NATO SET

Sensors & Electronics Technology

Marijke VandewalRoyal Military Academy

16 Feb 2011

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

Main focus groups of SET Panel

SET

Optical Technology Focus Group

Multi-Sensors & Electronics Focus Group

Radar Frequency Technology Focus Group

• Ongoing activities

• Technology watch list

BE participation in ET

• SET-ET-072 “Thermal Hyperspectral Phenomenology and Exploitation”

Michal Shimoni (TBC)

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)

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)

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)

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”.

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Radar Frequency Technology FG

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Optical Technology FG

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Multi-Sensors & Electronics FG

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NATO SET

Top-Down

Bottom-Up

Subject proposed by other SET Panel member

Subject communicated within nations

Existing Belgian Defense Study within proposed

subject

Belgian Defense Study will kick-off

Subject communicated through SET Panel member at Panel Business Meeting

If enough supporting countries: start of an Exploratory Team

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NATO SET

• 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

Why bother participating a SET-XX?

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?

16 Feb 2011

Questions ?