Through-the-Sensor Determination of AN/AQS-20 Sensor Performance Demonstration 1, December 13 through 17, 2004
Michael Harris, Will E. Avera, Chad A. Steed, John T. Sample, L. Dale Bibee, Warren T. Wood, Dave Morgerson, Christopher Robinson · 2005
The first of three FY05 AN/AQS-20 Through-the-Sensor (TTS) Rapid Transition Process (RTP) demonstrations was successfully conducted on December 13 through 17, 2004, in the Mine Warfare Room at NAVOCEANO. The end-to-end demonstration took raw AN/AQS-20 Volume Search Sonar (VSS) and side scan sonar (SSS) data, processed, fused, and delivered them to the Mine Warfare Environmental Decision Aids Library (MEDAL) Tactical Decision Aid (TDA). This demonstration was a representative simulation that showed the connectivity and functionality using previously collected raw AN/AQS-20 Engineering Development Model (EDM) data with other overlapping historical datasets south of Panama City. In this demonstration, the datasets were processed and fused in a laboratory and placed locally in the Geophysical Database Variable Grid Dynamic (GDBV-D) and remotely on a Tactical Environmental Data Services (TEDServices) Gateway. Output formats were successfully ingested into a MEDAL installation using MEDAL's ftp interface. KTP Seafloor Bathymetric and Environmental Data (SeaBED) software worked as designed, data were sent and received in the correct formats, and SeaBED software did not interfere with the normal operation of the Bottom Mapping Workstation (BMW) software. This report summarizes the results of Demonstration 1 of the AN/AQS-20 RTP.