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METPLAN Environmental Data Access for
Mission Planning
This program demonstrates the functionality required for environmentally-intelligent
JSOW mission planning. Wagner Associates has worked closely with
JSOW mission planners and METOC personnel to determine tactical
displays and data management required to meet mission planners'
needs with current and developing METOC capabilities.
The purpose of developing the prototype Joint Standoff Weapon
(JSOW) Mission Planning Module (MPM) was to demonstrate a tool
for retrieving and managing environmental data. We call this tool
METPLAN because its functionality is
similar to that of METCAST,
but to the mission planner instead of the METOC officer.
The METOC data retrieved by METPLAN is from the Coupled
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS).
METPLAN retrieves real-time COAMPS forecasts through an interface
with the Tactical
Environmental Data Server (TEDS) located at the Naval
Research Laboratory in Monterey, CA.
METCAST is intended to be easily interfaced with any mission
planner, automatically providing the right METOC data at the right
time, in the right format.
JSOW
Prototype MPM
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The following pages provide documentation for the prototype
Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) Mission Planning Module (MPM). The
prototype is the product of an SBIR contract with NAVAIR to improve
JSOW mission planning with the inclusion of Meteorological and
Oceanographic (METOC) data.
If you have a question or suggestion regarding the documentation
or would like to request a CD containing the MPM, contact James Eanes of Daniel H.
Wagner Associates. We have developed this program with suggestions
from mission planners and METOC personnel, and we would greatly
appreciate any input that you might provide.
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User
Manual
We have developed this manual to be as informative and easy-to-use
as possible. To that end, we have provided links to almost everything
mentioned in the following pages. However, we suggest following
the "Continue" links through the demonstration until
the end.
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METPLAN Tutorial
METPLAN METOC Product Displays
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MPM Prototype Example, Showing METOC
Displays
Prototype MPM Details
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Start the Tutorial==>
For more information contact James
Eanes at our Hampton, Virginia office.
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