Rapid Environmental Assessment within NATO: Underwater Warfare Programs Fuse Civilian Technologies with Military Architectures to Deliver Oceanographic Products

Abstract

This paper examines rapid environmental assessment (REA) in the context of naval requirements and characteristics for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The time and space scales of REA are very application dependent, and "rapid" refers to the speed of responding to a request for information rather than an indication of time scales of variability within the survey domain. The paper examines civilian technologies such as internet, geographic information systems (GIS), and other communication capabilities that are used to facilitate REA. An example REA scenario is presented for the Gulf of Mexico in the Shelf Energy and Exchange Dynamics (SEED) domain using nested Navy Coastal Ocean Model (NCOM) domains. Recent advances in sensors and platforms provide new opportunities for multiple views of the battlespace with more information to improve future REAs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA430262

Entities

People

  • Brian G. Whitehouse
  • Charlie N. Barron
  • Dale Ellis
  • Paul C. Hines

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Antisubmarine Warfare
  • Boundaries
  • Commerce
  • Digital Communications
  • Digital Video
  • Environmental Assessment
  • High Resolution
  • Military Operations
  • Military Organizations
  • Military Research
  • Nato
  • Navy
  • Platforms
  • Undersea Warfare
  • Video
  • Warfare
  • Water

Readers

  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers

Technology Areas

  • Space