It provides radar, infrared and other surveillance sensors carried by U.A.V's as well as ground stations in which pilots fly the planes via computer.
The surveillance sensors were linked to the shipboard main computer, and the work was done automatically.
Various metamaterial antenna systems can be employed to support surveillance sensors, communication links, navigation systems and command and control systems.
The demonstration proved that the combination of autonomy, vehicle mobility, surveillance sensors, and satellite communications can provide a means of battlefield situational awareness without human intervention.
This reduces a platform's susceptibility to infrared guided weapons and infrared surveillance sensors, and thus increases the platform's overall survivability.
Other optical systems that use lenses and mirrors are also referred to as "catadioptric" such as surveillance catadioptric sensors.
These include target reports from surveillance sensors such as radars as well as processed information such as aircraft tracks and various system status messages.
Both unmanned combat aircraft carried air-to-air weapons, long-range surveillance sensors, and electronic jammers and decoys, all to protect the Megafortress while it was in the target area.
I am also receiving sound from the outside surveillance sensors, which are analogue, not digital.
The Reaper is being used as a testbed for Gorgon Stare, a wide-area surveillance sensor system.