Enhanced air operations for ground situational awareness

Author

Blasch, Erik ; Zhonghai Wang ; Dan Shen ; Genshe Chen ; Haibin Ling

Author_Institution

RIEA, AFRL, Rome, NY, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

5-9 Oct. 2014

Abstract

Future digital avionics systems will work in complex and cluttered environments which require systems engineering solutions for such applications as airport ground surface management. In this paper, we highlight the use of a L1 video tracker for monitoring activities at an airport. We present methods of information fusion, entity detection, and activity analysis using airport videos for runway detection and terminal events. For coordinated airport security, automated ground surveillance enhances efficient and safe maneuvers for unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) operation at airport environments.

Keywords

airports; avionics; object detection; object tracking; video surveillance; L1 video tracker; UAVs; UGVs operation; activity analysis; airport environments; airport ground surface management; airport videos; automated ground surveillance; cluttered environments; coordinated airport security; digital avionics systems; enhanced air operations; entity detection; ground situational awareness; information fusion; runway detection; systems engineering solutions; terminal events; unmanned air vehicles; unmanned ground vehicles; video surveillance; Airports; Context; Security; Semantics; Target tracking; Vehicles; Airport Security; Ground Surface Management; Video Surveillance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), 2014 IEEE/AIAA 33rd

Conference_Location

Colorado Springs, CO

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5002-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.2014.6979456

Filename

6979456