An Assessment of Alternative SAR Display Formats: Orientation and Situational Awareness

Abstract

This study explores the operational utility of fusing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery and digital terrain map (DTM) data. Specifically, the two- dimensional (2D) display of SAR imagery was compared against a two and a half dimension (21/2D) display of SAR overlaid on corresponding DTM data. Eight imagery analysts (IAs), assigned to the Israeli Ground Corps Command Imagery Analysis Unit and to the Israeli Air Force, and two weapon system officers served as subject matter experts. The measures employed in this comparison included both an assessment of operator situational awareness (SA) and of performance in an information extraction task. Based on the SAR imagery which was used in the experiment, performance measures (accuracy and speed in feature location) and SA measures did not yield significant performance differences between the 2D and the 2-D displays.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA430160

Entities

People

  • Gilbert G. Kuperman
  • Itzhak Nadler
  • Michael S. Brickner

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Experimental Design
  • High Resolution
  • Judgment
  • Landforms
  • Military Training
  • Object Recognition
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Situational Awareness
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Training
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML