Transcript Why: Requirements - Mine Warfare Association

Mine Warfare Databases
RDML Thomas J. Wilson, III
Oceanographer of the Navy
Agenda
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Requirements
Databases
Applications
Challenges
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Strategic Collection Requirements Process
CNO N096
• Validates/Prioritizes
Survey Requirements for
execution
COMNAVMETOCCOM
NAVOCEANO
• Prepares survey/production plan
CFFC
CMWC/
FLEETS
• Generates strategic MIW Requirements for
Q-Routes, SLOCs, CVOAs, AOAs, Ports
MCM Data Collection
Tactical
Contingencies
Operational
Battle Space Preparation
(CVOAs, AOAs)
Strategic
Q-Routes, SLOCs, Ports
MIW Survey Requirements
• CENTCOM
– Total Survey miles : 620 nm
– 90% Complete
• PACOM
– Total Survey Miles: 458 nm
– < 5% (Survey ops ongoing)
• NORTHCOM
– Total Survey Miles: 1700 nm
– 95% Complete
• EUCOM
– Total Survey Miles: 3500 nm
– NATO Survey Routes
Nominal Refresh Requirements
Arabian Gulf Analysis:
-- Strong Currents
-- Heavy Vessel Traffic
-- Sediment Deposition
3 yrs
Republic of
Arabian
East
Korea
Gulf Mediterranean East
West
8 yrs
3 yrs
(years)
(years)
Currents
3
3
3
5
Sediment Deposition
and Dredging
3
3
3
5
Vessel Traffic
8
3
3
3
Minimal
Minimal
3
3
(years)
Factors
Storms
Q-route location can minimize refresh requirements
Database Ownership
MEDAL Databases:
Maintained by:
Fleet Users
Tactical MCM
Data Sets:
Tactical Areas, Assets, Contacts,
Plans Clearance Evaluations, Risk
Assessments
Environment
NAVO
System
Performance
CSS
Hunt & Sweep parameters &
related performance (Py data)
CMWC/NAVO
Contact data and related
imagery (if available)
Contact Survey
Environment
Mine Threat
Bathymetry, Bottom Characteristics
Water Currents, & Water Properties
Areas, Contacts, Notes, Worksheets,
plans, etc. Everything of a specific
operation
Environmental Databases
• Temperature/Salinity/SSP
Winter
– 8 Million Profiles World-Wide.
 Used for SQQ-32 Performance Prediction
• Currents
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Summer
Provinced Current Speed by Season.
Major Forcing Functions Which Effect Current
Speed
 Used for EOD & MNV Deployment
• Optics
– ~ 400,000 Profiles Optical Profiles World-Wide
 Used for Optical Systems (AQS-24, MNV)
and Emerging Organic LIDAR (ALMDS,
RAMICS, AQS-20A)
• Bathymetry
– Worldwide varying resolutions
 Used to define Mineable Waters and Sensor
Allocation
Database Resolution
Element:
• Acoustic Imagery:
• Bathymetry:
• Bottom Sediments :
• Bottom Roughness:
• Bottom Clutter:
• Mine Burial:
• SVPs:
• Currents
• Optics:
(* NWP 3-15)
Resolution*
< 10 cm
20 m/2% depth
100 m/0.003mm
100 m/ < 10 cm
100 m/ 3 per NM
100 m
Per collection plan
100m/0.5kt
TBD
Application to Tactical Planning
GCCS-M MEDAL Segment
Environmental Folders
MCM Plans Directory
–Bathymetry
–Bottom Characteristics
–Water Currents
Environment
–Physical Properties (SVP)
Mine Threat
–Acoustics (minesweeping)
Equipment
–Magnetics (minesweeping)
–Atmospherics
–Bottom Features
Route Survey Contacts
Plans
MCM Plan
Transparent, UCPLN
Pre-Built,
A/B Worksheets
UCPLN Module
Tracks
Percent
Clearance
Time
Environmental Databases Drive
Tactics and Timelines
Side Scan Sonar Imagery
Clearance Level
Must ASSUME Without
“a priori” information
Actual MIW Bottom
Types
B1
B2
B3
B3
Realistic Time/Risk
Assessment
Time
B2
B1
A3
A2
Change Detection/Accurate Characterization results in up
to 45% Reduction in Clearance Timeline
Operation Iraqi Freedom Take-aways
• Revised Tactics from Sweeping to
Hunting based on initial AN/AQS-14
data/Diver Reports
•Increase Percent clearance from ~50%
to 80% and ~ 4:1 timeline reduction
• Through-the-Sensor (AN/AQS-14)
tactical data collection was critical for safe
navigation of humanitarian/supply ships
into Umm Qasr
Challenges
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Data collection in forward areas
Improved Database Management
Allied Cooperation and Data Exchange
Digital High Resolution Databases…
… Analog Tactics:
Master Contact Database
Generation
UNCLASSIFIE D
UNCLASSIFIE D
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UNCLASSIFIE D
B3
UNCLASSIFIE D
B1
=
A1
Q-Route Survey Log
(Pre-1996)
Digital Imagery
Doctrinal Bottom Types