Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K. Sivan will inaugurate an international conference on sonar systems and sensors, ICONS-2018, organised by the Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory (NPOL), at Angamaly on February 22. S. Christopher, Secretary (Defence Research and Development), will preside over the event.
Arogyaswami J. Paulraj from Stanford University, a Padma Bhushan awardee and recipient of Marconi Prize and Alexander Graham Bell Award, and John Summerscales from the School of Engineering at Plymouth University in the United Kingdom, will deliver keynote addresses on the first and second days of the conference respectively.
The three-day meet aims to pool the knowledge in the domain of sonar and underwater sensors, underwater surveillance and communications from across the world. It will have scientific sessions on 11 broad themes which will run in four parallel tracks.
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A technology exhibition is also planned alongside, with participation from all major industries working in the technology spectrum of sonar and underwater systems, the organisers said. NPOL Director S. Kedarnath Shenoy said the laboratory focused on R&D in signal processing and imaging, underwater acoustics, electronics, engineering systems, transducers, materials and oceanography. The laboratory has developed hull-mounted sonars for ships and submarines, towed array sonars and airborne sonars for the Indian Navy.