In the 1990s, the United States must use the high ground of space if it is to keep pace with an evolving threat. A space based, wide area surveillance system with the capability to detect and track ships and aircraft in all weather conditions, day or night, could provide long-range surveillance, tracking, targeting and intelligence information to tactical commanders, enabling then to revolutionize planning and tactics and to deny the enemy the element of surprise.


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    Title :

    Space based wide area surveillance


    Additional title:

    Raumgestuetzte Beobachtung grosser Bereiche


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Signal ; 43 , 9 ; 30-34


    Publication date :

    1989


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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