TARS MVE
Theater Airborne Reconnaissance System Mission Verification Equipment
Working in conjunction with the US Air Force, SDL developed the Theater Airborne Reconnaissance System (TARS) Mission Verification Equipment (MVE) ground station for use in aircrew training, mission results validation, target verification, and on‐site maintenance assistance.
The TARS MVE is a state‐of‐the‐art portable ground station for the rapid screening of TARS tactical imagery data. The ground station is built from non‐developmental commercial off‐the‐shelf (COTS) and government off‐the‐shelf (GOTS) hardware and includes custom image processing and manipulation software.
Features of the TARS MVE
- The TARS MVE receives and processes sensor data [Medium Altitude Electro‐Optical (MAEO) and Forward Framing Sensor (FFS)] from live downlinks through the TARS surface terminal equipment (STE) or via a solid‐state recorder (SSR).
- TARS MVE is equipped with Display Stations for data capture, display, and exploitation.
- TARS MVE is supported by Vantage software for receiving, decompressing, processing, displaying, evaluating, exploiting, and storing imagery data.
- The MVE ground station supports up to two image analysts and is expandable to support an additional MVE as well as additional networked desktops and laptops.
- In addition to image screening and analysis functions, the TARS MVE also provides the capability to archive data to and from the digital storage device to support data duplication and back up.
