Overview of Human-Centric Space Situational Awareness Science and Technology

Abstract

Several organizations within the government and industry are researching ways to help humans understand and react to events in space. Gaining space situational awareness (SSA) is both helped and complicated by the fact that there are numerous information sources that need to be planned (i.e., tasked), collected, processed, analyzed, and disseminated. This paper will outline areas of science and technology (S&T) related to human-centric SSA and space command and control (C2) and discuss related efforts within the Air Force Research Laboratory Human Effectiveness Directorate. A survey of other organizations working SSA human factors will be provided as will suggestions on where more attention may be needed. A large part of the research we are aware of is in support of the Joint Space Operational Center (JSpOC), National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC), and similar organizations. Much recent research has been specifically targeting the JSpOC Mission System which has provided a unifying software architecture and vision.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA573767

Entities

People

  • Denise L. Aleva
  • John D. Ianni
  • Sharon A. Ellis

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Command And Control
  • Command Centers
  • Computers
  • Environment
  • Human-Computer Interfaces
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Military Research
  • Situational Awareness
  • Space Environments
  • Space Objects
  • Space Operations
  • Space Situational Awareness
  • Space Surveillance
  • Three Dimensional

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space