Slant-Range Visibility
Abstract
The long-term goals of this three-year coupled rapid transition plan (RTP) 6.2-6.4 developmental effort is to transition products from the NRL Aerosol Analysis and Prediction System (NAAPS) to a database where they can be extracted by Target Acquisition Weapons Software (TAWS). This will enable NAAPS data to be directly accessible to the warfighter for mission planning purposes, and will provide information in areas where no visibility information is available. This will also allow TAWS to become a forecasting tool. Goals include developing methods to produce aerosol parameters, and incorporating these parameters into the Tactical Environmental Data Server (TEDS). The need exists to develop a general interface to extract slant path parameters from TEDS and to convert current radiative post-processor codes (extinction, optical depth, visibility) to use the TEDS database for input. TAWS must be modified to utilize these new parameters in TEDS. ?Multiple level? TAWS experiments and verification with the new input (multi-level extinction coefficients, and scattering phase function description) are also required. Finally the TAWS/NAAPS performance vs. the existing TAWS will be documented and validated against observations to quantify the improvement.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA572908
Entities
People
- Douglas L. Westphal
- Elizabeth A. Reid
Organizations
- United States Naval Research Laboratory