OmniSense
The OmniSense system was jointly developed by U.S. Army Research Laboratory and McQ Inc. In 2005, OmniSense was fielded by the U.S. Army. Subsequently, ARL integrated OmniSense, Northrop Grumman Scorpion, and Harris RF systems Silent Watch sensors into a common PED (Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination) environment. This was fielded by Program Manager Robotics and Unmanned Sensors (PM RUS) as the Current Force UGS program for U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and operated by the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM).[1]
The persistent surveillance sensors are currently deployed to warfighting areas to monitor roads, borders, and areas of interest for insurgent activities.[2] This networked UGS system connects the user to the remotely deployed sensors to receive target information and to allow a user to remotely reconfigure the sensors. These intelligent sensors detect and classify the targets, in addition to capturing a picture of the target.[3] The detected targets are tracked with either a daytime color camera or a nighttime infrared camera, so the user sees the target as it is detected.[2]
The UGS systems employ various sensor modalities (i.e. seismic, acoustic, magnetic, and pyroelectric transducers, daylight imagers and passive infrared imagers) to automatically detect the presence of persons or vehicles. The system then transmits activity reports, imagery via radio-frequency (RF) or satellite communications (SATCOM) links to a remote processing station. The systems are packaged for concealed installment in the field and for long-term unattended operation.[citation needed]
Other UGS programs include a family of sensors from various companies: Qual-Tron Inc (MIDS, EMIDS, MMIDS) E-UGS, Silent Watch, Falcon Watch, Scorpion, OmniSense and OmniSense-Enhanced. The current sources for Current Force UGS are Applied Research Associates (E-UGS), Harris Corporation (Silent Watch, Falcon Watch), and Northrop Grumman-Xetron (Scorpion), and McQ Inc (OmniSense, OmniSense-Enhanced).[citation needed]
References[edit]
- ↑ "History of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory". Google Books. U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Omnisense Remote Networked Sensor System" (PDF). Navy SBIR / STTR. U.S. Navy. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
- ↑ McQuiddy, John. "OmniSense unattended ground sensor system". SPIE Digital Library. Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). doi:10.1117/12.784540.short (inactive 2018-06-20). Retrieved 18 June 2018.
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