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Distant Thunder
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Distant Thunder is an advanced, multistatic, active sonar system developed under the sponsorship of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and now sponsored by NAVSEA PEO-IWS5. Distant Thunder provides rapid area search and localization capability through coordinated use of US Navy ship and aircraft sensors to detect quiet diesel-electric submarines operating in acoustically adverse littoral waters with connectivity for sharing data among platforms.
Distant Thunder Features and Benefits
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Features |
Benefits |
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Wide band acoustic sources |
Sonar processing and display systems are deployable from multiple ships and aircraft |
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COTS hardware and open system architecture |
Runs cost-efficiently on Windows NT and is portable to laptops |
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Preprocesses data |
Reduces work load of operators so they can concentrate on areas where they can be most effective |
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Includes a library of sonar signal processing modules |
Increases reusability of existing code |
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Display processing environment written in C++ |
Enables easy development of information processing algorithms and graphical user interfaces |
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Neural network |
Distinguishes echoes produced by submarines from the intense acoustic clutter of the shallow water environment |
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Integrated signals |
Provides the best quality data to all ships on the network regardless of orientation in relation to the signal |
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Direct data flow to the ships' processing suites |
Ships receive the data quickly, making it more likely that they will be able to use the data to cue ASW weapons |
