Improving Crew Threat Awareness through Augmented Vision

The focus of this research and prototype system development is to integrate spatially related data into a synthetic view of the outside environment for use by vehicle commanders, via a visually augmented indirect vision system.  Street names, building information and intelligence data will be fused with the video from vehicle-mounted cameras. Terrain-associated knowledge hence persists in place in the environment, rather than being verbally relayed, stored in text documents or on paper maps, or being lost entirely. Crucial information - unobtrusively displayed at the right moment and place - allows a vehicle crew to better understand their operational environment, to be aware of threats that may be present, and ultimately to improve situational awareness and crew safety.