Maritime surveillance (MS) is crucial for search and rescue operations, fishery monitoring, pollution control, law enforcement, migration monitoring, and national security policies. Since the early days of seafaring, MS has been a critical task for providing security in human coexistence. Several generations of sensors providing detailed maritime information have become available for large offshore

Maritime surveillance (MS) is of paramount importance for search and rescue operations, fishery monitoring, pollution control, law enforcement, migration monitoring, and national security policies. Since ground-based radars and automatic identification system (AIS) do not always provide a comprehensive and seamless coverage of the entire maritime domain, the use of space-based sensors is crucial to

We investigate three emerging topics essential for the development of cognitive radar (CR) for spectrum sharing: the response time (RT) of the CR, the autonomous regulation of the perception-action cycle (PAC), and the regulation of cognition. The RT measures the latency of all algorithms/hardware and is examined with respect to enabling capabilities of software-defined systems for rapid flexibility

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In this article, an interactive tool for simulation of satellites dynamics and autonomous spacecraft guidance is presented. Different geopotential models for orbit propagation of Earth-orbiting satellites are provided, which consider earth's gravitational field with various accuracies. The presented software is a 3-D visualization platform for space orbit simulation with analytical capabilities through

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As the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) is discussing the integration of satellite networks into 5G New Radio (NR) and the mega-constellation low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites are being deployed, communication satellites are gaining momentum for technical and economic success. Ultimate integration of satellites will be able to provide immense payoff for 5G networks, including global coverage

Nowadays, there is an increasing demand to design space systems with a higher level of onboard autonomy. One way to achieve this is to equip the satellite flight software with an autonomous decision system, such as model-based planning techniques. This article addresses an extended Hierarchical Task Network (HTN) description language for satellite onboard mission planning and acting. Our proposal seeks

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Presents a profile of General Billy Mitchell. He was a pioneering American aviator, regarded by many as the Father of the U.S. Air Force. Born on December 29, 1879, in Nice, France, he grew up in an affluent area of Milwaukee; his father was eventually a Senator for Wisconsin. He served as an airman in World War I and became one of the top aces, highly decorated, and finishing World War I as Chief

The articles in this special section focus on some recent and ongoing developments of artificial intelligence in the context of data fusion.

Nowadays, radar-based surveillance systems already consist of highly complex tracking, sensor data fusion, and identification algorithms, which track the trajectories of moving objects. They are embedded in a real-time middleware with a straight forward processing chain according to the Joint Directors of Laboratories (JDL) fusion model. With the spread of new technologies, e.g., big data, distributed

With the rising popularity of artificial intelligence (AI), also target surveillance based on radar sensors aims to tap the potential of AI enabled through today's computational capacities. Here, we present a survey of past approaches as well as recent hot topics in the area of AI approaches for target surveillance with radar sensors that reveal new potential for the development of novel approaches

Integrating information collected by different types of sensors observing the same or related phenomenon can lead to more accurate and robust decision making. The purpose of this article is to review sensor fusion approaches to achieve passive radio frequency (RF) and electro-optical (EO) sensor fusion and to present the proposed fusion of EO/RF neural network (FERNN). While research has been conducted

Artificial intelligence (AI), owing to recent breakthroughs in deep learning, has revolutionized applications and services in almost all technology domains including aerospace. AI and deep learning rely on huge amounts of training data that are mostly generated at the network edge by Internet of Things (IoT) devices and sensors. Bringing the sensed data from the edge of a distributed network to a centralized

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During Fusion 2019 Conference (https://www.fusion2019.org/program.html), leading experts presented ideas on the historical, contemporary, and future coordination of artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) with sensor data fusion (SDF). While AI/ML and SDF concepts have had a rich history since the early 1900s—emerging from philosophy and psychology—it was not until the dawn of computers that

“For knowledge itself is power...”--- Francis Bacon's statement on achieving power as the meaning of all knowledge marks the beginning of the modern project. At the latest since the advent of AI in the defense domain, however, technology meant for the benefit of humanity may turn against humanity. This specific type of instrumental knowledge makes the modern crisis as visible as in spotlight. Ethical

Europe's democracies are in disorder. Their unease is also consequential to Europe's ubiquitous digital progress. In particular, when citizens are permanently being monitored by their mobile devices, when their behavior is being controlled through continuously fired stimuli using online media, digitization becomes a game changer for democratic societies. The continuous tracking and tracing of the individual

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A waypoint planning algorithm for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is presented that is teamed with an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) for the task of search and rescue in a subterranean environment. The UAV and UGV are teamed such that the localization of the UAV is conducted on the UGV via the multisensor fusion of a fisheye camera, 3-D light detection and ranging, ranging radio, and a laser altimeter

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Following governmental strategies to acquire “…capability to watch for objects and natural phenomena that could harm satellites in orbit,” a number of ground-based radars (GBRs) have been deployed for space situational awareness (SSA). In particular, networks of GBRs support the characterization of possible collision trajectories for different types of debris against orbital assets. On the other side

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Wireless jamming has been a long-standing issue both in critical infrastructure research and real-world applications, with particular importance in systems that deal with long communication distances and low received signal strength. Air traffic control is one such system, experiencing a rising number of reports of outside interference with the underlying wireless technologies. In this article, we

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One hundred development and certification ground tests must be performed before the A400M aircraft's first flight. Ground testing is an essential but also expensive process performed by the Airbus Defense and Space (Airbus DS) Company in the manufacturing cycle of an aircraft. This process involves the repetition of a large group of tests due to failures (known in the terminology of the company as

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Following the global Covid-19 pandemic, travelers to many countries are now required to produce negative virus tests. A requirement to prove positive vaccination status would also be advantageous in order to ensure that passenger numbers return to their pre-2019 levels. A separate “Vaccination Passport” document is at this time suggested. However, there exists space within the existing digital passport

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The analysis of large amount of sensor data can enhance aircraft operations and maintenance. In contrast to other use cases, aircraft sensor data are accumulated on-board during the flight. The data need to be transferred in a short time while the aircraft is on the ground due to limited and expensive connectivity in the air. This leads to a massive transfer of data in a short time. Therefore, we analyze