COASTAL BATTLEFIELD RECONNAISSANCE AND ANALYSIS

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COBRA
COASTAL BATTLEFIELD RECONNAISSANCE AND
ANALYSIS Brief to Federal Geographic Data
Committee Marine and Coastal Spatial Data
PROJECT OFFICER Capt David B.
Gerlach MARCORSYSCOM PM Intel [phone] DSN
278 FAX [phone] gerlachdb_at_mcsc.usmc.mil
TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT Mr. Rex Lawrence USMC
Project Office NAVSEA, Panama City [phone] D
SN 436 FAX [phone] lawrencere_at_ncsc.navy.mil
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COASTAL BATTLEFIELD RECONNAISSANCE AND ANALYSIS

• Key Points
• UAV MS sensor system
• Detects minefields, obstacles,
• and camouflaged defenses
• Enhances tactical GIS for situation
• awareness
• Proven minefield detection
• capability
• Important secondary benefits for
• environmental characterization,
• mapping, and assessments

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COASTAL BATTLEFIELD RECONNAISSANCE AND ANALYSIS

• Exploiting COBRA Data
• Cataloging and reviewing existing classification
  systems for coastal zones (w/ NOAA and NRL-DC),
• Developing draft coastal/marine classification
  standards that generalize biological and physical
  interactions,
• Participating in workshops (FGDC) to implement
  classification standards,
• Revising the standards as needed, based on
  requirements of C4ISR community,
• Adapting Multiple Database Integration and Update
  software with coastal rules,
• Integrating MDBIU with the Topographic
  Production Capability, and
• identifying locations and partners to test rapid
  population of a coastal database suitable for
  navigation.

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• Bridges gap between coastal research advances and
  operational requirements
• Apply DoD and commercial remote sensing advances
  to
• Observe meteorological and oceanographic
  parameters
• Characterize winds, waves, currents, fronts,
  eddies, temperature, chlorophyll, slick, and
  pollution
• Fill gaps with information from UAVs and AUVs
• Survey shallow water features
• Position, depths, obstacles, mines, shoaling
  waves, nearshore currents, plumes, temperature,
  and fluorescence
• Assimilate data from in situ sensors
• Mini Drifting Data Buoys
• Miniaturized Sensors

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COASTAL BATTLEFIELD RECONNAISSANCE AND ANALYSIS

• Combine and display UAV, AUV, model, and in situ
  data using GIS
• Evaluate user requirements, environmental
  factors, and current capabilities
• Identify spatial and temporal scales of
  variability for displayed information
• Provide appropriate resolution and fidelity for
  product
• Data collection methods depend on physical and
  biological interactions shaping the coast
• Optimize collection of data based on resolution
  requirements and environmental conditions
• Collect, process, and analyze data
• disseminate intelligence

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COASTAL BATTLEFIELD RECONNAISSANCE AND ANALYSIS

• Availability of shallow water data to merge
  differs in accordance with coast type
• Consider interaction of physical and biological
  processes
• Typical coast types (e.g., Shepard, 1977) might
  include
• Drowned River Delta Fiord
• Drumlins Volcanic Fault
• Wave Erosion Barrier Island
  Cuspate Foreland
• Mangrove Coral Reef
• Understanding coast types is necessary to
  characterize beaches
• Vary aerial and hydrographic survey methodologies
  to provide authoritative representations of
  coastal zone
• Optimize sensors
• Extract features

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COASTAL BATTLEFIELD RECONNAISSANCE AND ANALYSIS

• Date collection, processing, analysis, and
  display
• Ongoing research topic for areas not accessible
  by survey vessels
• Non-intrusive (remote sensing based) methods such
  as SHOALS system or vertical photography/imagery
  in combination with water level data
• Intrusive surveys using AUVS such as REMUS or
  SAHRV
• Identify sensors and construct a data model
• Prototype data for use in TDAs, MPAS, and MS
• Integrate datasets and digital libraries
• Develop a data dictionary
• Establish rule sets for conflation, fusion, etc.
• Development of Multiple Database Integration and
  Update capability for coastal zone

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COASTAL BATTLEFIELD RECONNAISSANCE AND ANALYSIS

• Developmental tasks
• Classify littoral areas, determine time, depths,
  location, benchmark heights, maximum water level,
  make immovable structure and location comments,
  etc.
• Obtain all sources of data (bottom-mounted
  sensors to satellites)
• Approve value-add methods for aerial and
  hydrographic surveys using AUVs and UAVs
• Build littoral logical data model
• Create master database (e.g., create a two-way
  library architecture)
• Update the baseline products such as nautical
  charts and digital sea-floor grids
• Validate updated products for general use

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COASTAL BATTLEFIELD RECONNAISSANCE AND ANALYSIS

• QUESTIONS