Geographic information in peace and war.

Today, data security also means geographic information. The wrong people know your location. Which can cause very bad things. The burglars can use that data. And also people who want to kidnap other people. This means that geographic information plays a vital role in many cases. If a military unit reveals its location to the wrong people, that can cause destruction. Otherwise, when their own troops call things like fire support. The fire support team requires. Their own people's position. They must also know the equipment. That the enemy has. Things like tanks require special weapons. And also.  If their own tanks are advancing, the coordination team requires knowledge about the ammunition and fuel that they used. 

The systems that collect geographic information are dual-use tools. Those systems can make sensor fusion for the intelligent glasses. The system can share and connect information from multiple sources. And things like drones can search the back of the fighters. The drone can have a WLAN. Or a wire connection. If a drone flies ahead, the warrior uses optical wire. That makes the drone very hard to jam. Those systems can use wearable technology. 

The geographic information and ability to collect and control this kind of information are vital for civil and military use. The geographic information tools. That can show things like plots, and then connect. information about owners and points. Where certain things, like well, are. The plots can be used to find all necessary information. In seconds. When the operator points the mouse. At a certain point on a map. Or an aerial, or a satellite image, the system finds. Who owns that point? The operator can change images. From satellite to higher-resolution aerial images. Or map image. 

That kind of thing can help to find many things. Like, who has responsibility at some point on the ground? In the case of fire. The firefighters need special location information. They need the knowledge of biomass. And how dry the weather is. They also need information about the winds. And things like the locations of water points. The system must know what is needed. At some point. If firemen require water, there is no need for an ambulance. The system must collect all needed information. But it must filter unnecessary data. 

Like some holiday commercials. If the system delivers too much data. That turns heavy and loses its effectiveness. If there is a lot of meaningless data, it can cause a disaster. Because the control unit requires too much time. To find the data that it needs. In stressful situations, the system must deliver only data that the operator needs. Things like cases of fire are basically similar to cases of war. The fact is that the same platforms can connect data sources. Into one entirety. It can serve the financial investor who wants to buy plots.

 It can serve firefighters. And rescue people. The IR sensors and laser scanners can search routes to the water point. And places where fire is free. The system can connect things. Like surveillance cameras, drones, and aircraft. With the fast-updating topological information. When we think about sensor fusion, we can think. The system can make a fusion. Using databases and real-time information. The thing is that the same systems that can connect geological information can operate in peace and war. The platforms that were made to support the military. The thing that the datasets involve. Determines the purpose of the system. The system requires knowledge. Of what kind of landscape awaits at certain map points? The system needs information. If there is some kind of mud, what type of vehicles can move on tracks?  

The same thing that tells how much water firefighters have. Can tell how many grenades the artillery has. Fast-updating, precise geological information is urgent for modern warfare. Laser scanners, visual and IR cameras can make some stealth systems ineffective. The drone can find its own people using a laser scanner. If those people have the transponders. Like the laser LED. The laser scanner activates that LED. If the laser scanner sends the right code, the laser LED tells. That there are their own people. The laser systems can also search for harmful chemicals in the AIr. That warns about things like chemical weapons. 

The system uses multiple sensors that operate in multiple bandwidths. When the controller wants to know. What equipment do those people have? The controller must just click the symbol, which tells. What equipment does the field team have? The intelligent systems can count every shot. It sends an automatic request for new ammunition to the HQ. 

The new ultra-precise LiDAR systems can be game-changers.

"Researchers have designed a single-photon time-of-flight LiDAR system that can produce high-resolution 3D images of objects and faces that are some distance away. The top images show 3D-printed pillars imaged from 45 meters away in broad daylight. The lower images depict a recognizable human face from a person 325 meters away. Credit: Aongus McCarthy, Heriot-Watt University" (ScitechDaily, Ultra-Precise LiDAR Sees Through Smoke and Camouflage From a Kilometer Away)

The new ultra-precise LiDAR technology scans objects through dust, smoke, and camouflage. The LiDAR or "laser radar" is the next-generation tool that can make traditional stealth technology useless. The light or coherent light reflects from most surfaces. 

The answer against that technology is the network-based structure that can deny the reflection. The absorbing materials are vulnerable to directed energy weapons. The absorbing material ties energy into itself. And it turns very hot if it cannot dump energy somewhere. Any object cannot store unlimited energy levels. 

If the energy level rises too high, the material melts. The entropy causes a situation in which the material turns soft and finally, it will be destroyed. If the material can dump energy out from it that decreases entropy in the system. But the system needs to put energy somewhere. 

The optical scanner systems that are based on radar technology there the radio waves are replaced by optical wavelengths or coherent optical wavelengths that are immune against things like "chameleon camouflage".

