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Showing 1 to 20 of 250 for “"situational awareness"”.
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LIDAR design for space situational awareness
Space Situational Awareness (SSA) is a growing concern for National Security. Among the many methods of increasing SSA is the use of space-based Laser Imaging, Detection And Ranging (LIDAR) sensors to detect, track, classify or image other spacecraft. This Thesis explores the unique trade-spaces …
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Enhanced Tools to Improve Situational Awareness
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Commonly shared situational awareness is essential to the success of almost any team endeavor. Many information networks and processes in the military environment are specifically designed to collect, filter, package, and provide information. The mismanagement of time critical …
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Multi-function RF for Situational Awareness
… (RF) communications are an integral part of many situational awareness applications. Sensing data need to be processed in a timely manner, making it imperative to have a robust and reliable RF link for information dissemination. Moreover, there is an increasing need for exploiting RF communication …
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Situational awareness framework for risk ranking
… propose an open and extensible framework called "Situational Awarness FrAamework for RIsk ranking" (SAFARI). SAFARI aims to quantify and rank risk with unlabeled, complex data in the financial world. The framework integrates and analyzes different perspectives of financial data, and extends risk …
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Space situational awareness CubeSat concept of operations
The concept of space situational awareness (SSA) is important to preserve manned and unmanned space operations. Traditionally, ground based radar, electro-optical sensors and very limited space-based assets have been used as part of the space surveillance network (SSN) to track orbital debris, …
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Application of Self-Monitoring for Situational Awareness
… proposes a self-monitoring system to perform situational awareness which may extend into providing insight into predictable behaviors. Knowing an individual’s current state and likelihood of particular behaviors occurring is a general solution. This knowledge-based solution derived from …
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Target search methods for space situational awareness
This work studies methods to detect target in an orbit around the Earth using a space based sensor. Searching for a target among a large set of candidate orbits is a difficult and time consuming problem. Considering orbital dynamics, sensor uncertainties and the initial size of candidate location …
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Unresolved Image Simulation for Space Situational Awareness Applications
… is active in the field of in-orbit space situational awareness. This thesis intends to help fill a hole in the development of such orbital platforms by assisting the development of image processing software pipelines though the simulation of unresolved space imagery. The simulation uses …
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On Distributed and Acoustic Sensing for Situational Awareness
<p>Recent advances in electronics enable the development of small-sized, low-cost, low-power, multi-functional sensor nodes that possess local processing capability as well as to work collaboratively through communications. They are able to sense, collect, and process data from the surrounding …
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Situational awareness for a navy unmanned undersea vehicle
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2003.
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Characterizing Effective System Architectures for Cislunar Space Situational Awareness
Achieving Space Situational Awareness (SSA) in the Cislunar region—the area between the geosynchronous belt and the Moon's gravitational boundary—poses significant technological and organizational challenges. Instead of proposing new theoretical systems, this thesis employs the Architecting …
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Student Pilot Situational Awareness: The Effects of Trust in Technology
… the relationship between pilots' trust and their situational awareness during simulated flight. A literature review revealed that the Jian Trust Scale was based on empirical observations and had precedence in the literature so it was selected. Since excessive reliance on technology can make the …
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Data-Centric Situational Awareness and Management in Intelligent Power Systems
… ever. The request for big data based situation awareness and management becomes urgent today. In this dissertation, to respond to the grand challenge, two data-centric power system situation awareness and management approaches are proposed to address the security problems in the …
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Encripted mode select ADS-B for tactical military situational awareness
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2001.
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A Campus Situational Awareness and Emergency Response Management System Architecture
… describes an architecture for SINERGY (campuS sItuational awareNess and Emergency Response manaGement sYstem) – a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based network-centric system of systems that provides a comprehensive, institution-wide, software-based solution for balancing safety and …
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Adaptive Methods of Resident Space Object Identification for Space Situational Awareness
<p>One of the fundamental tenets of Space Situational Awareness (SSA) is the detection and sub sequent identification of Resident Space Objects (RSOs) within unresolved optical space imagery. This function is vital to the documentation and tracking of RSOs in their respective operational orbits, …
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OLSR-based network discovery in situational awareness system for tactical MANETs
… to build full map of the network with respect to situational awareness system. This thesis also presents a multi-node, 2-dimensional, distributed technique for coarse (approximate) localization of the nodes in a tactical mobile ad hoc network. The objective of this work is to provide coarse …
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Enhancing Situational Awareness Through Haptics Interaction In Virtual Environment Training Systmes
… This work focused on enhancing situation awareness (SA) within a training VE through appropriate use of multimodal cues. The Multimodal Optimization of Situation Awareness (MOSA) model was developed to identify theoretical benefits of various environmental and individual multimodal cues on …
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Autonomous and Responsive Surveillance Network Management for Adaptive Space Situational Awareness
… for space-reliant nations to maintain space situational awareness using current human-in-the-loop methods. This dissertation develops several real-time adaptive approaches to autonomous sensor network management for tracking multiple maneuvering and non-maneuvering satellites with a diversely …
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