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Robotic boats help US waterway security
International Boat Industry News ^
| Mar 17, 2004
Posted on 03/18/2004 11:01:09 AM PST by John Jorsett
Increased attention to homeland security has resulted in a new focus on protecting the nearly 400 US ports.
MRV International, an innovative marine technology company, is providing state-of-the-art software and hardware for robotic USVs (unmanned surface vessels) to man the US's harbours and waterways.
Operating as autonomous marine robotic platforms, the USVs use MRV's new-generation software for remote command and control, navigation, route planning, event and crisis management, onboard diagnostics and other functions. Linked with broadband wireless telemetry, the USVs can be operated from virtually anywhere in the world via the Internet.
To identify terrorism threats, the USVs can be equipped with radar, sonar, and video surveillance capabilities, as well as on-site, automated chemical, biological and radiological analysis. The all-weather, day-and-night robot boats also have application in piracy, narcotics interdiction, illegal immigration, chemical and radiological spill detection and many other areas.
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: homelandsecurity; maritime; miltech; mrv; robot; surveillance; usv
To: John Jorsett
Now we need to mount them with HARM missiles or Tomohawks or super-cavitating torpedos.
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posted on
03/18/2004 11:04:47 AM PST
by
Asclepius
(karma vigilante)
To: John Jorsett
Neat!!
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posted on
03/18/2004 11:12:03 AM PST
by
syriacus
(Lend a moment of silence, for those who starved in Iraq, due to corrupt UN OIL FOR FOOD program)
To: John Jorsett
"...(unmanned surface vessels) to man the US's harbours and waterways."Anyone else see the irony here?
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posted on
03/18/2004 11:15:41 AM PST
by
Redbob
(ultrakonservativen click-guerilla)
To: John Jorsett
Robotics might have an application keeping squirrels off the roof. Unfortunately, a squirrelbot would probably attract ravens, so it would have to be armored.
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posted on
03/18/2004 11:20:29 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
To: Ramius
ping
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posted on
03/18/2004 11:22:11 AM PST
by
Professional Engineer
(3/11/04 saw the launching of the Moorish reconquest of Spain.)
To: John Jorsett
I can appreciate the Coast Guard's efforts, but harbour patrols should be assigned to the true professionals:
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posted on
03/18/2004 11:29:49 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
(Guess who admitted she was happy at hearing the news of JFK's assissination?)
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