Tactical Situation Displays and Figurative Symbology.

Abstract

This thesis investigates the utility of figurative symbology for tactical situation displays. The purpose was to determine if more descriptive symbology--figurative symbology or use of more lifelike images to represent targets--would enhance evaluation of a tactical situation display, i.e., enable the user to more rapidly assimilate and evaluate tactical situation display. Basis for comparison was the the Navy Tactical Display System (NTDS). Specifically, experiments used in our research included comparisons of monochromatic NTDS, color NTDS, and color figurative symbologies. The analysis of the data obtained from the experiments suggests color symbology is significantly better than monochromatic symbology and figurative is better than NTDS symbology. Specifically, color figurative (green/red) was determined to be best, followed in order by, color figurative (blue/orange), color NTDS, then monochromatic NTDS.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA115737

Entities

People

  • Lawrence Alan Bruck
  • Philip Wayne Hill

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Defense
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Analysis
  • Display Systems
  • Graphics
  • Information Processing
  • Radar
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Warfare

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