Atmospheric Impacts Routing (AIR)

Abstract

Atmospheric impacts on platforms and alternative routing options which consider environmental factors along a planned path of movement are of high importance during combat operations. Such options serve to improve survivability and movement efficiency of air and ground platforms and systems. Environmental factors which may adversely affect systems during combat operations along a projected path include adverse weather, threat activity, conflicting friendly operations, and other obstacles. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory's Battlefield Environment Division has developed the Atmospheric Impacts Routing (AIR) application, which calculates optimized routes in 3D space, avoiding adverse atmospheric conditions and other obstacles during mission execution. ARL's AIR web service will supplement the Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) web services (AFW-WEBS) as well as the U.S. Army Tactical Airspace Integration System (TAIS) web service developments, incorporating TAIS airspace conflict detection services as input for route optimization.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA553239

Entities

People

  • Jeffrey O. Johnson

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Battlefields
  • Combat Operations
  • Computer Science
  • Detection
  • Environment
  • Information Science
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Military Research
  • Multiagent Systems
  • Platforms
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare
  • Web Service

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Atmospheric Science/Meteorology
  • Aviation Safety and Air Traffic Management
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.

Technology Areas

  • Space