Method and apparatus for sighting and targeting a controlled system from a common three-dimensional data set

A controlled system, comprising:

• a data acquisition system capable of acquiring a three-dimensional data set representing a field of view;
• a sighting and targeting subsystem, including:
• a program storage medium capable of storing the three-dimensional data set;
• a controller capable of generating a presentation of the three-dimensional data set;
• and
• a controller interface through which a position represented by at least a subset of the three-dimensional data can be sighted and through which the position can be targeted from a presentation of the subset;
• a control subsystem capable of implementing instructions from the sighting and targeting subsystem.

A method, comprising:

• acquiring a three-dimensional data set representing the content of a field of view;
• generating a three-dimensional representation of the content from the three-dimensional data set;
• displaying the three-dimensional representation;
• sighting a position within the field of view from the three-dimensional representation;
• and
• targeting the sighted position using the three-dimensional data set.