Abbreviations and Acronyms

ABBREVIATIONS, ACRONYMS AND DEFINITIONS  [1] [2]

 

The following terms are common to the UAS / CUAS  /UUV /SPACE industries, general literature, or conferences on UAS/UAV/Drone/UUV/ SPACE systems. A majority of the technical abbreviations come from  DRONE DELIVERY OF CBNRECy – DEW WEAPONS Emerging Threats of Mini-Weapons of Mass Destruction and Disruption (WMDD); (Nichols & Sincavage, 2022) (Nichols R. K. et al., Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the Cyber Domain, 2019) and (Nichols R.   al., Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technologies, and Operations, 2020) (Nichols & et al., 2020) (Nichols R.et al., Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) in Cyber Domain: Protecting USA’s Advanced Air Assets, 2nd Edition, 2019) (Nichols R. K., Chapter 14: Maritime Cybersecurity, 2021) (Nichols & Sincavage, Disruptive Technologies with Applications in Airline, Marine, and Defense Industries, 2021) (Nichols & Ryan, Unmanned Vehicle Systems & Operations on Air, Sea & Land, 2020) (Adamy D. L., Space Electronic Warfare, 2021) (Nichols & Sincavage, 2022)

 

 

 

 

ABM               Anti-ballistic missile

ABS                Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (material

A/C                 Aircraft (Piloted or unmanned) also A/C

ACAS              Airborne Collision Avoidance System

A/CFD            Aircraft Flood Denial jamming

ACOUSTIC    Detects drones by recognizing unique sounds produced by their motors.

A/D                 Attack / Defense Scenario Analysis

ADS                Air Defense System (USA) / Area Denial System

A/C FD           Aircraft flood denial

ADS-B            Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast systems

AFRL              Air Force Research Lab

A-GPS            Assisted GPS

Ag                   Agriculture sector

AGL                Above ground level

AHI                 Anomalous Health Incidents

AI                    Artificial intelligence: “1. a branch of computer science dealing with the

simulation of intelligent behavior in computers, and 2: the capability of a machine

to imitate intelligent human behavior.” (Merriam-Webster, 2020)

AI                    The ability of machines and technological devices, programs, and creations to sense, process, learn, and adapt to information from their surroundings. (Wright, 2020)

AIS                 Automated Identification System for Collision Avoidance

A/J                  Anti-jam

ALBM             Ballistic missile launched from a B-47

AMI                Agonist-antagonist Myo-neural Interface

AMAZE          EU’s Additive Manufacturing Aiming Towards Zero Waste and Efficient Production of High-Tech Metal Products project

AMS               Autonomous Mobile Sword (SCREAMER) uses sound to disrupt the brain before cutting the enemy to pieces.

AO                  Area of Operations

AOA               Angle of Arrival of signals to GPS receivers / Angle of Attack

AOCS              Cooperative Attitude and Orbit Control System takeover

APAC              Asian Pacific Region

APC                Armored personnel carrier

APDS              Armor-piercing discarding sabot projectile

APFSDS         Armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot projectile

APHIS             Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

AR                  Augmented reality

ARC                Adaptive robot chassis

ARW               Anti-radiation weapons

ASAT              Anti-satellite weapons / Anti-satellite missile system

ASM               Attack surface management

ASREN           Association of Geospatial Industries, the Arab States Research and Education

Network

ASG                Autonomous Systems Group

ASW               Anti-Satellite Weapons

ATC                Air Traffic Control / Air traffic Control Signals

ATCC             Air Traffic Control Center

ATHENA        Advanced test high energy asset

ATM               Air Traffic Management

ATS                Air Traffic Services

ATSAW          Air Traffic Situational Awareness

AUV               Autonomous underwater vehicle

Azimuth          The angle between true North and the treat location, in a plane at the satellite perpendicular to the vector from the SVP [Sub-vehicle Point]

Bandwidth is Defined as the Range within a band of wavelengths, frequencies, or energy.

Think of it as a range of radio frequencies occupied by a modulated carrier wave, assigned to a service over which a device can operate. Bandwidth is also a capacity for data transfer of electrical communications systems.

BASE              Bimodal artificial sensory neuron

B&B                Branch & bound

B.C.                 Before Christ

BC                   Ballistic Coefficient

BCI                  Brain Control Interface

BEAR             Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot

BEST              Biomolecule Extraction and Sequencing Technology

Black Swan     Black Swan Event- A black swan is an unpredictable event beyond what is.

Normally expected of a situation and has potentially severe consequences. Black

swan events are characterized by their extreme rarity, severe impact, and the

widespread insistence they were obvious in hindsight.

(Black Swan Definition, 2020)

BLOS              Beyond line-of-sight

BMI                 Brain Machine Interface

BPAUV          Battlespace Preparation Autonomous Underwater Vehicle

BrO                 Bromine oxide

BSL-4             Biosafety Level #

BTWC             Biological & Toxin Weapons Convention

BVLOS           Beyond Visual Line-of-Sight operations

BVR                Beyond visual range

BW                  Biological weapons

BYOD            Bring your device

C/No               Carrier to Noise ratio

c                      Speed of light ~ (3 x 108 m/s) [186,000 miles per sec] in vacuum named after                 Celeritas, the Latin word for speed or velocity.

C                     CLAW        Combat Laser assault weapon

cs                     speed of sound (344 m/s) in air

C2 / C2W        Command and control / Command and Control Warfare

C3                   Command, control, communications

C3I                  Command, control, communications, and Intelligence

C4                   Command, control, communications, and computers

C4I                  Command, control, communications and computers, intelligence

C4ISR             Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance &  reconnaissance

C4ISTAR        Command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, target

acquisition and reconnaissance

C5I                  Command, control, communications, computers, Collaboration & Intelligence

CA                  Collision Avoidance / Clear Acquisition (GPS) / Cyber Assault (aka CyA)

C/A                 GPS Satellite Course Acquisition unique code

CAA               Control Acquisition cyber attack

CAGR             Compound annual growth rate

CAI                 Counter AI

CAMS             Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service

CAS                Close Air Support / Common situational awareness

CBRN             Chemical, Biological, Radiation & Nuclear critical infrastructure facilities

