Increasing the Usefulness of AWACS Downlink Transmissions by Semantic Compression,

Abstract

Aircraft equipped for the AWACS role acquire and store large amounts of tactical situation data drawn from several sources. This information may be useful for any of a variety of ground-based C2 functions and missions. Suitably protected digital downlinks (e.g., TADIL) might be employed to transmit the data available in the AWACS aircraft to appropriately equipped ground-based C2 centers. Owing to the fixed data-rates characteristic of available down-link systems, not all in aircraft data that might otherwise prove useful for some of those ground-based C2 missions can be transmitted in a timely way. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1987
Accession Number
ADP005594

Entities

People

  • Bonnie Schnitta-israel
  • Roy S. Freedman

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Airborne
  • Airborne Warning And Control System
  • Aircrafts
  • Compression
  • Data Rate
  • Downlinks
  • Ground Based
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Theoretical Analysis.