Sod Program Support Staff Organization

Book Id: WPLBN0000137452
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Reproduction Date: 2008

Title:	Sod Program Support Staff Organization
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Language:	English
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Citation APA MLA Chicago Sod Program Support Staff Organization. (n.d.). Sod Program Support Staff Organization. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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Introduction: DARPA requested a JASON summer study on Small Unit Operations, with the emphasis to be on the SUO vision of total situational awareness for small ground units, remote commanders and remote weapons systems. Achieving this vision presents enormous technological and system challenges requiring major advances in the means of surveillance, communications, and data processing and management...

Table of Contents
Contents 1 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 1 1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 The SUO Concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.3 Sensors and Surveillance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.3.1 Uncooled Infrared Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.3.2 Exploring Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3.3 Location of Hostile Rifle Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.4 Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.4.1 Multipath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.4.2 SAR-based Communication Architecture . . . . . . . . 8 1.4.3 Spread-spectrum Synchronization in the Presence of Jamming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.5 Data Management using GIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2 COMPACT VIDEO SENSORS 11 2.1 Sensor/Communication Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 2.2 Uncooled IR Imagers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.2.1 Recent Commercial Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 2.2.2 ASIC Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2.2.3 Power and Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.2.4 Cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 2.3 Power Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 2.3.1 Batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.3.2 Solar Augmentation of Batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 2.3.3 Fuel Cell Augmentation of Batteries . . . . . . . . . . 24 3 NAVIGATION AND EXPLORATION INSIDE BUILDINGS 27 3.1 Sonar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 3.2 Laser Ranging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 3.3 Electromagnetic Ranging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 3.4 Artificial Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 3.5 Rolling Ball Imager and Allied Concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 3.6 Applications for a Hand Held Radar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3.6.1 Personal Radar Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39