and classify them into semantic categories. In addition this group has unique resources and state-of-the-art capabilities in the area of real time 3D/4D virtual simulation that can be used to evaluate coastline security technologies and systems prior to deployment, and to carry out threat analysis using simulation for both training and exercises.