Meteorological Research For Battle Command
Abstract
This Project develops tactical weather and atmospheric effects/impacts algorithms for their integration into battlefield information products. Efforts include high-resolution, local assessments and forecasts of meteorological conditions in near real time including effects of urban and mountainous terrain; analytical tools to assess the impact of the atmosphere to optimize system performance and operations planning and advanced atmospheric sensing applications to characterize and mitigate wind and turbulence in complex terrain. It provides detailed model applications for various effects of the atmosphere on electro-optical and acoustic target detection, location, and identification. This Project develops both physics-based decision aids and rule-based decision support systems for assessing the impacts of weather/atmosphere across a spectrum of friendly and threat weapons systems, sensors, platforms, and operations. Information can be applied to mission planning and execution, battlefield visualization, reconnaissance surveillance and target acquisition, route planning to maximize stealth and efficiency, web enabled tactical decision aids, and also modeling of environmental impacts for combat simulations and war games. The cited work is consistent with the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Research and Engineering Science and Technology priority focus areas and the Army Modernization Strategy. This work transitions technologies to the Department of Defense weather and operations modeling community, the US Air Force 557th Weather Wing to improve their operational weather support to the Army Project Leader-Fire Support Command and Control and Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) for field artillery systems, the Project Manager, Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A), the Joint Improvised Threat Defeat Agency, the Program Executive Office Aviation/Tactical Airspace Integration System (TAIS). Work in this Project is performed by the Army Research Laboratory located at Adelphi, MD and White Sands Missile Range, NM.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- H71_0602784A_2_2040_PB_2018
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