Tactical mapping in combat aircraft

Author

Buening, Ulrich

Author_Institution

ESG Elektronik-Syst.-Gesellschaft mbH, Munich, West Germany

fYear

1988

fDate

23-27 May 1988

Firstpage

74

Abstract

An application of geographical information systems (GISs) in combat aircraft is discussed, called tactical mapping. Tactical mapping enables the pilot to recognize spontaneous complex air-to-ground relations such as danger zones and dead space. Tactical information (e.g. flight path, danger zones) is combined with selected geographical information (e.g. rivers, contours) and displayed on a monitor. The PACE database and the DLMS-DTED are used to develop a GIS for tactical representations on displays in combat aircraft. Possible display formats are developed and evaluated with respect to ease of pilot interpretation and kind of information

Keywords

aircraft instrumentation; database management systems; ergonomics; geography; military computing; DLMS-DTED; GIS; PACE database; combat aircraft; contours; danger zones; dead space; display formats; ease of pilot interpretation; ergonomics; flight path; geographical information systems; kind of information; rivers; spontaneous complex air-to-ground relations; tactical mapping; tactical representations on displays; Aircraft; Application software; Computer graphics; Geographic Information Systems; Hardware; Monitoring; Optical sensors; Rivers; Turing machines; Vectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1988. NAECON 1988., Proceedings of the IEEE 1988 National

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAECON.1988.194997

Filename

194997