CBRNE          Chemical, Biological, Radiation, Nuclear & Explosives attacks critical infrastructure facilities or assets

CBRNECy      Chemical, Biological, Radiation, Nuclear, Explosives &  Cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure facilities or assets

CBW               Chemical, Biological Weapons

CCC                Circular Cross-Correlation in classical GPS receivers

CC&D             Camouflage, Concealment, and Deception

CCTV             Closed Circuit Television

CD                   Collective detection maximum likelihood localization approach (Eichelberger, Robust Global Localization using GPS and Aircraft Signals, 2019)

CD                  Charge diameters

Cd                   Drag coefficient

CDC                Center for Disease Control

CDMA            Code division multiple access protocol

CD                  Collective detection maximum likelihood localization approach (Eichelberger, 2019)

CE                   Circular economy

CEA                Cyber-electromagnetic activities

CEP                 Circular error probable

CETC              Chinese Electronics Technology Group Corporation

CEW               Cyber electronic warfare / Communications electronic warfare

CGA               Coast Guard Administration – Singapore

CFSPH            Center for Food Security and Public Health (CFSPH)

CHAMP          Counter-Electronics High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project

CHATGPT      AIs referred to as GPTs (Generative Pre-Trained Transformer)

CHS                Cyber-Human Systems

CIA                 Confidentiality, Integrity & Availability ( standard INFOSEC paradigm)

CI / CyI           Critical Infrastructure / Cyber Infiltration

CIA                 Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability / Central Intelligence Agency

CIRCIA           Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act

CIS                  Critical Infrastructure Sector

CISA               Critical Infrastructure Security Agency

CIWS              Close-in weapon system

CJNG              Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación

CM / CyM       Countermeasure / Cyber Manipulation

CMADS          China’s Microwave Active Denial System

C/NA              Communication / Navigation Aid

CNA               Computer network attack

CND               Computer network deception

CNE                Computer network exploitation

CNO               Computer network operations

CNS                Central nervous system

CNSA              China National Space Administration

CO-ASAT       Co-orbital (Co-ASAT) missile system

COMINT        Communications intelligence

COMJAM       Communications Jamming

COMINT        Communications Intelligence

COMSEC       Communications Security / Cryptographic Security

CONOP(S)     Concepts of Operations

CONUS           Continental United States

CONV            Convergent Technology Dynamics

CONV-CBRN Convergent Technology Dynamics – Chemical, Biological, Radiation & Nuclear

COP                Common operating picture

COSPAR         The Committee on Space Research

COTS              Commercial off-the-shelf / Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS)

CM                  Apollo Command Modules

CNPC              Control and non-payload links

CPB                 Charged particle beam

CPS                 Cyber-physical systems

CR                   Conflict Resolution / Close range / Cyber Raid (aka CyR)

CRISPR           Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

CSI                  Crime scene investigation

CSIS                Center for strategic and International Studies

CSLM             Quench furnace for studying coarsening in metals

CT                   Counterterrorism / Counter-Terrorism Mission

CTI                  Computerized Tomography Image (scan)

CTN                Course -Time Navigation , A-GPS technique which drops the requirement to decode the HOW timestamps from the GPS signals. CTN also refers to a snapshot receiver localization technique measuring sub-millisecond satellite ranges from correlation peaks, like classical GPS receivers.

C-UAS            Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems (defenses/countermeasures)

CUAV            Counter Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle (defenses/countermeasures)

CUES              Code for unplanned encounters at sea

CW / CyW      Cyber Warfare

CWC               Chemical Weapons Convention

CWMD           Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Community

CYBER WEAPON   Malicious Software and IT systems that, through ICTS networks,

manipulate, deny, disrupt, degrade, or destroy targeted information systems or

networks. It may be deployed via computer, communications, networks, rogue

access points, USBs, acoustically, electronically, and airborne/underwater

unmanned systems & SWARMS. Alternatively, cyber weapons:

  1. A campaign that may combine multiple malicious programs for espionage, data theft, or sabotage.
  2. A stealth capability that enables undetected operation within the targeted system over an extended time.
  3. An attacker with apparent intimate knowledge of details for the workings of the targeted system.
  4. A special type of computer code to bypass protective cybersecurity technology.

CYBORG       CYBernetic ORGanism coined by Manfred Clynes (1960) – the increase in human capability through mechanical or electrical means resulting in improved biological, biomechanical or neurological human abilities (Clynes & & Kilne, 1960)

 

DA-ASAT       Direct Accent or Hit-to-Kill (DA-ASAT) missile system

Danger Close

Definition www.benning.army.mil/infantry/magazine/issues/2013/May-June/Myer.html Nov 14, 2013 – 1) danger close is included in the “method-of-engagement” line of a call-for-fire request to indicate that friendly forces are close to the target. … Danger close is a term that is exclusive from risk estimate distance (RED) although the RED for 0.1 percent PI is used to define danger close for aircraft delivery.  Pi = Probability of incapacitation. 2) Definition of “danger close” (US DoD) In close air support, artillery, mortar, and naval gunfire support fires, it is the term included in the method of engagement segment of a call for fires which indicates that friendly forces are within close proximity of the target.

DARPA          Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

DAWIA III     Defense Acquisition University Certification Level III – Senior or Advanced

Dazzle           Cause temporary blindness with Laser

DBC                Digital to Biological Converter

DCPA             Distance between vessels approaching CPA

D&D               Denial & deception

DDD               Dull, dangerous, and dirty

D/D/D             Destruction, Disruption, Deception

DDOS             Distributed Denial of Service cyber attack

DE                   Dark Energy /Directed energy

DEFCON        Defense condition

DEW               Directed energy weapons (also, DE) (Nichols & Sincavage, 2022)

DF                   Direction-finding

DFI                  Digital Forensic Investigation

DHS                Department of Homeland Security

DLL                Diode Laser Levelling System

DM                  Dark Matter

DNA                A molecule inside cells that contains the genetic information responsible for the

development and function of an organism. DNA molecules allow this information

to be passed on from one generation to the next. (Deoxyribonucleic acid)

