High Resolution 3d Acoustic Pre-Launch and Boost Phase Detection/Tracking System A-Acoustic and Seismic

"The proposed Phase I effort addresses the problem of early pre-launch warning forballistic missiles and early boost phase missile detection and tracking.Specifically, the effort will evaluate the application of new energy efficient, highresolution, 3d, acoustic linear processing array concepts to the detection andtracking of pre-launch trailer-erector-launchers (TELs) and early boost phasemissiles in spectrally competitive and realistic environments. The new linearprocessing technology obtains natural high resolution by managing arrays with manysensors, distinguishing it from contemporary technologies based upon cross-spectraldensity/beamforming (or mathematically equivalent) processing. This technologypermits noise reduction and multi-target tracking to be accomplished withoutadaptive processing, the reconstruction of individual signals of resolvable targetsfor classification purposes, and a significant reduction in array power requirementsin comparison to cross-spectral density based processors. The Phase I evaluationwill develop sensor time series simulations of data collected for pre-launchTEL/convoy and early boost phase BMDO scenarios and apply to it the proposedoptimized array processing technology. The Phase I product will report detectionrange and resolving power as a function of optimized array operational parameters,providing for future comparison with other acoustic array types. High resolution, 3d, energy efficient l