Unattended Ground Sensors

There are two types of Unattended Ground Sensors that are being fielded under the United States Army's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Combat_Systems Future Combat Systems] Program, the Urban UGS or U-UGS and the Tactical UGS or T-UGS. Current generation is manufactured by Textron Defense Systems a subcontrator under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing Boeing] .

Tactical Unattended Ground Sensor

T-UGS are small ground-based sensors that collect intelligence thru sesmic, acoustic, Radiological Nuclear and Electro-Optic means. These sensors are networked devices that provide an early warning system to supplement a platoon size element and is capable of remote operation. To an extent T-UGS will detect, track, classify, and identify personnel and vehicles within its coverage area and report to the FCS Network in near real-time.

T-UGS is comprised of the following sensor systems:
* The Gateway Node, which inself is a router and data collector that sends information back to a FCS Network equipped veichle.
* The Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR)Node which is the key component aquires and tracks personnel, vehicles and aircraft thru seismic and acoustic means.
* The Electro-Optic Node obtains information from the ISR node and pans its camera toward the Point of Interest and is able to track and send images thru the FCS Network.
*The Radiological Nuclear Node is capable of measuring and reporting gamma dose-rate and accumulated dose from a fallout environment in a tactical battlefield situation. Detected radiological events will be transmitted via a detailed spot report through the Gateway Node to an operator on the FCS network.

Urban Unattended Ground Sensor

For urban areas, the Urban-Unattended Ground Sensors (U-UGS) is used as a surveillance tool during buliding clearing operations, caves, sewers, tunnels, and other confined spaces. Textron Defense Systems, along with Honeywell, designed these wireless, hand emplaced system of sensors to be lightweight and low cost. The U-UGS network is capable of taking field-of-view images of intruders in all light conditions and transmit images to the FCS Network where immediate recognition of human intruders can be achieved or using a motion detections only sensor to detect intruders when imaging is not needed.

The U-UGS sensors are made up of the following:
* The Gateway bridges the U-UGS sensor field to the FCS network and relays motion alarm and image data. It is capable to be monitored locally by a soldier or remotely thru a FCS Netork enabled vehicle.
* The Intrusion node basically is a motion sensor that detects movement and is able to tell the difference between animal and human.
* The Imager node is a combination of motion sensor and all light condition capable camera. Whereas making identification much more easier.

References

# [http://textrondefense.com/products/intelligent_battlefield.htm Textron Defense Systems]

External Links

# [https://www.fcs.army.mil/systems/ugs/index.html Future Combat Systems]
# [http://www.textron.com/textron_businesses/defense_and_intelligence/textron_systems_products.jsp#9prod Textron]