Maritime Acoustic Symposium

Akoostix will be participating in the Acoustic Data Analysis Centre’s Maritime Acoustic Symposium from Sep 14 to Sep 17, 2010 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Our team is directly involved with three presentations, developed in collaboration with DRDC scientists, while we are supporting a number of other presentations related to autonomous sensing, marine mammal detection and environmental/target characterization:

  • Murphy, S.M., Hines, P.C., Hood, J., An Integrated Tracker and Aural Classifier for Anti-Submarine Warfare
  • Hood, J., Bougher, B., Theriault, J., Advanced Passive Processing – What are we missing?
  • Theriault, J., Hood, J., Collison, N., Sorting through the clutter: Improved Operator Decision Aids
Published by on Sep 10th, 2010 Posted in Conference, Technical

Spring Update – 2010

Akoostix is moving into its fifth year of business and is going strong. We successfully and efficiently completed all contracts prior to government year-end, during our busiest quarter ever. (more…)

Published by on Mar 31st, 2010 Posted in Update

Maritime Acoustic Symposium

Akoostix will sponsor the Maritime Acoustic Symposium organized and hosted by the Acoustic Data Analysis Centre – Atlantic. This bi-annual event brings together military and civilian experts in the field of underwater acoustics from around the world. During the symposium Akoostix will co-present “Mitigating Multistatic Active Sonar Operator Overload using Clutter Displays” with DRDC Atlantic scientist Nicole Collison.

Published by on Jun 10th, 2007 Posted in Conference, Technical

Fighting Operator Overload – Contract Award

Today Akoostix Inc. announces its successful win of the competitive bid for Fighting Operator Overload. This project focuses on examining the reduction in acoustic operator’s overload. The overload resulted from increases in system performance, processing improvements, and the introduction of new analysis tools. Specifically, the goal is to show how localization aids and clutter tools can be integrated to improve overall system performance and reduce operator overload. These tools – the localization and clutter algorithms – have been developed at DRDC Atlantic and incorporated into the Software Tools for Analysis and Research (STAR) suite over the past three years. Initial evidence of the usefulness of these tools has been demonstrated during STAR preliminary analysis of real data. Now the STAR tools will be used for more in-depth data analysis centered on standard measures of performance, such as probability of detection, probability of false alarm, and time to detection. The result will be a more quantitative measure of the tools’ effectiveness towards mitigating operator overload. Akoostix has teamed with Human Systems Incorporated who will provide expertise and consulting on human factors engineering.

Published by on Dec 19th, 2006 Posted in Contract Award