THE ECORS SYSTEM: A MOBILITY DECISION-MAKING TOOL

摘要

Scientists and professionals of the geotechnical, remote sensing and decision-making system domains have joined their forces in order to develop a prototype which could help military forces in decisions related to mobility. This prototype, named ECORS, intends to characterize operations theatres from Earth observation data, by producing decision-aid information for military forces projections in terrestrial zones. Observation devices, involved as input sources, include either remote sensing or soil characterization techniques. For each kind of operation, decisions are oriented from a strategic, operative and tactical point of view. The prototype takes into account several time scales for climatic data, several space scales ranging from the few hundred square kilometers to the few hundred square meters depending on the operational level, and several kinds of information from physical to observed field parameters. The project has realized a state of the art on the possibility to use existing geographical data and remote sensing techniques that could give a strong added value for mobility performance prediction. Analysis of relevant terrain parameters useful for predicting vehicle mobility performances such as soil type, soil water content, soil mechanical parameters, slope, vegetation, obstacles and axes (roads, trails, …) has also been collected on specific test-sites for validation.