DOF                Degrees of Freedom

DOS                Denial of Service attack

DPRK             Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

DS                   Deep Space

DTRA             Defense Threat Reduction Agency

DUST              Dual-use Science & Technology threat

1090ES – 1090 Extended Squitter Data Link

EA                   Electronic Attack

Earth Trace     The Earth Trace is the locus of latitude and longitude of the SVP as the satellite moves through its orbit

EARSC           European Association of Remote Sensing Companies

EBO                Effects-based operations

ECCM / EP     Electronic counter-countermeasures / Electronic Protection

ECET              Electronic and Computer Engineering Technology (ECET) program Kansas State

University Aerospace and Technology campus

ECD               Dr. Manuel  Eichelberger’s advanced implementation of CD to detect & mitigate

spoofing attacks on GPS or ADS-B signals (Eichelberger, 2019)

ECCO              Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean

ECM               Electronic countermeasures

ECMWF         European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

ECS                 Environmental control systems

ECoG              Electrocorticography

EEG                Electroencephalograms

EHC                Extra high voltage

EHS                 Electromagnetic hypersensitivity

EIV                  Electronic Vehicles

ELINT             Electronic Intelligence

ELSA-D          Twin small satellite launched in 2020 for End-of-Life-Servicing & Long-Term

orbital sustainability

EM                  Electromagnetic waves

EMC               Electromagnetic compatibility

EMD               Electromagnetic deception

EMF                Electromagnetic field / Extremely low electromagnetic fields

EMI                 Electromagnetic interference

EMP                Electromagnetic pulse –  electromagnetic energy.

EMR               Electromagnetic radiation

EMRG             electromagnetic railguns

EMS                Electromagnetic spectrum

EMSEC           Emissions security

EN                   electronic nose

EO                   Electro-optical system

EOS                 Earth Observation Satellites

EPSRC            European Physical Sciences Research Council

ESA                 European Space Agency

ESG                 Environmental, social, & corporate governance

ESOC              European Space Operations Center located in Darmstadt, Germany

EW                  Electronic warfare[Legacy EW definitions: EW was classically divided into (Adamy D., EW 101 A First Course in Electronic Warfare, 2001):

  • ESM – Electromagnetic Support Measures – the receiving part of EW.
  • ECM – Electromagnetic Countermeasures – jamming, chaff, flares used to interfere with operations of radars, military communications, and heat-seeking weapons.
  • ECCM -Electronic Counter-Counter Measures – measures are taken to design or operate radars or communications systems to counter the effects of ECM.[1]

Not included in the EW definitions were Anti-radiation Weapons (ARW) and Directed Energy Weapons (DEW).

USA and NATO have updated these categories:

  • ES – Electronic warfare Support (old ESM) to monitor the R.F. environment.
  • EA – Electronic Attack – the old ECM includes ASW and D.E. weapons; to deny, disrupt, deceive, exploit, and destroy adversary electronic systems.
  • EP – Electronic Protection measures – (old ECCM) (Adamy D., EW 101 A First Course in Electronic Warfare, 2001) to guard friendly systems from hostile attacks.[2]

EW      Electronic Warfare (EW) is the art and science of denying an enemy the benefits of the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) while preserving them for friendly forces. (Wolff, 2022)ES is different from Signal Intelligence (SIGINT). SIGINT comprises Communications Intelligence (COMINT) and Electronic Intelligence (ELINT). All these fields involve the receiving of enemy transmissions. (Adamy D., EW 101 A First Course in Electronic Warfare, 2001)

ESA                 European Space Energy

ET                   Extraterrestrial

EUMETSAT   European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites

EXOMARS     Joint mission between ESA & ROSCOSMOS to find signs of life on Mars

FAA                Federal Aviation Agency

FC                   First Contact

FDM               Fused Deposition Modeling technique

FES                 Functional Electrical Stimulation

FHSS              frequency-hopping spread spectrum

FIRES             definition (US DoD – JP 3-0) is the use of weapon systems to create a specific

lethal or nonlethal effect on a target

FPS                 Feet Per Second

FSS                 Frequency Selective Surfaces

FY-4                China (FY-4) Lightning Mapping Imager

G                     G is the gravitational constant, N x m2 / kg2 ; N= Newtons, G = 6.067 X 10-11

GAO                Government Accountability Office

GCS                Ground control station

GEE                Google Earth Engine

GEO                Group on Earth Observations

GIS                  Geographical information system

GLGP              Gun-launched guided projectile

GLM               Geostationary Lightning Mappers

GLONASS      Global Navigation Satellite System

GNC                Guidance navigation control

GNSS              Global Navigation Satellite System (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, Beidou & other

regional systems)

GNU                GNU / Linux Operating system

GOES              R-series Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-16 and 17)

GPM               Global precipitation measurement

GPR                General Purpose Robots

GPS                 Global Positioning System (US) [3] (USGPO, 2021)

GPS                 Global Positioning System / Geo-Fencing

GPS/INS         uses GPS satellite signals to correct or calibrate a solution from an inertial navigation system (INS). The method applies to any GNSS/INS system

GRU                Russian military intelligence branch

GS                   Ground Station

gSSURGO       Gridded Soil Survey Geographic Database

GSFD              Ground station flood denial

GSM               Global system for mobile communications

GTA                Ground-to-Air Defense

Hard damage   DEW complete vaporization of a target

HAPS              High Altitude Platforms (generally for wireless communications enhancements)

HAPS UAVs   UAVs dedicated to HAPS service (example to communicate via CNPC links)

HAZMAT       Hazardous Materials (may refer to special personnel protective equipment)

HBTSS            Hypersonic and ballistic tracking space sensor

HCM               Hypersonic cruise missile

HDIAC           Homeland Defense & Security Information Analysis Center

HGV               Hypersonic glide vehicle

HEAT             High-explosive anti-tank warhead

HEL                High energy Laser

HELCAP         High energy laser counter ASCM program

HELIOS          High-energy laser with integrated optical dazzler and surveillance

HPM               High powered microwave

HMS               Heat management system

HOW               Hand-over-word satellite data timestamp defined in (IS-GPS-200G, 2013)

