Operator Performance in Strike Reconnaissance

Résumé du livre

The purpose, requirements, and constraints of the tactical strike-reconnaissance mission are analyzed. The properties and applications of various sensors and their associated displays, the operator's task, variables affecting his performance, and the operator himself were all considered in this analysis. Two experimental studies were conducted. The first was a clinical investigation of the effects of variations in display resolution and scale factor upon operator performance in target identification. The second was a quantitative experiment to determine the feasibility of predicting the identifiability of targets on the basis of their visible physical attributes revealed at various display resolutions. The results suggest that such predictions are possible. A bibliography of studies related to this area is appended.