A roadmap for future UGS
John H. McQuiddy · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2010
The combination of changing technology in the marketplace and new requirements for UGS will provide a continuing force for improving the performance of UGS systems in the future. The characterization of UGS as a System has already transformed UGS from an individual sensor reporting a target detection to a user in proximity to the sensor into the current paradigm of many UGS units interacting over a network to provide much more target information. As the technology continues to move forward, the amount of target information and the precision of the information are going to advance. This paper will provide examples of research underway to meet these future UGS needs and estimates of when these advances will become deployable systems.