HTV                Hypersonic test vehicle

HUMINT        Human Intelligence

HVM               Hostile vehicle mitigation

HVP                High velocity projectile

IAEA              International Atomic Energy Agency

IC                    Intelligence community ~ 17 different agencies

ICAO               International Civil Aviation Organization

ICBM              Intercontinental ballistic missile

ICS                  Internet Connection Sharing / Industrial control systems

ICT                  Information & Communications Technology

ICTS               Information & Communications Technology Services

ID                    Information Dominance / Inspection and Identification /Identification

IDEX              International Defense Exhibition and Conference

IDS                 Intrusion detection system

IED                 Improvised Explosive Device

IEEE                Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IFF                  Identify Friend or Foe

IIIM                International, Impartial, and Independent Mechanism

IMU                Inertial Measurement Unit

IND                 Improvised nuclear device

INFOSEC        Information security

INS                 Inertial navigation system

INSA               Intelligence and National Security Alliance

INFOSEC       Information Security

IO /I.O.           Information Operations

IoT                  Internet of things

IIoT                 Industrial Internet of things

IP                    Internet protocol

IPM                 Integrated Pest management

IR                    Infrared

IS                    Information security / Islamic State

ISO                  International Organization Standardization

ISM                 In-space manufacturing

ISS                  International Space Station

ISIS                 Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)

ISR                  Intelligence, Reconnaissance and Surveillance UAS Platform

ISTAR            Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance

IT                    Information Technology

IT/OT              Information Technology/ Operational Technology

ITE                  Installation, Training, Expense

ITP                  In trail procedure

IW                   Information Warfare

JIM                  Joint Investigative Mechanism

JPL                  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

JSR                  Jamming-to-signal ratio

KE                   Kinetic energy

KEW               Kinetic energy weapon

K’IHAP          Short Shout in Tae Kwon Do

KKW               Kinetic Kill Weapon/Warhead

LASER           “A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The term “laser” originated as an acronym for “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.” A laser differs from other light sources in that it emits light coherently, spatially, and temporally. Spatial coherence allows a laser to be focused on a tight spot, enabling laser cutting and lithography applications laser cutting and lithography. Spatial coherence also allows a laser beam to stay narrow over great distances (collimation), enabling applications such as laser pointers. Lasers can also have high temporal coherence, which allows them to emit light with a very narrow spectrum, i.e., they can emit a single color of light. Temporal coherence can produce pulses of light as short as a femtosecond. Used: for military and law enforcement devices for marking targets and measuring range and speed.” (Wiki-L, 2018)

LaWS              Laser weapon system

LCRD              Laser Communications Relay Demonstration

LED                Light emitting diodes

LENS              Laser-engineered net shaping

LDEF              Long Duration Exposure Facility

LGF                 Low Gradient Furnace

LH                   Left hand

LiDAR            Light Detection and Ranging – a RS method using light in the form of a pulsed laser to measure ranges

LOS                Line-of-sight / Loss of Signal / Loss of Separation

LLCD              Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration

LLTR              Low-level transit route

LM or L.M.     Loitering munitions

LMM               Lightweight Multi-role Missiles

LNT                Lethal non-trackable debris

LPI                  Low Probability of Intercept

LPD                 Low Probability of detection

LRAD             Long Range Acoustic Device  / Long-Range Area Denial [4]

LRL                 Lunar Receiving Laboratory

LSP                 Launch Service Providers

LuGRE            NASA Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment

LWSI              Livestock weather safety index

M&S               Modeling and simulation technologies

Mach 1            Speed of sound, 761.2 mph

MAD               Mutually assured destruction

M-ATV           Mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicle

MAME            Medium altitude medium endurance

MASER          Microwave Amplification Stimulated Emission of Radiation

MASINT         Measurement Intelligence

MAST             Micro Autonomous Systems & Technology

MDR               Motion detection and recognition

MEA               Micro electrode array

MEDUSA       (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio)

MEMS            Micro-electro-mechanical systems

MeRT              Magnetic Resonance Therapy

MIM                Man-in-middle attack

MIRV             Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles

ML                  Machine learning

MLAT             Multilateration System

MMEVR         Multi-Mission Extra Vehicular Robot

MMOD           Micrometeoroids and orbital debris

MND               Ministry of National Defense

MO-1              Microbial Observatory-1

MOA               Minute of angle in degrees

MOB               Man overboard*

MOPP             Mission Oriented Protective Posture (MOPP) Gear

MoU                Memorandum of Understanding

MRI                 Magnetic Resonance Imaging

MRVs             Multiple Re-entry Vehicles

mTBI               mild Traumatic Brain Injury

MRG               Europe – Meteosat Third Generation Lightning Imager

MSFC             NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

MSL                MARS Science Laboratory

MSRA             Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

MT-1               Microbial Tracking-1

MTI                 Moving target indicator

MUM-T           Manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T)

NAS                National Academy Of Sciences

NATO             North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NASA             National Aeronautical and Space Administration

NCSS              National Cooperative Soil Survey

NDM               Navigation data modification spoofing attack

NDVI              Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

NEB                New Economic Block soldier

NERC             North American Electric Reliability Corporation

NEUROSTRIKE Series of cognitive impairment events caused by Cyber, Cognitive, Nanotech,

Electronic Gateways, Metaverse and CHATGPT

NGB                National Guard Board

NGS                NGS = Next generation sequencing – replaces DNA approach in the food security region.

NGO               Nongovernmental organization

NHTSA           National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

NIEHS            National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

NIR                 Near Infrared

NKW              non-kinetic warfare

NLP                 Natural language processing

NMA               Navigation Message Authentication

NMHA            Normal Mode Helical Antenna

NO2                Nitrogen dioxide

NOAA             National Oceanic & Atmospheric Agency

NPK                amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (NPK) in soil

NSA                National Security Agency

NV                  Neurological vulnerability

OCONUS        Outside Continental United States

OCSD              Optical Communications and Sensor Demonstration

ODNI              Office of Deputy National Intelligence

OLI                  Operational Land Imager

OMAR On-Orbit Manufacture, Assembly and Recycling

OMI                Ozone Monitoring Instrument

OODA            Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act decision loops

OPALS            Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science

OPCW            Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

OPIR               Overhead persistent Infrared satellites

OPSEC           Operational Security

OSINT            Open-source intelligence (also OSI)

