Architectural solutions of conformal network-centric staring-sensor systems with spherical field of view
This work addresses the design of advanced electro-optical surveillance systems for defense or remote sensing applications, but it remains conceptual with no concrete results or validation.
The paper proposes a concept for network-centric conformal electro-optical systems with a spherical field of view, using distributed focal array detectors and conformal processing in a coordinate-time field. It discusses the complexity of optimizing such systems and outlines systematic and synergy approaches for their synthesis.
The article presents the concept of network-centric conformal electro-optical systems construction with spherical field of view. It discusses abstract passive distributed electro-optical systems with focal array detectors based on a group of moving objects distributed in space. The system performs conformal processing of information from sensor matrix in a single event coordinate-time field. Unequivocally the construction of the systems which satisfy the different criteria of optimality is very complicated and requires special approaches to their development and design. The paper briefly touches upon key questions (in the authors' opinion) in the synthesis of such systems that meet different criteria of optimality. The synthesis of such systems is discussed by authors with the systematic and synergy approaches.