High Altitude Observatory (HALO) Uprade

Abstract

The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) has requirements for the collection of missile test and Evaluation data including photo documentation, characterization of target scenes, metric and radiometric characterization of systems, and phenomenology/signature data. This paper will describe the upgrade platform being designed and developed for the High Altitude Observatory (HALO) to address these requirements. The paper will also address the data-flow and computation effort designed to support rapid data products and prototype future sensor platforms that could be applied to surveillance applications. The HALO aircraft has a legacy as a reliable BMDO data collection asset. This data collection has been limited to sensors mounted inside the HALO aircraft cabin while viewing missile scenes through optical windows. The traditional approach has limited data collection capabilities due to window transmission, window aperture, and field of regard (FOR). The HALO upgrade will alleviate these problems with the installation of a pod mounted on the top of the HALO aircraft.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA380997

Entities

People

  • Garry Booker
  • Jim Kiessling
  • Mark J Williamson
  • Mike Lash
  • Rob Moskal

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Cabins
  • Aircrafts
  • Ballistic Missiles
  • Cameras
  • Compound Semiconductors
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Digital Data
  • Estimators
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • High Altitude
  • Infrared Detectors
  • Measurement
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warning Systems

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Missile Defense Systems.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.