Multi-dimensional information filter for Space-Based Platforms (MIFS)
Paul C. Hershey, Bill Wolpe, Jeffrey Klein · 2017
Military operators require relevant information from Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) assets to make timely decisions and to issue effective responses to mission events. Today's sensing and Command and Control (C2) systems blindly collect and pass all available ISR data, which results in data overload that increases demand for communications bandwidth and processing power, with reduction in operator effectiveness. The magnitude of this problem is dramatically growing as commercial, DoD, and other government agency networks transform into a global net-centric enterprise system where any end user is enabled to share data with any other end-user at any time and from any location. The problem is most acute for space-based platforms where bandwidth is extremely limited and very expensive for geostationary platforms. One way to reduce cost is to use inexpensive low orbit Small Satellites (Small Sats). However, providing sufficient processing within the Size Weight and Power (SWaP) limitation for Small Sats is a major issue. The Multi-dimensional Information Filter for Space-Based Platforms (MIFS) addresses this problem.