Название: Naval ISR Fusion Principles, Operations, and Technologies
Автор: Jim Scrofani, Will Williamson, Jihane Mimih
Издательство: Artech House
Год: 2023
Страниц: 249
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.2 MB

With its unique focus on advanced approaches to naval intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and the critical underlying technologies needed to empower distributed maritime operations (DMO), this book provides a complete discussion of the operational requirements for current and future naval applications. Readers will find sufficient details to enable the design and development of technical solutions to achieve advanced information fusion as well as command and control concepts. The book approaches distributed naval operations and the role of ISR by applying advanced technologies and addressing future conflicts, providing naval officers and engineers with the information needed to plan and develop advanced systems. This is a great resource for anyone in the ISR, intelligence, space, antisubmarine warfare, electronic warfare, and surface warfare disciplines who are looking for an in-depth understanding of advanced ISR operations and technologies.

Modern navies face challenges by adversaries that seek to control areas of the seas and littorals. Distributed sensors, ubiquitous cyber, and precise, hypersonic-fast long-range weapons enable large-area denial capabilities. To counter these threats, distributed maritime operations (DMO) have become more the order of the day that relies even more critically on secure and assured networks for ISR and BMC2. Naval strategies, operations, and tactics are supported by complex technologies that are intended to bring networked centric warfare to the forefront—and continuously transforming naval ISR. This book is about that transformation.

A team of professors at the Naval Postgraduate School that understand this area well have compiled this comprehensive book to organize and explain the advanced methods and capabilities in naval ISR, and the impact on naval operations. The authors are, appropriately, from the school’s Center for Multiple Intelligence (MultiINT) interdisciplinary studies, and they bring a breadth of knowledge about the various INTs and the processes to bring them together into a coherent picture of the naval battlespace. In this book, the authors move from the need for distributed maritime operations, to the enabling ISR technologies—from satellite constellations to integrated unmanned systems and quantum sensing. An important feature of this book is the breadth and depth of scholarly literature reviewed to allow the reader to go beyond the pages of the book and explore the indispensable technical literature in the field of data fusion. The authors explain the fundamentals of ISR, the networking of sensors from seabed to space, and the methods of data fusion—corelating and combining data from the vast collection network into a correlating view.

This text is designed to help naval officers and technical professionals to understand maritime threats and advanced naval ISR to support DMO to counter complex threats. The book describes the complexity of achieving seabed-to-space sensor coordination on a distributed network, the fusion of ISR information, and decision-making support. We focus on the methods to apply advanced technologies in fusion: sensing orchestration, distributed data correlation and association, data combination, and distribution. The book is suitable for naval officers in the ISR, intelligence, space, ASW, electronic warfare (EW), cyber, and surface warfare disciplines who seek an in-depth understanding of advanced ISR operations and technologies. It is designed to provide a comprehensive background for naval and industry managers and engineers planning and developing advanced naval systems—subsurface, surface, air, cyber, and space.