Today's military pilots are bombarded with information from moving- maps and other advanced cockpit displays. Current moving-map displays in the AV- 8B Harrier and F/A-18 Hornet naval aircraft are based on scanned aeronautical charts, which are familiar to pilots but present an unalterable - and sometimes illegible - display. When mission-planning symbols (i.e., targets, threats, routes, etc.) are overlaid on these scanned-map displays, the result can be extremely cluttered. In contrast, the advent of 'vector' geospatial databases offers the potential for customized moving-maps, in which user-specified geospatial features can be layered (with or without a base-map, such as satellite imagery) to suit specific mission requirements. The primary disadvantage of vector-based cockpit moving maps is the potential for increased pilot workload, unless these new map displays are carefully designed for the target user.
Evaluation of Vector Geospatial Databases in Cockpit Moving-Map Displays to Improve Pilot Performance
2000
9 pages
Report
No indication
English
Aircraft , Logistics Military Facilities & Supplies , Cartography , Human factors engineering , Data displays , Digital maps , Data bases , Optimization , Performance(Human) , Mission profiles , Pilots , Naval aircraft , Attack aircraft , User needs , Situational awareness , Moving maps , Vector maps , Av-8b aircraft , F/a-18 aircraft , Geospatial information
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