Controller with situational awareness display

A hand controller for remotely controlling a target, the hand controller comprising:

• at least one control member mounted on a base that is displaceable with respect to the base by a user for generating control inputs to command movement of the target;
• a display mounted on the control member for displaying to the user manipulating the at least one control member situational awareness information about the target, the situational awareness information comprising a direction-to-the-target relative to the hand controller;
• and
• software stored in memory that, when executed by one or more processors associated with the memory, performs a process comprising:
• receiving information on a target's geographical position using geographical coordinates;
• receiving information from which a geographical position and orientation of the hand controller can be determined;
• determining a direction to the target from the hand controller based on the orientation of the hand controller from the information received for the target's geographical information and the hand controller's geographical position and orientation;
• and
• causing the direction-to-target indicator to activate a visual element on the display indicating to the user the direction to the target relative from the hand controller.