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To increase underwater supervision technologies in India and Australia, a three -year joint research project has launched.
The aim of the inauguration project is to improve early detection and monitoring of submarines and autonomous underwater vehicles.
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Australian Government, the agreement outlines a three -year joint research project between the Information Sciences Division on Defense and Technology (DSTG) and its Indian Agency of the counterpart, the naval physical and oceanographic laboratory of defense research and development.
The research of the top level explores by analyzing the target field movement to improve the reliability, efficiency and interoperability of the current supervision capabilities.
The leader of the discipline in the DSTG Information Sciences Division Amanda Bessell said that the analysis of the target movement is a collective term for algorithms of target monitoring, developed to estimate the state of the moving goal.
“The target movement analysis is a key element in maintaining a situation awareness of the platform when passive traffic regime is required,” Mrs. Bessll said.
This research project is unique in the way it uses a signal processing system based on drawn fields.
Senior researcher DSTG, Sanjeev ARURIPLAM, explained that the towed field consisted of a long linear field of hydrophones, towed by a submarine or a surface ship on a flexible cable.
“Hydrophones work together to listen to the underwater environment from different directions,” he said. “The audio signal passes through the signaling processor that analyzes, filters and detects underwater acoustic signals emitted from maritime targets.”
The purpose of a combination of target movement analysis with the towing field is to control noise corruption and explore the possible performance improvement.
The joint project will test new algorithms using strengths and shared knowledge of both countries.
“The project organization will include sharing ideas, investigative experiments, demonstrations of algorithms and performance analysis,” said Aruprilampam.
With the extent of a change in the underwater battle space, including the increased use of autonomous vehicles, the priority is to improve supervision capabilities.
“The output of this research program has the potential to lead the development of future algorithmic directions for our supervision technologies over the underwater combat system,” said the division of the main information science, Suneel Randhawa.
The use of international partnerships allows defense to access a larger number of expertise, infrastructure and technical data that help solve mutual problems and provide innovative technologies.
“We must use the best minds in innovation, science and technology to build new abilities, innovate greater pace and strengthen our strategic partnership,” Randhawa said.
This project is the latest milestone in growing cooperation with awareness of the naval domain between Australia and India.
Published – 3 July 2025 9:27
