Datalink Design Trade-Offs For Electro-Optical Reconnaissance Systems

William N. Waggener

doi:10.1117/12.936767

20 February 1987 Datalink Design Trade-Offs For Electro-Optical Reconnaissance Systems

William N. Waggener

Proceedings Volume 0694, Airborne Reconnaissance X; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936767
Event: 30th Annual Technical Symposium, 1986, San Diego, United States

Abstract

The design of the datalink for real-time electro-optical reconnaissance systems is a function of many system variables with many conflicting requirements. The datalink design must consider cost and frequency management issues. Sensor data rate has a particularly strong impact on a number of key design parameters. As the data rate increases, RF bandwidth increases forcing the datalink to operate at higher carrier frequencies. With a fixed RF bandwidth constraint, the higher rate decreases anti-jam processing margin, increases cost and generally increases system complexity. With data compression, the bandwidth can be decreased at the expense of an increasing sensitivity to datalink errors. In this paper, the sensitivity of the datalink design to a number of the most important design requirements is examined with particular attention paid to the datalink cost and frequency management issues.

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William N. Waggener "Datalink Design Trade-Offs For Electro-Optical Reconnaissance Systems", Proc. SPIE 0694, Airborne Reconnaissance X, (20 February 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.936767

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