Unattended ground sensor situation assessment workstation

Conference · Tue Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1997

OSTI ID:463681

Jeppesen, D; Trellue, R

Effective utilization of unattended ground sensors (UGSs) in a theater reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition, and kill assessment environment requires that a human operator be able to interpret, and collectively assess, the significance of real time data obtained from UGS emplacements over large geographical regions of interest. The products of this UGS data interpretation and assessment activity can then be used in the decision support process for command level evaluation of appropriate courses of action. Advancements in both sensor hardware technology and in software systems and processing technology have enabled the development of practical real time situation assessment capabilities based upon information from unattended ground sensors. A decision support workstation that employs rule-based expert system processing of reports from unattended ground sensors is described. The primary goal of this development activity is to produce a suite of software to track vehicles using data from unattended ground sensors. The situational assessment products from this system have stand-alone utility, but are also intended to provide cueing support for overhead sensors and supplementary feeds to all-source fusion centers. The conceptual framework, developmental architecture, and demonstration field tests of the system are described.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Financial Management and Controller, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 463681
• Report Number(s): SAND--97-0676C; CONF-970465--3; ON: DE97004025
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS
DATA PROCESSING
EXPERT SYSTEMS
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
MILITARY EQUIPMENT
MILITARY STRATEGY
REAL TIME SYSTEMS
VEHICLES