There is a continuing interest in the airborne and in-water surveillance and sensing of the littoral ocean, the bottom, and submerged objects. Advances in modern technology have supplied new devices and techniques. Modern lasers and imagers are smaller and cost less but have higher power and sensitivity than past devices.
Modern computers can rapidly process the enormous amount of data from a modern imager.
New versions of airborne and underwater imagers are in continuing states of production and evaluation by the U.S. Navy, et al. The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers and system designers who are involved in the development of devices for imaging natural and manmade in-water objects to discuss their work and share ideas and discoveries pertinent to the topic.