Situational Awareness

Situational Awareness (SA)

The Situational Awareness functional area (F1) provides video and camera feeds with tactical overlays including a PPI radar widget. This is the default screen shown when the HMI starts.

Camera Views

The SA screen supports flexible camera layout configurations to suit operational needs.

Single Camera View

A single camera feed with an information strip:

SA Single Camera

Camera with Strip Layout

The strip layout provides additional status information alongside the camera feed:

SA Single with Strip

Single Stream

A full-frame camera stream without strip:

SA Single Stream Day

Quad Camera Views

Multiple camera feeds can be displayed simultaneously in quad layout:

Day Mode Night Mode Fullscreen
SA Quad Day SA Quad Night SA Quad Fullscreen

PPI Overlay

The SA screen includes a Plan Position Indicator (PPI) overlay that displays a radar-style situational awareness indicator on top of the camera feed. The PPI can show:

  • Vehicle heading indicator
  • Range rings
  • Threat contacts as colour-coded markers
  • Field of view arc

See the PPI page for details on available styles and configuration.

LSAS Strip

The LSAS (Local Situational Awareness System) strip shows six live camera thumbnails in a horizontally scrollable view with a 360° direction bar. When threats are present, diamond-shaped indicators are overlaid directly onto the camera thumbnails at the corresponding bearing.

  • Toggle the strip with F6 on the SA screen
  • Switch day/night mode with F5
  • Threat diamonds appear at the corresponding bearing on camera views
  • Closer threats appear lower, distant threats appear higher on the thumbnails

See Threats for more details on threat indicator overlays.

SA Controls

Key Action
F1 Switch to SA screen
F5 Toggle day/night mode
F6 Toggle LSAS camera strip

State Machine

stateDiagram-v2 [*] --> SingleStream : Enter SA state "SA Screen" as SA { SingleStream : Live Camera Feed + PPI Overlay QuadView : 4 Camera Streams + Mini PPIs state "LSAS Strip" as LSAS { StripOff : Hidden StripDay : Day Mode (6 Thumbnails + Threat Diamonds) StripNight : Night Mode StripOff --> StripDay : F6 Strip On StripDay --> StripOff : F6 Strip Off StripDay --> StripNight : F5 Night StripNight --> StripDay : F5 Day } SingleStream --> QuadView : F2 Quad QuadView --> SingleStream : F2 Quad Off state "Camera Selection" as Cam { Cam1 : Camera 1 (F1) Cam2 : Camera 2 (F7-F12) DayMode : Day Stream NightMode : Night Stream Cam1 --> Cam2 : Select Camera Cam2 --> Cam1 : Select Camera DayMode --> NightMode : Day/Night Toggle NightMode --> DayMode : Day/Night Toggle } } SA --> Alarms : F14 Alarms Alarms --> SA : Acknowledge / Close SA --> Threats : F15 Threats Threats --> SA : Dismiss / Close
  • PPI Widget — Radar overlay styles and configuration
  • Threats — Threat detection and tracking displays
  • DEF — Defence screen with dedicated radar view