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The underwater soundscape of the North Sea
(2024-01)As awareness on the impact of anthropogenic underwater noise on marine life grows, underwater noise measurement programs are needed to determine the current status of marine areas and monitor long-term trends. The Joint ... -
Multifaceted Conscription: A Comparative Study of Six European Countries
(2024-03-05)Although the last few decades have witnessed a shift from conscription to allvolunteer forces in many European countries, recent changes in the European security environment have raised new concerns and prompted several ... -
Accumulation of copper and lead in ruminants grazing on a contaminated shooting range in Nordland County, Norway
(2024)Shooting ranges contain copper (Cu) and lead (Pb) contamination, which can be a risk for grazing ruminants. This study examines the accumulation of lead and copper in blood of lambs and calves, as well as in the liver of ... -
The characteristics of successful military IT projects: a cross-country empirical study
(2023)In the armed forces, successful digitalizationis crucial to ensure effective operations. Much of the existing literature on project factors during the planning and execution phases of public IT projects do not focus ... -
Increased impact sensitivity in ageing high explosives; analysis of Amatol extracted from explosive remnants of war
(2024-03-27)Millions of tonnes of explosive remnants of war remain in nature, and the volume is continuously growing. The explosive legacy of wars represents an increasing threat to the environment and to societal safety and security. ... -
Camouflage performance of winter uniforms: photosimulations in the visual spectrum
(2023-10-23)Minimizing electro-optical signatures of soldiers against modern sensors is a challenging task, but a task with high importance and benefits for operative soldiers that need to stay undetected. Optimizing camouflage uniforms ... -
Optical turbulence on 1-km horizontal path with short and medium IR Gaussian laser beams
(2023-10-19)We have investigated effects of optical turbulence on laser beams with wavelengths of λ = 1064 nm and 2036 nm. The two laser beams (one diode and one thulium fiber laser) were expanded to 7 cm diameter through a common ... -
Spectral reflectance properties of sand layers covering an underlying target: experimental measurements and mathematical modelling
(2023-10-23)Adapting to natural backgrounds is important, yet very difficult, to achieve effective camouflage. One interesting aspect is the optical depth of biomaterials as a function of both geographical region, in which the ... -
War and the Willingness to Resist and Fight in Ukraine
(2023-12-05)This study explores the effects of Russia's use of military force on the Ukrainian willingness to fight and resist. We find assumptions from the theoretical literature on the willingness to fight of limited relevance. ... -
RIMFAX Ground Penetrating Radar Reveals Dielectric Permittivity and Rock Density of Shallow Martian Subsurface
(2023-06-02)The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is equipped with the RIMFAX ground penetrating radar instrument which has been continuously surveying the shallow subsurface during the rover's journey. Within the first 379 mission ... -
The impacts of scene stability and acoustic backscatter coherence on automated seabed change detection
(2023-09)Practical implementation of long-term seabed monitoring for civilian and military activities requires automated tools for detecting temporal seabed changes, such as for detection of new trawling activities or mine-like ... -
Challenges of Automated Change Detection in Repeat-pass Synthetic Aperture Sonar Imagery
(2023)Change detection extracts regions of interest as temporal differences by imaging a scene before and after changes may have occurred. We denote the initial image as the reference and the more recent as the current image. ... -
A wavelet schrinkage approach to detect candidate point scatterers in synthetic aperture sonar images for resolution estimation
(2023)Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) that are equipped with side-looking synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) have become a popular asset for efficient high resolution imaging and mapping of the seafloor. There are situations ... -
Comparison of model selection techniques for seafloor scattering statistics
(2023)Acoustic measurements of seafloor backscattering are a source of unwanted sound in seafloor object detection1–3, but also provide a rich set of information regarding the seafloor properties and structure4–7. The intensity ... -
Uncertainty quantification with deep learning through variational inference with applications to synthetic aperture sonar
(2023)Deep learning (DL) has gained popularity in applications and research within the active sonar community both in academic and commercial settings due to the ability of such models to learn complex non-linear relationships ... -
A Study on the Effect of Commonly Used Data Augmentation Techniques on Sonar Image Artifact Detection Using Deep Neural Networks
(2023-10-20)This paper presents an empirical study that evaluates the impact of different types of augmentations on the performance of Deep Learning (DL) models for detecting imaging artifacts in Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS) imagery. ... -
Space-Based AIS with a Norwegian Small-Satellite Constellation
(2023)Over the past couple of decades, small satellites have evolved from demonstrators to operational assets to enable low-cost space access for government services and commercial service providers. The Norwegian AIS constellation ... -
Bacterial Brain Abscesses Expand Despite Effective AntibioticTreatment: A Process Powered by Osmosis Due to NeutrophilCell Death
(2023-12-12)BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: A bacterial brain abscess is an emergency and should be drained of pus within 24 hours of diagnosis, as recently recommended. In this cross-sectional study, we investigated whether delaying ... -
War in Europe, but Still Low Tension in the High North? An Analysis of Norwegian Mitigation Strategies
(2024)Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created the most precarious security situation in Europe, including the High North, since the Second World War. This article studies how Norway manages High North security dilemmas in the ... -
Jammertest 2022: Jamming and Spoofing Lessons Learned
(2023-10-29)Jammertest 2022 was a week-long series of satellite navigation and timing signal jamming and spoofing exercises carried out on the Norwegian island of Andøya in September of 2022. Organized via a collaboration between the ...