Maj Stephen Steele
The Enhanced Acoustic Remote Sentry (EARS) is an Air Force Research Lab program under development to enhance the Integrated Base Defense Security System. The system will demonstrate a remote, panoramic, multimedia sensor that achieves a useful tele-presence for a Base Defense Operations Center. The function of EARS is to provide a semi-automatic detection and localization of sniper fire and other threats with acoustic signatures beyond terrain obscurants. By making the interface semi-automatic, clearly identifiable acoustic signatures are rapidly displayed to a command user while less identifiable acoustic events are left to the human user for interpretation. Additionally, the remote, panoramic, multimedia interface can be used to verify alarms and investigate false alarms generated by other sensor systems.