Mission & Surveillance Planner Applications
Mission planners can select or design a 3-D world of
their choosing and then evaluate the effectiveness of different
mission profiles in that world by comparing the resulting pixels on target before conducting actual
flights. By coupling flight dynamics
with environmental conditions (wind, precipitation,
time of day),
SPOT graphically displays how weather will impact sensor performance
for a proposed mission. Flight tests are expensive and never
conducted under identical conditions so it may be hard to obtain
comparable results for competing platforms from different vendors. SPOT provides complete and total control over weather conditions.Program managers tasked with selecting a single best solution from competing surveillance platforms can use SPOT to provide virtual test flight data under identical conditions for a variety of missions. Terrain features or buildings can block the view of fixed surveillance cameras. By fixing vehicle locations and introducing animated targets into the SPOT world, security specialists can arrange camera locations and sweeps to maximize coverage in complex environments like cities where obstruction of view is a major consideration. In most applications, the ability of SPOT to compare pixels on target while design factors are varied in a controlled way is used to optimize surveillance. A well-designed trade study with the ability to explore many scenarios can provide a better ending solution that might not initially have been obvious. For a simple example, consider a study to determine the best field-of-view for a camera mounted in a fixed position on an aircraft that is influenced by wind. In theory, by narrowing the field of view for a perfectly stable camera centered on target, the size of the target's image can be increased until all of the camera's pixels are on target. |
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