Alliant Techsystems and the Air National Guard worked in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to use "Scathe View" technology to assist Air National Guard search and rescue (SAR) missions.
Scathe View provides mission specialists with powerful real-time imagery of events on the ground both day and night via electro-optical and infrared sensors mounted on military aircraft. The sensors provide video imagery that is received on ground based display systems for real-time situation analysis.
The Scathe View technology was originally developed in conjunction with the Air Force to perform military missions but was rapidly converted to search and rescue and aerial mapping missions as the scale of the disaster along the Gulf Coast unfolded.
ATK technicians installed new hardware and software at ATK's Integrated Systems facility at Meacham Airport in Ft. Worth, Texas as well as on site at the Nevada's Air National Guard facility in Reno, Nevada.
The Scathe View system continues to provide aircrews with the best imaging possible to help them determine how they can optimize both their humanitarian search and rescue and military operational missions.
ATK is the Mission System Integrator for the Scathe View System and has been providing around the clock support of the Air National Guard's humanitarian missions.
