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Real-time threat evaluation in a ground based air defence environment |
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Jaco N Roux1 & Jan H van Vuuren1
Abstract
In a military environment a ground based air defence system operator is required to evaluate the tactical situation in real-time and protect Defended Assets (DAs) on the ground against aerial threats by assigning available Weapon Systems (WSs) to engage enemy aircraft. Since this aerial environment requires rapid operational planning and decision making in stress situations, the associated responsibilities are typically divided between a number of operators and computerized systems that aid these operators during the decision making processes. One such a Decision Support System (DSS), a threat evaluation and weapon assignment (TEWA) system, assigns threat values to aircraft (with respect to DAs) in real-time and uses these values to propose possible assignments between anti-aircraft WSs and observed enemy aircraft. In this paper a design of the threat evaluation (TE) part of such a DSS is put forward. The design follows a layered approach suggested in [Roux JN and van Vuuren JH, 2007, Threat evaluation and weapon assignment decision support: A review of the state of the art, Submitted] comprising a suite of increasingly complex qualitative and quantitative model components as more (reliable) data become available.
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Affiliations
1 Department of Logistics, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602, Republic of South Africa, emails: jroux@rrs.co.za and vuuren@sun.ac.za.