ISR Collection Management with Mission Minder

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ISR Collection Management with Mission Minder
STK

• George KrasovecData Fusion Corporationkrasovec_at_d
  atafusion.com

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Introduction

• What is Mission Minder?
• Intelligence/Surveillance/Reconnaissance (ISR)
  business logic, data bases, network interfaces
  tightly integrated with STK AVO, analytic models,
  and numerous report generators
• Hands-off scenario generation via simple,
  mission-oriented GUI
• Transforms collection requirements into optimized
  execution plan in minutes
• Provides live situation display and post mission
  analysis support
• Background and sponsorship
• DoDs Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)
  Program
• Phase I AFRL/Big Safari Program Office
• Phase III Two Department of Defense Sponsors
• Modernize planning and analysis for peripheral
  TechSIGINT collection mission
• Tactical SIGINT mission support
• Real-time situation awareness, collection
  monitoring, collector management
• Real-time ground coverage contour generation
• Corporate IRAD

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Summary of Mission Minder Features

• Pre-Mission
• Automatic STK globe composition covering the AOI
  (maps, imagery, terrain)
• Scenario management (objects, maps, terrain,
  globes, etc.)
• Requirements-driven target layout (sites,
  emitters, etc.)
• Flight plan layout and optimization
  (multi-platform)
• Mission timing and sensor tasking
• Live Ops
• TCP or Multi-Cast network feeds
• GPS and custom navigation message formats
• Multi-platform virtual display in 2D/3D windows
• Real-time ground coverage contour generation
• CPU-friendly tri-chromatic color projection
  technique
• Post-Mission
• Mission reconstruction, signal ID support
• Computer-assisted signals analysis report
  generation (template based)

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Implementations

• Configurations supported
• OS Solaris, Windows NT/XP
• DB Oracle, MS Access

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Mission Minder Architecture
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Mission Minder Roles Pre-Mission

• Automatic STK globe composition covering the AOI
  (maps and imagery)

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Mission Minder Roles Pre-Mission

• Automatic STK globe composition covering the AOI
  (maps and imagery)
• Requirements-driven target layout

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Mission Minder Roles Pre-Mission

• Automatic STK globe composition covering the AOI
  (maps and imagery)
• Requirements-driven target layout
• Flight plan layout and optimization

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Mission Minder Roles Pre-Mission

• Automatic STK globe composition covering the AOI
  (maps and imagery)
• Requirements-driven target layout
• Flight plan layout and optimization
• Multi-platform mission synthesis

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Mission Minder Roles Pre-Mission

• Automatic STK globe composition covering the AOI
• Requirements-driven target layout
• Flight plan layout and optimization
• Multi-platform mission synthesis
• Sensor tasking (single/multiple collectors)

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Mission Minder Roles Live Ops

• Configurable platform feeds

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Mission Minder Roles Live Ops

• Configurable platform feeds
• Push button control panel for 3D situation
  display

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Mission Minder Roles Live Ops

• Configurable platform feeds
• Push button control panel for 3D situation
  display
• Collection activity display in 2D window

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Mission Minder Roles Live Ops

• Configurable platform feeds
• Push button control panel for 3D situation
  display
• Collection activity display in 2D window
• Real-time situation display and ground coverage
  contour generation in 3D window

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Mission Minder Situation Display

• Real-time ground coverage contours
• Computationally light weight
• Natural light sources suppressed
• Three primary colors (RGB) allocated to asset
  classes
• Colored light sources attached to objects in each
  asset class
• Additive color mixing performed by STK 3D
  graphics rendering
• Colored contour display suppressed by increasing
  ambient light intensity (slider on control panel)
• Scene composition
• DTED-1 or DTED-2
• gray scale imagery
• no color distortion

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Mission Minder Roles Post-Mission

• Mission reconstruction

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Mission Minder Roles Post-Mission

• Mission reconstruction
• Signal ID support

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Mission Minder Roles Post-Mission

• Mission reconstruction
• Signal ID support
• Computer-assisted signals analysis report
  generation

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Mission Minder - Summary

• Leverage with STK
• Benefits to user community
• Plans
• Migration to STK 4DX architecture
• Integrate DFCs Global Reference Information
  Management (GRIM) capabilities
• Accuracy, sensitivity coefficients for
  geo-location predictions
• AOA/TDOA/FDOA estimators
• Investigating integration into emerging
  TechSIGINT Tool framework