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Authors:
Tapio Saarelainen
Keywords: Situational Awareness (SA), Common Operational Picture (COP), fratricide, collateral damage
Abstract:
The Future Battlefield has expanded to a battlespace where its commanders rely on SA-tools to perform optimally in their given tasks. Operations may include combat settings as well as counter insurgency actions, peace-keeping operations and disaster relief activities. In multi-national operations taking place in versatile and hostile environments, it is essential to detect, classify and identify the encountered objects in the battlespace early enough. The concept of war has changed in the direction of multi-symmetric warfare involving enemy troops, own forces and impartial entities. This paper describes existing technical solutions and oncoming tools applicable in enhancing Situational Awareness (SA) and minimizing fratricide and collateral damage in the battlefield. This paper adopts a meta-analytic approach and examines the current capability of utilized Combat Identification (CID) systems to minimize fratricide and avoid collateral damage in the theatre as described in relevant existing studies and military exercises. This, furthermore, involves introducing means to enhance the overall SA in the battlespace.
Pages: 131 to 139
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011
Publication date: April 17, 2011
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-3964
ISBN: 978-1-61208-127-4
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Dates: from April 17, 2011 to April 22, 2011