Download or read book Unattended Ground Sensors and Precision Engagement written by Eric D. Haider and published by . This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unattended ground sensors (UGS) are devices that automatically gather sensor data on a remote target, interpret the data and communicate information back to a receiver without interaction with a human operator. The objective of this thesis is to determine how unattended ground sensor technologies might support precision engagement. Comparative case analysis of the use of sensors in Vietnam, the Sinai and Iraq is used to develop principles that UGS must meet to support precision engagement. This study finds that precision engagement requires long endurance UGS to be delivered covertly to discriminate between targets, interrogate them for emissions, while disseminating a fused picture of the target. This study details roles and missions which UGS can fill as well as their costs, benefits and unintended consequences.
Download or read book Summary Record of the 530th Meeting Held at the Palais Des Nations Geneva on Wednesday 4 April 1990 written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Special Operations Forces and Elusive Enemy Ground Targets written by William Rosenau and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2001-12-05 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Vietnam War and the Persian Gulf conflict, special operations forces (SOF) conducted reconnaissance operations to locate hidden targets when political and other considerations prevented the deployment of conventional ground units and air power alone was unable to locate and eliminate elusive objectives. In Vietnam, SOF teams crossed the border into Laos to search for truck parks, storage depots, and other assets along the Ho Chi Minh Trail that were obscured by jungle canopy and camouflage. In western Iraq, British and American SOF patrolled vast areas searching for mobile Scud launchers. In both cases, the nature of the terrain combined with adversary countermeasures made it extremely difficult for ground teams to achieve their objectives. There are a number of implications for future operations. Although new technology, such as mini- and micro-unmanned aerial vehicles, may make it easier to teams to reconnoiter wide areas, using SOF in this fashion is unlikely to achieve U.S. objectives. Concerns about casualties and prisoners of war are likely to limit the use of SOF to the most vital national interests. However, unattended ground sensors could play an enhanced role in future operations. Although most will be delivered by air, some will require hand emplacement in difficult enemy terrain, a mission well suited to SOF. SOF in a battle damage assessment role could help ensure that critical targets have been destroyed. Finally, SOF might disable, destroy, or recover nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons.
Download or read book Comparison of Three Display Devices for Unattended Ground Sensors written by Harold Martinek and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unattended Ground Sensor Technologies and Applications written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Comparison of Four Unattended Ground Sensor Displays written by Lawrence R. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battlefield Information Systems Technical Area of the Army Research Institute is concerned with human factors problems of surveillance information presentation and interpretation. The research presented here compared the relative effectiveness of four different unattended ground sensor (UGS) displays--an X-T plotter, and three variations of the situation map display--in terms of their effect on monitor performance. Four two-hour UGS scenarios were compiled from previously recorded field tests of military targets. The recordings were played back to activate the displays during experimentation. Sixteen Naval personnel (eight relatively experienced with UGS and eight inexperienced) were given training on the displays. Each subject then monitored each display in turn for two hours, reporting target information as he would operationally. The reports were compared to known ground truth and were scored on total detections, false alarms, detection accuracy, and target direction (i.e., direction of target movement). Operator performance was unaffected by the type of display used. Operators were able to detect a higher percentage of targets during periods of low target activity than during periods of high target activity. However, the accuracy of the detections was higher during the high activity period. Levels of experience did not have a significant effect on performance. (Author).
Download or read book The Effect of Workload on Performance of Operators Monitoring Unattended Ground Sensors written by Lawrence R. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective was to determine the effect of workload (target activity level and number of sensors used) on unattended ground sensor (UGS) operators' target-detection ability, false-alarm rate, and direction and speed estimation accuracy. Experienced operators monitored activations of UGS used in grids under six workload conditions--two levels of target activity x three levels of number of sensors monitored. Target activity level was defined as either 5 or 14 vehicle groups per 27 sensors per hour. The operators monitored in counterbalanced sequence 27 sensors (3 grids), 54 sensors (6 grids), and 108 sensors (12 grids). Percentage of detections decreased linearly from 85% (4 to 6 vehicle groups per hour presented on 27 sensors) to 26% (about 40 vehicle groups per hour presented on 108 sensors). Without special training, operators should monitor no more than 60 sensors being activated by a maximum of 10 vehicular groups per hour (detection completeness for this condition was 76%). The number of false alarms and the accuracy of speed estimation did not significantly change over workload. Operator accuracy in direction estimation decreased significantly as a function of workload from true azimuth + or - 30 deg. to true azimuth + or - 54 deg.
