Naval Postgraduate School
Theses and Dissertations
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Compilation of Abstracts, March 2017
(Monterey, California; Naval Postgraduate School, 2016-07)
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Tactical Model of Hyperspectral Imagery in Support of Theater Ballistic Missile
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1997-06)
This thesis presents techniques for simulating hyperspectral imagery (HSI) in an effort to counter the threat of mobile theater ballistic missiles. Using Predator and Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as air ...
Sea Lance
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2017-08-31)
Mobile Electronic Devices, Automated Analysis Capabilities, and the Impact on Command and Control During Humitarian Assistance Disaster Relief Operations
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2014-09)
A widely-shared and common command and control (C2) system with mobile device integration is overwhelmingly seen as a benefit to agencies who doctrinally conduct disaster relief operations. Without a sharable C2 architecture, ...
Analysis of a proposal to implement the readiness-based sparing process in the Brazilian Navy
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2017-06)
With the Brazilian Navy facing increasingly tight budget constraints as a result of the country's severe economic crisis, maintaining appropriate inventory levels of stochastic spare parts, to support complex weapon systems, ...
The human drones of ISIS: How 21st century terrorism uses remote warfare
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2017-06)
Over the course of a few short years, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) expanded from Iraq and Syria into North Africa and South and Southeast Asia. This group initially took advantage of the chaos created by the ...
An efficient missile loadout planning tool for operational planners
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2017-06)
This thesis introduces a planning system that decides which missiles to load on which deploying ships to maximize their campaign effectiveness across all anticipated operational theater war plans. Currently, operational ...
Conflict in time, petrified in space: Kenya-Somalia border geopolitical conflicts
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2017-06)
In response to Kenyan citizens' growing uneasiness with regard to the cross-border violence from Somalia-based terrorists, the government of Kenya has begun to erect a barrier along its shared border with Somalia. This ...
Terminal homing position estimation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle docking
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2017-06)
This study aims at developing an improved methodology for position estimation by which sparse, erroneous and inconsistent sensor observations can be utilized for Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) terminal homing to an ...