OSMA             NASA’s Office of Safety and Mission Assurance

OST                 Outer Space Treaty of 1967

OTH                Over-the-horizon

PDA                Personal digital assistant

PEACOQ        Performance-Enhanced Array for Counting Optical Quanta

PFMI               Pore formation and mobility investigation furnace / low-temperature furnace for solidification and remelting of transparent materials

PETMAN        Humanoid robot developed for US Army -Protection Ensemble Test Mannequin

Phigital            Digital and human characteristics & patterns overlap

PII                   Private identifying information and credentials

PLA                Peoples Liberation Army (Chinese)

PLAN             Peoples Liberation Army & Navy (Chinese)

PMU               Phasor Measurement Unit

PNS                 Peripheral Nerve Stimulation

PNT                 Positioning, navigation, and timing systems

POV                Point of view

PPE                 Personal protective equipment

PRAM             Photovoltaic Radio-frequency Antenna Module technology

PRN                Pseudo-Random Noise

PSA                 Protective security advisors

PSR                 Primary Surveillance Radar

PSYOPS         Psychological warfare operations

QKD                Quantum Key Distribution

Quantum Supremacy  The point at which quantum computing power outpaces traditional computing power

QUBIT            A basic unit of quantum information. A two-state (or two-level) quantum-mechanical system

RAI                 Responsible Artificial Intelligence

RC                  Radio communications signals

RCS                Radar cross-section

RDD               Radiological dispersion device

RF                   Radio Frequency

RF-EMF          Radiofrequency – Electromagnetic field

RFID               Radio-frequency identification (tags)

RGB                Red Green Blue color band

RH                   Right hand

RID                 Remote identification of ID

RIMPAC         Rim of the Pacific

RKA                Chinese Relativistic Klystron Amplifier

RLLR              RLLR indicates only parasitic elements are left-handed

RN                  Ryan-Nichols Qualitative Risk Assessment

RNRA            Ryan – Nichols Attack / Defense Scenario Risk Assessment for Cyber cases

ROA               Remotely operated aircraft

ROC                Republic of China

ROSCOSMOS Russian Federal Space Agency

ROV/ROUV   Remote operating vehicle / Remotely operated underwater vehicle

RPA                Remotely piloted aircraft

RPAS              Remotely piloted system

RPO                Rendezvous and Proximity Operations

RPV                Remotely piloted vehicle

RRRR              RRRR indicates for four-tier system components are all right-handed

RS                   Remote sensing

RSS                 Received signal strength / Remote Sensing & Surveillance

RTOS              Real time operating system

RTU                Remote terminal units

RV                  Re-entry vehicle

SA                   Situational Awareness

SAA                Sense and Avoid

SAM               Surface to Air missile

SAR                Synthetic aperture radar

SAR                Specific absorption rate – a measure of the rate of RF energy absorbed by the

body from the source measured

SATINT          Satellite intelligence

SATCOM       Satellite communications

SBIRs             Space-based Infrared System

SBLM             Submarine-launched ballistic missile

SCADA          Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems

SCMR             Strongly Coupled Magnetic Resonant System

SCRAM JET   a ram jet in which combustion takes place in a stream of gas moving at supersonic speed

SCS                 Shipboard control system (or station) / Stereo Camera System / South China Seas

SCS                 Spinal cord stimulation

SD                   Space Dominance

SDA                Space Domain Awareness / Pentagon Space Development Agency

SDR                Software-defined radio

SEAQUE         Space Entanglement And Annealing Quantum Experiment

SEAD             Suppression of enemy defenses

SECDEF         Secretary of Defense (USA)

SIC                  Successive Signal Interference Cancellation

SICKKIDS      Hospital for Sick Children

SIGINT           Signals Intelligence

Signature         UAS detection by acoustic, optical, thermal, and radio /radar

SINGULARITY Merger of man and machine (Barfield, 2015)

SM                  Soil monitoring

SMAs              Shape metal alloys

SMART          Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty

SML                Space mobility and logistics area support

S/N                  S / N = is one pulse received signal to noise ratio, dB: Signal to Noise ratio at

HAPS receiver (also, SNR)

SO2                 Sulfur dioxide

SOAD             Space Operational Art and Design

Soft damage    DEW disruption to a UAS computer

SOCID            Self Optimizing Clean In Place

SOCOM          U.S. Army Special Operations Command

SOLAS           Safety of Life at Sea (International Maritime Convention) [safety conventions]

SQF                 Solidification Quench Furnace

Spoofing is A Cyber-weapon attack that generates false signals to replace valid ones. GPS Spoofing is an attack to provide false information to GPS receivers by broadcasting counterfeit signals similar to the original GPS signal or by recording the original GPS signal captured somewhere else at some other time and then retransmitting the signal. The Spoofing Attack causes GPS receivers to provide the wrong information about position

 and time. (T.E. Humphrees, 2008) (Tippenhauer & et.al, 2011) (Eichelberger, Robust Global Localization using GPS and Aircraft Signals, 2019) (Nichols & Sincavage, 2022)

Spoofing         Alt Def: A Cyber-weapon attack generates false signals to replace valid ones.

SS                    Space Shuttle

SSBN              Strategic nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine

SSL                 Solid state laser

SSLT               Seamless satellite-lock takeover spoofing attack

SSN                 US Space Surveillance Network

SSR                 Secondary Surveillance Radar

STEALTH       to resist detection

STM                Space traffic management

sUAS              Small Unmanned Aircraft System

SUBSA           Solidification using a Baffle in Sealed Ampoules/ SUBSA vertical gradient furnace (transparent growth zone)

SVP                 Sub-vehicle point – Point on earth’s surface right below the Satellite

SWARM         High level, a dangerous collaboration of UAS, UUV, or unmanned boats

SWAT             Space Warfare Analysis Tools; Special Weapons and Tactics

T & T              Track and Traceability

T2AR              T2 Augmented Reality project

Taiwan ROC   Taiwan is officially the Republic of China

TALOS           Tactical assault light operator suit

TCAS              Traffic collision avoidance system

TDOA             Time difference of arrival

TEAM (UAS) High-level, a dangerous collaboration of UAS, UUV, or unmanned boats; differs

from SWARM in that it has a UAS Team Leader (TL) where SWARM does not.

