Satellites and mobile phones, built on international standards, help the world get connected. But the communications technology we use on land does not work well underwater. As water covers over 70 percent of the earth's surface, NATO has sponsored research into establishing the first ever digital underwater communications standard.
The NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) located in La Spezia, Italy, has developed a standard for underwater acoustic communications called JANUS, which has now been recognized as a NATO standard by all NATO Allies. This marks the first time ever for a digital underwater communication protocol to be acknowledged at international level and opens the way to develop many exciting underwater communication applications.
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INTERVIEW LTCDR BAPTISTA PEREIRA, SUBMARINE SQUADRON CHIEF OF STAFF DURING REP14-ATLANTIC, PORTUGUESE NAVY
1. (00:00-00:20) So, all the robotics, all the electronics, all the software that are developed to make vehicles that are made to perform surveillance in a maritime environment, which are mainly done during the year in a lab, closed environment, they need to be proven at sea in a real scenario.
2. (00:20-00:34)These assets are made basically for antisubmarine warfare, anti-mine warfare, maritime environment, and maritime security, law enforcement at sea, search and rescue operations.
3. (00:34-01:04) We also provide for CMRE, we provided a submarine, an high-tech submarine, to allow CMRE to perform the acoustic underwater trials, the acoustic trials regarding the communications in digital format to underwater communications. And also the cooperative antisubmarine warfare. So basically the submarine provides the target for CMRE scientists to improve their concept of operations regarding the future of antisubmarine warfare using multistatic system, and multistatic system based on autonomous underwater vehicles. That’s what the Portuguese Navy provided to this exercise.
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