Situational Awareness using the VR Responsive Workbench

Abstract

Our task is to provide situational awareness for the complex logistical task of directing the movement of U.S. Marines and material over rugged terrain, day and night, in uncertain weather conditions. This difficulty is multiplied by the well-known dangers of amphibious assault, long considered the most difficult problem in warfare. Even with the advent of computers and sophisticated decision-making software in Marine Corps Combat Operation Centers, command and control is predominantly undertaken with paper maps and acetate overlays. This is a cumbersome, time consuming process. In addition, detailed maps and overlays can take several hours to print and distribute. There currently exists no overall picture of the battlespace that provides a commander with a dynamic range of resolution sufficient to track units ranging from aircraft carriers to six-Marine fire teams.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA606233

Entities

People

  • David F Tate
  • Jim Durbin
  • Larry Rosenblum
  • Robert King
  • Robert P. Doyle

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • C4I

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Carriers
  • Amphibious Operations
  • Automated Speech Recognition
  • Combat Operations
  • Command And Control
  • Computer Graphics
  • Computers
  • Dynamic Range
  • Graphics
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Information Operations
  • Marine Corps
  • Military Research
  • Recognition
  • Situational Awareness
  • Virtual Reality
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.

Technology Areas

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