TL directs the UAS team and is the primary counter UAS target to disrupt.

TED                Technology, Entertainment, Design “Talks”

THOR             Tactical high-power operational responder

TIROS             Television InfraRed Observational Satellite

TMS                Transcranial magnetic stimulation

TNT                 Trinitrotoluene

TO                   Theater of Operations

TOA                Time of arrival

ToF                 Time of flight

TPAI               Third Party Created (invented)

TPS                 Thermal protective system

TRANSEC      Transmission security

TTFF               Time to first fix (latency)

TTPs                Tactic, Technique, and Procedures

Tx                    Transmit signal

UA                  Unmanned Aircraft (non-cooperative and potential intruder)

UAM               Urban Air Mobile (vehicle)

UAS-p             UAS pilot

UAS                Unmanned aircraft system (popularly but incorrectly referred to as drones)

UAT                Universal access transceiver

UAV               Unmanned aerial vehicle / Unmanned autonomous vehicle.

UAV-p            UAV pilot

UCAR             Unmanned combat armed rotorcraft

UCARS          UAV common automated recovery system

UCWA / UA   Unintentional cyber warfare attack

UGCS             Unmanned Ground Control Station

UGS                Unmanned ground-based station

UGT                Unmanned ground transport

UGV               Unmanned ground vehicle

UHF                Ultra-high frequency

Un                   United Nations

UNOOSA        The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

USDA             US Department of Agriculture

USV                Unmanned Surface Vessel

UUV               Unmanned underwater vehicle

UWB               Ultrawideband

VAR                Visual-aural Range

VBN                Visual-based navigation

VBN LiDAR   Visual-based navigation: Light Detection and Ranging – a RS method using light

in the form of a pulsed laser to measure ranges

VDL               VHF Data link

VI                   Vegetation Indices

VIEW              Virtual Interface Environment Workstation

VIIRS              Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite

VIS                  Visible

VPL                 Visual Programming Languages

VR                  Virtual reality

VRT                Variable rate technology

VLOS             visual line of sight

VTOL             Vertical take-off and landing

VX                  Deadly nerve agent

WAM             Wide area multilateration

WFOV            Wide field of view

WFUL             Wake Forrest University Laboratory

WHO               World Health Organization

WLAN            Wide Local area network

WMD              Weapons of Mass Destruction

WMDD           Mini-Weapons of Mass Destruction and Disruption

WMO             World Meteorological Organization

WPT                Wireless Power Transfer

Xr                   Extended Reality

 

 

Special Definitions (Nichols & Carter, 2022) (Nichols R. K., 2020)

Asymmetric warfare can describe a conflict in which the resources of two belligerents differ in essence and, in the struggle, interact and attempt to exploit each other’s characteristic weaknesses. Such struggles often involve strategies and tactics of unconventional warfare, the weaker combatants attempting to use strategy to offset deficiencies in quantity or quality of their forces and equipment. (Thomas, 2010) Such strategies may not necessarily be militarized. (Steponova, 2016)

This contrasts with symmetric warfare, where two powers have comparable military power and resources and rely on similar tactics, differing only in details and execution. (Thomas, 2010)

  

Classification of Satellites

Satellites are classified in terms of their purpose and are classified as follows:

Astronomical satellites – observation of distant planets and galaxies.

Biosatellites – carry living organisms to aid scientific experiments.

Communication satellites – communications satellites use geosynchronous or Low Earth orbits to communicate with each other and other systems.

Earth observation satellites (EOS) are satellites intended for non-military uses such as environmental monitoring, meteorology, and producing maps.

Killer satellites are designed to destroy warheads, satellites, and space-based objects.

Navigational satellites use radio time signals transmitted to enable mobile receivers on the ground to determine their exact location. The relatively clear line of sight between the satellites and receivers on the ground allows satellite navigation systems to measure location to accuracies on the order of a few meters in real-time.

Reconnaissance satellites are communications satellites deployed for military or intelligence applications.

Recovery satellites provide a recovery of reconnaissance, biological, space-production, and other payloads from orbit to Earth.

Space stations are orbital structures designed for human beings to live in space. A space station is distinguished from other crewed spacecraft by its lack of major propulsion or landing facilities. Space stations are designed for medium-term living in orbit.

Tether satellites are connected to another satellite by a thin cable called a tether; and

Weather satellites are used to monitor Earth’s weather and climate.

Drake Equation. An equation proposed by Cornell astronomer Frank Drake in 1961, what attempts to calculate the number of sentient species which could exist and are potential contacts during the life of our civilization.

 

 

Electronic Warfare (EW) is the art and science of denying an enemy the benefits of the electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) while preserving them for friendly forces. (Wolff, 2022)

Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) is the analysis and identifying intercepted transmissions, including frequency, bandwidth,  modulation (“waveform”), and polarization. Four categories of SIGINT are: (Wolff, 2022)

  • Electronic Intelligence (ELINT)
  • Communications Intelligence (COMINT)
  • Foreign instrument SIGINT (FISINT)
  • Measurement intelligence (MASINT) Covered in Chapter 10 of DRONE DELIVERY OF CBNRECy – DEW WEAPONS Emerging Threats of Mini-Weapons of Mass Destruction and Disruption (WMDD)  (Nichols & Sincavage, 2022)

  

EW Sub-Areas

Electronic Warfare Support (EWS/ES) measures detection, intercept, identification, location, and localizes sources of intended and unintended radiated electromagnetic (EM) energy. (Wolff, 2022)

Activities related to ES include:

  • Electronic Reconnaissance: location, identification, and evaluation of foreign electromagnetic radiation
  • Electronic intelligence: Technical and geolocation intelligence derived from foreign non-communications electromagnetic radiation emanating from sources other than nuclear detonations or radioactive sources
  • Electronics security: protection resulting from all measures designed to deny unauthorized persons information of value that might be derived from the interception and study of non-communications electromagnetic radiation, e.g., radar. (Wolff, 2022)[3]

Electronic Attack (EA) activities – may be either offensive or defensive and include: (Wolff, 2022)

