Acoustic sensors have been used for battlefield applications since World War I. Acoustic sensors provide several advantages and are increasingly employed in the modern high-tech battlefield. The twenty-first century battlefield calls for cutting-edge technology for military superiority and deployment of state-of-the-art acoustic sensor systems that employ advanced acoustic signal processing. Th...

This paper describes the conceptual structure of the Daedalus battlefield awareness system. The motivation for Daedalus arises from the problem of providing timely situation awareness for air and ground combat operations in order to improve force effectiveness and reduce fratricide. Daedalus is being designed to fuse the flood of information from sensor platforms currently being developed into ...

The soldier on the modern battlefield needs to retrieve critical information in a timely manner while operating in a highly mobile environment. The information, above all, has to be timely and accurate for his needs. The soldier also cannot rely on a commercial communications infrastructure, so data networking features must be developed around existing military communications networks. There ar...

Commanders face many challenges in their efforts to control the battlefield. Friction (i.e., sources of delay) in the commander’s control system, coupled with the dynamics of the battlefield, requires commanders to act before threatening battlefield events occur. Effective control of the battlefield thus requires accurate predictions. This paper describes the results of a preliminary study conc...

With the development of British Army doctrine it is necessary to review the concepts underlying medical support to the modern battlefield. In particular, the provision of timely and balanced resuscitation to the high intensity battle is an issue requiring an understanding of both the tactical and the clinical demands. The wholesale application of civilian techniques and approaches to trauma man...

The necessity for mechanisms that provide service survivability (i.e., seamless restoration of networking services affected by random failures) in battlefield networks, is both obvious and critical. This paper addresses the fundamental challenge of providing service survivability via efficient fault localization and self-healing techniques in the Army’s Future Battlefield Networks, examples of ...

As the impetus to extend computer and communications as far possible into the battlefield continues to grow, con.guration management of these computer and communication networks becomes a challenging task. The challenges stem mainly from the volatile connectivity (due to network element failures) and sporadic mobility (due to the dynamics of the battlefield theatre). Thispaperproposes a self-co...

The paper describes airborne sensor networks for target tracking and identification in military applications. The raw information about targets from airborne sensors is uncertain and often noisy. One challenge in airborne sensor networks is how to effectively fuse enormous amounts of uncertain and noisy information for better battlefield situation assessment. In this paper we present a novel ap...

As silicon becomes cheaper, lighter, and faster, more data is collected, processed, and transmitted, and war is altered through several stages. Pop-up warfare describes the battlefield in which the means of war are quiet or hidden until they rise and engage. The growing and (for the time being) unchallenged ability of U.S. forces to lay a Mesh over the battlefield permits the tracking and targe...

3D representation of Radar electromagnetic information affected by terrain, ocean and weather is an unavoidable problem in the future digital battlefield. Based on APM(Advanced Propagation Model), in-plane propagation loss was calculated by the virtual of digitalized virtual battlefield. Then 2D in-plane coverage of given Radar was deduced. At last multiple such 2D coverage were combined togeth...