CMRTR
Cruise Missile Real-Time Retargeting
Since June 2002, the Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) has been working with
the Naval Air Warfare Center at China Lake California to develop laser radar
(ladar) system
simulation software for their CMRTR Program. This work is sponsored by the Office
of Naval Research's Time Critical Strike Future Naval Capability Program and
is under contract through FY 2007.
Issues being addressed include:
- Validation of ladar simulation models against CMRTR test flight data sets
- Modeling of phenomenology associated with complex targets and clutter
- Prediction of sensor performance in various maneuvers over complex terrain
- Use of EO data fused at the pixel level with ladar data to improve the
performance of automatic target recognition
- Visual exploitation of 3D ladar data by a human-in-the-loop
- Exploitation of ladar data for precision terrain aided navigation
- Analysis of how to best engineer a ladar/EO dual-mode sensor in a reconnaissance
application
Simulation Software
The USU LadarSim v.2.0 simulation software developed for NAVAIR has the capability
to generate ladar range images and 3D point clouds. The software incorporates
performance-related parameters associated with the laser, detector, signal processing,
scanner dynamics, platform dynamics, navigation errors, and scene properties.
Various scenes and targets can be simulated and flight path trajectories specified.
Outputs can be used to evaluate system performance including range error, detection
probabilities and false alarm probabilities. These data sets are also being
used for the analysis of automatic target recognition. The work on this model
is ongoing and is available to defense agencies on an “official use only”
basis.
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