  • Countermeasures: employment of devices and/or techniques that has as their objective the impairment of the operational effectiveness of enemy activity
  • Electromagnetic deception: Covered in Chapter 7 of DRONE DELIVERY OF CBNRECy – DEW WEAPONS
  • Emerging Threats of Mini-Weapons of Mass Destruction and Disruption (WMDD) (Nichols & Sincavage, 2022) Various EM deception techniques, such as a false target or duplicate target generation, confuse the enemy intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems (ISR). (Wolff, 2022)

 

  • Electromagnetic intrusion: is the intentional insertion of EM energy (EME) into transmission paths in any manner to deceive operators or to cause confusion.
  • Electromagnetic jamming is deliberate radiation, reradiation, or reflection of EME to prevent or reduce an enemy’s effective use of the EMS and with the intent of degrading or neutralizing the enemy’s combat capability.
  • Electromagnetic pulse is EM radiation from a strong electronic pulse [Directed energy weapons (DEW)] that may couple with electrical or electrical systems to produce damaging current and voltages. (Wolff, 2022)Chapters 9-11 in DRONE DELIVERY OF CBNRECy – DEW WEAPONS Emerging Threats of Mini-Weapons of Mass Destruction and Disruption (WMDD) expertly cover the subject. (Nichols & Sincavage, 2022)

 

  • Electronic probing is intentional radiation designed to be introduced into the devices and systems of potential enemies to learn the operational capabilities of the devices and systems.
  • Cyber or electronic spoofing: A Cyber-weapon attack that generates false signals to replace valid ones. GPS Spoofing is an attack to provide false information to GPS receivers by broadcasting counterfeit signals similar to the original GPS signal or by recording the original GPS signal captured somewhere else at some other time and then retransmitting the signal. The Spoofing attack causes GPS receivers to provide the wrong information about position and time. (T.E. Humphrees, 2008) (Tippenhauer & et.al, 2011) (Nichols & Sincavage, 2022)

Electronic protection measures (EP): EP measures fall into six categories: (Wolff, 2022)

EM hardening: actions are taken to protect personnel, facilities, and or equipment by blanking, filtering, attenuating, grounding, bonding, and shielding against undesirable effects of EME.

Electronic masking: controlled radiation of EME on friendly frequencies to protect the emissions of friendly communications and electronic systems against enemy EWS measures and SIGINT  without significantly degrading the operation of friendly systems.

Emission control: sensitive and controlled use of EM, acoustic, or other emitters to optimize command and control (C2) capabilities while minimizing the following for operations security (OPSEC): 1) detection by enemy sensors; 2) mutual interference among friendly systems; 3) enemy interference with the ability to execute a military deception plan. (Wolff, 2022)

EMS management: planning, coordinating, and managing joint use of the EMS through operational, engineering, and administrative procedures.

Wartime reserve modes: characteristics and operating procedures for sensors, communications, navigation aids, threat recognition, weapons, and countermeasures systems that will contribute to military effectiveness if unknown to or misunderstood by opposing commanders before they are used but could be exploited or neutralized if known in advance. (Wolff, 2022)

EM compatibility: the ability of systems, equipment, and devices that use the EMS to operate in their intended environments without causing or suffering unacceptable or unintentional degradation because of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) or response. (Wolff, 2022) This is an extremely important concept and is exploited by the use of UAS against USN assets in the South China Seas (SCS.) (Nichols & al., Unmanned Vehicle Systems and Operations on Air, Sea, and Land, 2020)

False Flag Operation – organized spreading of misinformation or disinformation.

Eichelberger Collective Detection (ECD) Definitions / Counter Spoofing Concepts

Acquisition – Acquisition is the process in a GPS receiver that finds the visible satellite signals and detects the delays of the PRN sequences and the Doppler shifts of the signals.

Circular Cross-Correlation (CCC) – In a GPS classical receiver, the circular cross-correlation is a similarity measure between two vectors of length N, circularly shifted by a given displacement d:

N-1

Cxcorr (a, b , d) = ∑    ai dot bI + d mod N             Eq. 3-1

I=0

The two vectors are most similar at the displacement d, where the sum (CCC value) is maximum. The vector of CCC values with all N displacements can be efficiently computed by a fast Fourier transform (FFT) in Ớ ( N log N ) time.  [4](Eichelberger, Robust Global Localization using GPS and Aircraft Signals, 2019)

Like classical GPS receivers, coarse-Time Navigation (CTN) is a snapshot receiver localization technique that measures sub-millisecond satellite ranges from correlation peaks. (IS-GPS-200G, 2013) [See also expanded definition above.]

Collective Detection (CD) is a maximum likelihood snapshot receiver localization method, which does not determine the arrival time for each satellite but combines all the available information and decides only at the end of the computation. This technique is critical to the (Eichelberger, Robust Global Localization using GPS and Aircraft Signals, 2019) invention to mitigate spoofing attacks on GPS or ADS-B.

Coordinate System – A coordinate system uses an ordered list of coordinates to uniquely describe the location of points in space. The meaning of the coordinates is defined concerning some anchor points. The point with all coordinates being zero is called the origin. [ Examples: terrestrial, Earth-centered, Earth-fixed, ellipsoid, equator, meridian longitude, latitude, geodetic latitude, geocentric latitude, and geoid. [5]

Localization – Process of determining an object’s place concerning some reference, usually coordinate systems. [aka Positioning or Position Fix]

Navigation Data is the data transmitted from satellites, which includes orbit parameters to determine the satellite locations, timestamps of signal transmission, atmospheric delay estimations, and status information of the satellites and GPS as a whole, such as the accuracy and validity of the data. (IS-GPS-200G, 2013) [6]

Pseudo-Random Noise (PRN) sequences are pseudo-random bit strings. Each GPS satellite uses a unique PRN sequence with a length of 1023 bits for its signal transmissions. aka as Gold codes, they have a low cross-correlation with each other. (IS-GPS-200G, 2013)

Snapshot GPS Receiver–  A snapshot receiver is a global positioning satellite (GPS) receiver that captures one or a few milliseconds of raw GPS signal for a location fix. (Diggelen, 2009)

