Whale Search Radar

Society’s environmental concern of possible harm to marine mammals from a number of man-made factors, including man-made sound sources in the sea, has culminated in the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA). As a consequence the US Navy faces the challenge of continuance of open ocean anti-submarine warfare training, which generates substantial artificial sound from various Sonar systems, while maintaining compliance with the MMPA. This program facilitates detection and tracking of whales over very wide areas at low cost by developing a Whale Search Radar. The system provides whale presence indications over very large areas quickly and inexpensively using methods that do not disturb the whales, thus providing marine mammal protection and facilitating “at sea” training.