Download or read book Peace and Wartime Applications and Technical Issues for Unattended Ground Sensors written by Gerold Yonas and published by SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. This book was released on 1997 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Operation Desert Storm evaluation of the air campaign report to the Ranking Minority Member Committee on Commerce House of Representatives United States General Accounting Office written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Operation Desert Storm written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation Desert Storm was primarily a sustained 43-day air campaign by the U.S. and its allies against Iraq between Jan. 17, 1991, and Feb. 28, 1991. It was the first large employment of U.S. air power since the Vietnam War, and by some measures, it was the most successful war fought by the U.S. in the 20th century. The main ground campaign occupied only the final 100 hours of the war. This report is a comprehensive evaluation of the use and effectiveness of the various aircraft, munitions, and other weapon systems used in this victorious air campaign.
Download or read book Unattended Ground Sensor Situation Assessment Workstation written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Operation Desert Storm written by Kwai-Cheung Chan and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the unclassified version of a classified report; 85% of the original classified material is presented in this report. Addresses: the use and performance of aircraft, munitions, and missiles employed during the air campaign; the validity of DoD and manufacturer claims about weapon systems' performance, particularly those systems utilizing advanced technology; the relationship between cost and performance of weapon systems; and the extent that air campaign objectives were met. Discusses: LGB accuracy, F-117 and TLAM effectiveness, IADS capabilities, target sensor technologies, combat support platforms, and more.
Download or read book Unattended Ground Sensor Technologies and Applications V written by Edward M. Carapezza and published by SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. This book was released on 2003 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Avoiding the Abyss written by Barry R. Schneider and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1993, Secretary of Defense Les Aspin announced the Counterproliferation Initiative, a response to President Clinton's assertion that if we do not stem the proliferation of the world's deadliest weapons, no democracy can feel secure. This timely book brings together contributions from a wide range of experts to help readers understand how far the nation has come since then—and what still needs to happen. Insightful essays examine: arms control treaty programs; export control regimes; interdiction; diplomatic/economic/political persuasion and sanctions; deterrence; counterforce; active and passive defense; and consequence management. Many positive changes have occurred since 1993. Regime changes in Iraq and South Africa have removed some WMD proliferation threats. Saddam Hussein has been overthrown, and a new Iraq is beginning to emerge. South Africa's clandestine WMD program has apparently ended. Libya announced it has given up its efforts to have active WMD programs. The Taliban and al Qaeda have been routed in Afghanistan, probably delaying efforts to develop or buy WMD. Yet, states continue to develop and export WMD and/or their delivery systems. As many as 30 states are still believed to have either a nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons program. Some have all three. India and Pakistan have acknowledged programs. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist who directed the Pakistani A-bomb program, has admitted selling nuclear weapons designs, and nuclear enrichment equipment to Libya, Iran, and North Korea. His colleagues have held discussions with al Qaeda representatives. Ayman Al-Zawahiri, number two in the al Qaeda chain of command, claims that the terrorist organization has several suitcase A-bombs from the Former Soviet Union. It appears clear to many that Iran has a desire to develop nuclear weapons. Syria still has a chemical weapons program. North Korea's WMD profile has escalated. As Avoiding the Abyss so convincingly demonstrates, much has been accomplished since the Counterproliferation Initiative was launched-but much work still lies ahead. It is an important story for every American.
Download or read book The Effects of Workload on Performance on Operators Monitoring Unattended Ground Sensors written by U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-04-21 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines potential technologies for replacing antipersonnel landmines by 2006, the U.S. target date for signing an international treaty banning these weapons. Alternative Technologies to Replace Antipersonnel Landmines emphasizes the role that technology can play to allow certain weapons to be used more selectively, reducing the danger to uninvolved civilians while improving the effectiveness of the U.S. military. Landmines are an important weapon in the U.S. military's arsenal but the persistent variety can cause unintended casualties, to both civilians and friendly forces. New technologies could replace some, but not all, of the U.S. military's antipersonnel landmines by 2006. In the period following 2006, emerging technologies might eliminate the landmine totally, while retaining the necessary functionalities that today's mines provide to the military.
Download or read book Unattended Ground Sensor Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
