Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE

Drones equipped with microphone arrays will help rescue workers in disaster areas to find and rescue survivors more quickly. They can detect cries for help and signals from buried victims from the air and simultaneously pinpoint their location. FKIE scientist Macarena Varela has developed this technology.

The second phase of the Modifiable Underwater Mothership (MUM) project has now been initiated following the handing down of a funding decision by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Norbert Brackmann, the German government's coordinator for the maritime industry, presented the funding notification at the thyssenkrupp Marine Systems shipyard in Kiel. For FKIE, Alexander Nies (department Cyber Analysis & Defense) attended.

He is the first Fraunhofer researcher and the second German ever to receive the prestigious IEEE Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award. Dr. Alexander Charlish, a scientist and team leader at Fraunhofer FKIE, received the international award for his outstanding work in the field of radar resource management and cognitive radar. 

The world is having to feed an increasing number of mouths. Studies indicate that global population will rise to over nine billion by the year 2050. In response, Bayer AG is researching resistant cereal varieties and enhanced crop protection. A new 24-hour monitoring system from the Fraunhofer FKIE will help protect these fields and thereby safeguard this timeconsuming and cost-intensive research.