Integrated Sensing and Processing in Missile Systems
Abstract
Advances in sensor technologies, computation devices, and algorithms have created enormous opportunities for significant performance improvements on the modern battlefield. Unfortunately, as information requirements grow, conventional network processing techniques require ever-increasing bandwidth between sensors and processors, as well as potentially exponentially complex methods for extracting information from the data. To raise the quality of data and classification results, minimize computation, power consumption, and cost, future systems will require that the sensing and computation be jointly engineered. ISP is a philosophy/methodology that eliminates the traditional separation between physical and algorithmic design. By leveraging our experience with numerous sensing modalities, processing techniques, and data reduction networks, we will develop ISP into an extensible and widely applicable paradigm. The improvements we intend to demonstrate here are applicable in a general sense; however, this program focused on distributed sensor networks and missile seeker systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 31, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA429425
Entities
People
- Harry A. Schmitt