Objective Quality Control of Artillery Computer Meteorological Messages.
Abstract
Artillery computer meteorological (CM) messages are susceptible to having errors introduced into them during preparation at the Meteorological Section, during transmission to the user unit, and during entry into the Fire Direction Center computer. Quality control during preparation of the CM message is largely a manual function and thus subject to human error. At the Fire Direction Center, in the case of the most advanced computerized tactical fire direction control system, TACFIRE, quality control of the CM message is limited to superficial automated checks that relate primarily to message format, not content, and to reliance upon visual screening by the TACFIRE operator before acceptance, storage, and usage of the message. No quality control checks of the contents of the message are made during movement of the CM message from the preparer to the user. This report documents the development of procedures for objectively performing meteorologically consistent quality control checks on the contents of single CM messages that would require only very limited automatic data processing resources to implement at either the preparer or user end, or both, and that would improve upon the validity checks currently implemented in the TACFIRE system. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1980
- Accession Number
- ADA086554
Entities
People
- Ernest B. Stenmark
Organizations
- Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory