Gorgon Stare

Persistent Wide-Area Airborne Surveillance (WASS) System

Gorgon Stare (GS) is a one-of-a-kind Persistent Wide-Area Airborne Surveillance (WAAS)
System. A Multi-Mission/Multi-Mode Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR)
platform with a unique Electro-Optical/Infrared (EO/IR) toolset providing wide-area (city-sized),
continuous stare coverage. Currently fielded on an unmanned aerial system, GS feeds
simultaneous reports to multiple individual independent taskings. Specifically tailored for ISR
operations in forward tactical areas, GS can provide a wide-area overwatch with ten (10)
focused video feeds sent directly to individual users on the ground. The sensor is packaged in
a turret maximizing the overall ISR imaging capability in a networked imagery distribution
system. High resolution, real-time motion video of activities of interest are collected to supply
Pattern-of-Life and Post-Event Forensics.
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Gorgon Stare Day/Night Motion Imagery Operational
Concept
Simultaneously covers 3 tiers
Synoptic, wide-area coverage, full field-of-regard
Multiple sub-views of the full field-of-view
Best-resolution tactical chip-outs
Gorgon Stare has immediate output in 3 tiers
Forensics/Pattern-of-life (30 day mission data archive)
Area-of-interest overwatch
Tactical consumers/first responders
Gorgon Stare offers improved area coverage
resolution, with Onboard Knowledge Generation
Flexible, modular architecture approach
Scalable, tailorable for platform/mission diversity
Open, standards-based, no proprietary
processing/viewers
Ongoing, best athlete/best technology incorporation
Gorgon Stare
Persistent Wide-Area Airborne Surveillance (WASS) System
Real-time Area & Chip-out Motion
Video of Circle-of-Persistence (COP)
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Mission: City-sized, 24/7 Persistent Surveillance
Legend:
GCS Ground Control Station
GSN Ground Support Node
Tactical RVT Tactical Remote Video Terminal
GSGS Gorgon Stare Ground Station
CJTF Combined Joint Task Force
NGA National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Theater The Threat Area of Interest
Left Pod
Communications and Networking
Ri ght Pod
Visible/IR Camera Arrays,
Processors Onboard Image Processing
Sierra Nevada Corporation Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance
11551 East Arapahoe Road, Centennial, CO 80112
Phone: (303) 795-0604 Fax: (303) 858-0106
Email: isr@sncorp.com
6/9/2014
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