Tracking and identification of distant missiles by remote sounding

Author

Draper, James Stark ; Perlman, Sumner ; Chuang, C.K. ; Hanson, Matt ; Lillard, Larry ; Hibbeln, Brian ; Sene, Darren

Author_Institution

KTAADN Inc., Newton, MA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

333

Abstract

Military operations require early warning and identification of theater ballistic missiles (TBM) while they are yet at low altitude. TBMs can operate in vast areas denied to current radar and IR surveillance systems. A form of single sensor or monocular passive ranging (MPR) may make possible TBM tracking in the lower atmosphere from space with simplified, less costly systems utilizing fewer sensors. MPR, a multi-band IR process exploiting atmospheric differential spectral attenuation, has been initially verified by airborne and overhead data. A method, using MPR and trajectory estimation procedures, is described that extracts three dimensional (3D) TBM trajectories

Keywords

identification; missiles; remote sensing; target tracking; atmospheric differential spectral attenuation; early warning; identification; military operation; monocular passive ranging; multi-band IR process; remote sounding; single sensor; theater ballistic missile; three-dimensional trajectory estimation; tracking; Acoustic sensors; Arm; Atmosphere; Data mining; Laser radar; Missiles; Radar measurements; Radar tracking; Sensor systems; Surveillance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE

Conference_Location

Snowmass at Aspen, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5425-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.1999.792101

Filename

792101