MILITARY MISSION PLANNING USING AUGMENTED REALITY TECHNOLOGY
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Authors
Knobeloch, Bert
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military mission planning environment
augmented reality
virtual reality
simulation
sand table
mission planning process
operations
augmented reality
virtual reality
simulation
sand table
mission planning process
operations
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Sadagic, Amela
Fitzpatrick, Christian R.
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2020-06
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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In this age of globalism and multilateralism, military tasks are becoming more complex and distributed across much larger areas of interest. Regardless of the type of mission, being well prepared is the crucial requirement for success; part of that success is owed to meticulous, well-structured mission planning. Frequently executed briefings ensure the mutual understanding of the objectives and challenges the unit is facing, and the commander's intent to achieve them. Computer-aided alternatives to the traditional sand table have been too expensive to develop, field, and sustain, and sometimes failed to meet the desired results and were not adopted into daily practice.
We designed and developed a mobile version of the virtual sand table, which uses only commercial-off-the-shelf products, thus proving that it is feasible to use augmented reality technology with its intuitive user-interaction techniques and go beyond the traditional sand table capabilities. Our approach includes the integration and support of a precisely scaled three-dimensional model of the real-world terrain and a novel first-person perspective that can be used for closer inspection. This solution eliminates the dependency on costly technical support teams to develop or modify the new mission's terrain. The system reduces the possibility of human error and misunderstandings by supporting multiple simultaneous viewing perspectives and provides the foundation for a network-based collaboration mode.
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