GO VS. CHESS –  Space Dominance should be thought of as a game of GO,[7] NOT chess. In the former, the opponent aims to encircle (strangle) the opponent and deny him his strategic maneuver capability; in the latter, the opponent aims to completely deprive him of individual pieces (assets) or prevent defensive movement so that he can slaughter his ruler (king). (Wright, 2020)

ISR – Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance [8]

Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations (ISR) are used to collect information about the enemy, terrain, weather, and other aspects of the Area of Operation (AO) that will affect friendly combat operations. (Global Security.Org, 2022)

The Army has conducted reconnaissance and surveillance tasks since its inception. The production of intelligence (the product resulting from the collection, processing, integration, analysis, evaluation, and interpretation of available information concerning an enemy force or area of operation) has always been critical to successfully accomplishing the mission. ISR is the term currently applied to combined arms enabling operation that combines previously described as reconnaissance and surveillance (a maneuver or collection task) with the production and dissemination of intelligence (a staff task). ISR is a constant, continuous, and optimized operation that focuses on the collection of relevant information that is analyzed to create intelligence to support the commander’s and or leader’s situational understanding and the operational cycle. (Global Security.Org, 2022)

 

ISR SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY FROM SPACE

MIT gives an interesting purview of their mission for ISR from space. They see it as “Creating Technology To Provide Vital Tactical Information.” They conduct “R&D in advanced sensing, signal and image processing, decision support technology, and high-performance embedded computing to provide systems capable of gathering reliable intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance information.” (MIT R&D, 2022) It is this purview that the authors see from the user POV to develop “earth traces” from space capable of yielding unique information on non-military technologies such as agriculture management, crop rotation, global food supply, tree and fire zone management, and cattle management.

Satellite Orbits

The most common type of orbit is a geocentric orbit, with over 3,000 active artificial satellites orbiting the Earth. Geocentric orbits may be further classified by their altitude, inclination, and eccentricity.

The commonly used altitude classifications of the geocentric orbit are Low Earth Orbit (LEO), Medium Earth Orbit (MEO), Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO), and High Earth Orbit (HEO). Low Earth Orbit is any orbit below 2,000 km, Medium Earth Orbit is any orbit between 2,000 and 36,000 km, and High Earth Orbit is greater than 36,000 km. LLO: low lunar orbit is approximately 100 km above the lunar surface. L1 and L2: “Lagrange points are caused by the balance between the gravitational fields of two large bodies; equilibria between two pulling forces.

 

Centric classifications

A galactocentric orbit is an orbit around the center of a galaxy.

A heliocentric orbit is an orbit around the Sun. In our Solar System, all planets, comets, and asteroids are in such orbits, as are many artificial satellites and pieces of space debris.

Geocentric orbit is an orbit around Earth, such as the Moon or artificial satellites. Currently, there are over 2,500 active artificial satellites orbiting the Earth.

 

Altitude classifications

Low Earth Orbit (LEO): Geocentric orbits ranging in altitude from 180 km – to 2,000 km.

Medium Earth Orbit (MEO): Geocentric orbits ranging in altitude from 2,000 km – to 20,000 km.

Geosynchronous Orbit (GEO): Geocentric circular orbit with an altitude of 36,000 km. The orbit period equals one sidereal day, which coincides with the Earth’s rotation period. The speed is 3,075 m/s (10,090 ft/s).

High Earth orbit (HEO): Geocentric orbits above the altitude of a geosynchronous orbit (GEO) > 36,000 km (~ 40,000 km).

Light-year – 5.879 x 1012 miles

 

Agroterrorism / Bioterrorism Definitions

Agroterrorism is a subset of bioterrorism and is defined as the deliberate introduction of an animal or plant disease to generate fear, causing economic losses and/or undermining stability. (O.S. Cupp, 2004)

Bioterrorism is the threat or use of biological agents by individuals or groups motivated by political, religious, ecological, or other ideological objectives.

Earth Observation Epidemiology or tele-epidemiology is defined as ‘using space technology with remote sensing in epidemiology. (Wiki, 2022)

MASINT – Measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) is a technical branch of intelligence gathering that detect, track, identify or describe the distinctive characteristics (signatures) of fixed or dynamic target sources. This often includes radar, acoustic, nuclear, chemical, and biological intelligence. MASINT is scientific and technical intelligence derived from the analysis of data obtained from sensing instruments to identify any distinctive features associated with the source, emitter, or sender, to facilitate the latter’s measurement and identification. (Wiki, 2022)

OSI, short for OPEN-SOURCE Intelligence (also known as OSINT), is defined as any intelligence produced from publicly available information that is collected, exploited, and disseminated in a timely manner to an appropriate audience to address a specific intelligence requirement. (Bazzell, 2021)

Remote Sensing (RS) uses non-ground-based imaging systems to obtain information about processes and events on Earth. It is unique among the detection and diagnostic methods discussed herein in its ability to offer passive monitoring for the disease at scale rather than active sampling. (Silva & et.al, 2021)

Sentient – The ability of an organism to perceive and feel things. This definition implies that said organism is capable of rational thought and decision-making.

State – A state can mean a country, a government, or political authority. It means absolute control over a fixed territory on Earth.

 

 

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ENDNOTES

[1] All Acronyms taken from (Nichols R. K., 2020) and  (Nichols & Sincavage, 2022) and the Wildcat UAS/CUAS/UUV/Space textbook series 2017-2023 unless otherwise noted.

[2] EM definitions from (Wolff, 2022)

[3] Since 1998, Christian Wolff has maintained the educational website www.radartutorial.eu

[4] Ớ = Order of magnitude; dot = dot product for vectors

[5] All these systems are discussed in Chapter 2 of (Eichelberger, Robust Global Localization using GPS and Aircraft Signals, 2019)

[6] Each satellite has a unique 1023-bit PRN sequence, plus some current navigation data, D. Each bit is repeated 20 times for better robustness. Navigation data rate is limited to 50 bit / s. This also limits sending timestamps every 6 seconds, satellite orbit parameters (function of the satellite location over time) only every 30 seconds. As a result, the latency of the first location estimates  after turning on a classic receiver, called the time to first fix (TTFF), can be high.

[7] AKA wei qi or baduk in Chinese and Korean, respectively.

[8] ISR defined from the USA Army POV only.

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