Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

ANR Propagation (2010-2012)

To combat dramatic event such as happened in Bombay last year (coming from the sea, a terrorist commando killed more than 200 peoples in Bombay city), authorities are decided to deploy efficient sea surveillance system to protect coastal zone including sensitive infrastructures often in vicinity of important cities.

Regulation on frequencies allocation and on coastal constructions is strong constraint to be taken into account to install technical capabilities to permanently survey vulnerable littoral zones. For example, new active sensor shall be frequencies compatible within numerous existing ones in inhabited region. In this context to perform coastal surveillance, attractive solution is to deploy passive sensors networks because:

• Not necessarily compatible within existing active sensors network.

• Provide large possibilities to install the passive sensors, because, it is not needed to be on the shoreline, but can be deployed inside the territory. Such as facility offers more potential sites and then, to optimise the deployment for optimal coverage of the sensitive zone.

• Is totally undetectable by external technical means in hand of structured criminal organisations.

For these objectives, the PROPAGATION project will study, develop and experiment a demonstrator to carry out maritime traffic picture from a set of passive sensors: passive radar, AIS and optronic cameras deployed over a coastal site. This is a joint ANR project with DCNS, Thalès, Ecomer and Exavision, accepted in 2009 .

Project PEPII

This is an interdisciplinary exploratory research project, between Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux and Laboratory Ecologie & Evolution, UMR 7625 CNRS-UMPC-ENS (responsible: B. Cazelles ). The objective of this project on the dynamics of epidemic diseases characterized by multiple strains of pathogens, is to use the competencies of the ALEA team to get efficient Bayesian optimization techniques. An opening workshop on stochastic models and bayesian inference in epidemiology has been organized in Bordeaux in November 2011.