Modern HF mission planning combining propagation modeling and real-time environment monitoring

The authors present a new approach to RF planning. The key design is an object-oriented user interface that allows the user to translate mission objectives into user-understandable results. Features include the integration of visualization tools, digital mapping, rule-based selection of propagation models, presentation of a model´s results as stochastic values, and estimation of mission success presented in the geographical context. A mission success visualization tool, called the Lott Plot, permits the user to see the effects on mission success caused by receiver sensitivity, signal-to-noise ratio, channel occupancy estimates, and noise floor. The system will operate on a high-speed engineering workstation. Final delivery is Summer 1997