Mobile surveillance vehicle system

• US 20040046688A1
• Filed: 09/06/2002
• Published: 03/11/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/06/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Christopher B. Adams, Mark W. Bigge
• Original Assignee: Christopher B. Adams, Mark W. Bigge
• Inventors: Adams, Christopher B., Bigge, Mark W.
• Application Number:
  US10/236,154
• Publication Number:
  US 20040046688A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 342/52
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/86 Combinations of radar systems with non-radar systems, e.g. sonar, direction finder
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/03 Details of HF subsystems specially adapted therefor, e.g. common to transmitter and receiver

Abstract

A mobile surveillance vehicle security system, comprising one or more low profile vehicles equipped with a combination of thermal and radar equipment to provide surveillance of large areas using few assets, extended line-of-sight surveillance, integration with other sensor systems, information sharing, and system survivability of loss of sensors and vehicles.

Claims

1. :

A mobile low profile surveillance vehicle comprising a thermal imager and a ground radar system both mounted on a telescoping mast.

2. :

The vehicle of claim 1 where in the thermal imager is a light weight, all weather thermal imager.

3. :

The vehicle of claim 1, where the ground radar is a pulse emission ground Doppler surveillance radar system.

4. :

The vehicle of claim 1 in which the vehicle is a Hum-Vee.

5. :

The vehicle of claim 1 further comprising a TOW2 missile launcher.

6. :

The vehicle of claim 1 further comprising a receiver/transmitter to provide real-time communication.

7. :

A mobile surveillance perimeter protection system comprising a plurality of mobile, low profile, surveillance vehicles, each vehicle comprising a thermal imager and a ground radar system both mounted on a telescoping mast.

8. :

The system of claim 7 wherein the thermal imagers are light weight, all weather thermal imagers.

9. :

The system of claim 7, wherein the ground radar systems are pulse emission ground doppler surveillance radar systems.

10. :

The system of claim 7 in which the vehicles are Hum-Vees.

11. :

The system of claim 7 in which each of the vehicles further comprise a TOW2 missile launcher.

12. :

The system of claim 7 in which each vehicle is further equipped with a receiver/transmitter to provide real-time communication.