"The researchers also used the new imaging system to image LEGO characters from 32 m away. Credit: Aongus McCarthy, Heriot-Watt University" (ScitechDaily, Ultra-Precise LiDAR Sees Through Smoke and Camouflage From a Kilometer Away

The LiDAR technology is one of the fastest-advancing technologies in the world. The distances of 350 meters and 1000 meters are not the same as radar systems. However, developers can connect many other systems like visual CCD cameras, IR systems, and other things. And the LiDAR systems advancing. 

This kind of system can scan also software objects like humans that are been difficult objects for traditional radars. The LiDAR system makes the 3D image of the target, and if that system is connected with the CCD cameras that technology makes it possible to create an ultra-realistic hologram of the target. The system can also make realistic 3D images of the person or any surface. 

The LiDAR system can also be used to transmit information through the air. The scanning LiDAR can detect the right receivers and then send data to the sensor. LiDAR can detect objects using an indirect way. The system can detect how molecules move around the objects. Or the system can use frequencies that don't resonate hydrogen or oxygen. 

When we think about LiDAR technology the scanning system can use low-power lasers that don't harm objects, when they are in a surveillance mode. But if the system detects hostile targets that laser system can increase its power. And then it can cut the wing off from the aircraft. 

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The 4G and 5G network co-operation with aerial vehicles

The 4G and 5G network co-operation with aerial vehicles

The ground-based data networks are not always suitable to cooperate with aerial vehicles. The problem with compatible is causing, because of the land-based data networks need different kind of roaming protocol than land-based communication equipment. The roaming means the ability to change the relay station automatically, and the system works that the network is locating the mobile device, and when the other support station turns to dominant, the station would be changed.

And the aerial vehicle has problems that the roaming must happen faster than with the ground vehicles, and the direction or angle of the vehicle is different. The normal data network is created for supporting the ground-based system, and the aerial vehicles can be in the shadow if they are flying over some areas.

The supporting- or relay stations of the network are normally in the places, where is straight visibility to the ground. But to the air is limits. If the station is below the eaves, the metal structure can cover the drone, which flies in the line where is a metal structure in the straight line between the support station and drone. When we are thinking about the possibility to control drones from another side of Earth by using civilian internet that is possible.

But in this case, the drone must equip with the program, which allows it to look for the signals independently if the network signal is gone. Or the drones can work in pairs or groups, where one drone is always keeping contact with the network, and then that drone would deliver the control signals from the internet to other drones.

There are many problems with that kind of thing. But if the quadcopters would be equipped with TERCOM and DSMAC-type systems, they could operate independently in the city areas. In this case, the aircraft or satellite can create the 3D-map image and the drones can use Lidars or other types of systems to observe the area.

Drone swarms and intelligent inertial systems

Some of those drones might be equipped with gyroscopes or inertial navigation systems. That system would record the track, and then it would fly back to the position, where it had last time the control signal. when we are thinking about the intelligent inertial system, the system needs only the gyroscope. And the other data that the system needs would get from propellers.

The system simply calculates how many times the propellers have been rotated during the time unit, and then the system would just fly back the movements, what it has taken. And then the computer just rotates the propellers as many times as it has been rotated during that distance.

So there is not necessarily needed the acceleration sensors at all. The acceleration sensor would be ineffective if it is used in the low-speed flight. But if we are using a laser-based system, what meters the range to the walls and other barriers, that kind of system can calculate the acceleration very effectively even in the low-speed flying.

Lidar is a very good tool for that purpose because it can use as the altimeter. But also normal, small size radar or sonar, what is similar, what is used in the mobile telephones for focusing cameras can be used for that thing. That system can also scan the ground and buildings.

Multiple sensors guarantee the success of the mission, but every drone must not have the same kind of sensor pack. And artificial intelligence makes those swarms very flexible.

The CCD-cameras can look at the environment by using the normal, and infrared frequencies. And those drones can also connect their computers to one bigger entirety, which makes it possible to connect their capacities to run those programs. The drones can also communicate with the satellite by using the GPS and satellite communication sets.

The thing is that only one drone must have the satellite communication set with a high-speed modem. That is so-called "master drone", what would deliver missions to the other and simpler drones. The thing is that the master drones would observe simpler drones, and if some of those "slave drones" would be lost contact, the master sends the relay drone to see, what is happening.

So, in this case, the drone swarm might have many types of members. Only a couple of members have all systems, and the others, what is operating in the "danger zone", where they can be damaged might be simpler. And those simpler drones might be located by using RFID-based triangular metering systems. That helps to keep the price of those systems lower.