Reduced mission time – Rapid Environmental Assessment with an autonomous hydrographic processing software

The NATO introduced the concept of Rapid Environmental Assessment (REA) in 1995 in order to quantify the environmental conditions of the battlespace and provide information to the decision maker as to how the environment will impact proposed operations. As part of the REA strategy, the bathymetry of the battlespace is often a critical part. As the quantity of data that can be gathered has increased significantly, processing times before an REA product can be delivered to the battlespace commander became longer. Therefore a new method of acquiring and processing hydrographic data autonomously whilst the survey is underway is necessary.

REA | NATO | REP | Caris Onboard | mission time | AUV | ASV | autonomous data processing