Airborne Intercept Monitoring
Abstract
The United States Navy has been working to advance the science and technology of sensor integration and communication technologies. This project will leverage an immediately available laser sensor package integrated with a presently operating passive optics sensor system to yield a result that will produce a high-resolution, 3-dimensional trajectory measurement. The integrated system will acquire, track, and record range, range rate, and Doppler imaging data concurrent with passively acquired visible and infrared imagery of Missile Defense Agency objects. The project is a meld of hardware and software from three different programs: the Advanced Airborne Sensor (AAS) from the USAF, the Stabilized High-accuracy Optical Tracking System (SHOTS) from the USN, and the Airborne Intercept Monitoring (AIM) system from the USN. The AAS laser is capable of the acquisition and tracking of launched ballistic targets from an airborne platform providing angle, range, range rate, and range-Doppler imaging information. SHOTS is a 0.75 meter aperture telescope that uses a high-precision, GPS-aided inertial navigation unit coupled with a 3-axis, rate gyro stabilized mount to allow precise pointing on land-based or sea-based platforms. The integration of these two systems under the sponsorship of the AIM program will provide high sensitivity, precision metric capability while maintaining the SHOTS passive sensor suite. The paper includes 31 briefing charts that summarize the presentation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA507614
Entities
People
- Clyde Shiraki
- David Herr
- Don Ruffatto
- Mark Kovacs