The papers below present some of the areas we are currently investigating. The papers, like our demonstrations, are a representation of our capability to provide solutions to your problems. We welcome the opportunity to discuss how ElanTech engineers can serve your needs.
Abstract: The Incident Management & Decision Support System (IMDSS) project will deliver a web-enabled software suite to collect, share and process data and events as they occur, providing situation awareness at the state emergency management level and below. The IMDSS will deliver near-real-time fusion of data from a variety of local and global sources providing incident managers with the ability to monitor and respond to emergency situations in a timely fashion.
Architecture for Platform, Device, and Location Independent Display, Analysis, and Manipulation of Command and Control Information [Full Text]
Abstract: The rapid dissemination of information to both the warfighter and analyst is critical on the modern battlefield. In addition, the tools used to analyze and display the information must be accurate, reliable, and consistent, independent of the platform, or deployment methodology currently being used. Displayed information includes raw sensor data, processed/fused sensor data, results of analysis, friendly force location and status, local context, and a variety of other data. This document presents a software architecture that is capable of displaying information in a consistent fashion across a number of application architectures, deployment scenarios, and target devices.
Widely Distributed C4ISR [Full Text]
Abstract: Advances in networking and communications make the dream of a highly connected mobile war fighter, persistent networked sensors, and distributed command and control a reality. However, being able to communicate is only the first part of the problem. The ability to easily communicate with a wide variety of highly distributed sensors and systems presents significant new problems that need to be addressed. First, an application must discover what services are available and establish communications with the desired services. Secondly, time synchronization across all of the networked systems is critical to correctly correlating the information into a coherent picture. In addition, maintaining data consistency in a highly distributed environment is an extremely challenging problem. Given the amount of data available clients must be able to subscribe to specific data in order to avoid information/system overload. Finally the information must be presented to the user in a form and on a platform well suited to the task at hand. All of these problems, and many more, must be solved in order to deliver a truly effective net-centric C4ISR system.
A software architecture will be presented that attempts to solve the issues described above. The architecture inherently includes many features designed to address these issues. In addition, the user can select data from a wide variety of services, both local and remote and control how it is accessed, processed, and displayed. A detailed analysis of each of these techniques and how it impacts the effectiveness of the system will be discussed.
GIS abstraction of visualization applications [Full Text]
Abstract: Spatial data is of crucial importance to situation awareness in the battlefield. As geo-located data from local sensors and global intelligence is gathered and made available, it becomes necessary to route, filter, analyze and present information for decision-making. GIS provides the most intuitive platform for manual/visual correlation of all the gathered information. Too often, presentation applications are tightly coupled with a GIS which limits their use of new GIS products as they emerge. This paper presents a technique for abstracting client applications from the underlying map display to accommodate the many different GIS applications used by military programs.
Focused Knowledge for the Battlefield [Full Text]
Abstract: The United States Army is in the midst of a major transformation. The Future Force must be highly mobile, agile, and lethal to ensure its dominance in the future battlefield. This dominance is reliant on the ability to see and understand first (situational awareness). Persistent and pervasive sensing and processing, coupled with greatly increased speed of information flow, information assimilation, and decisive action, at and between all levels of our force, are necessary to fulfill this requirement.
The United States Army is most vulnerable in urban terrain. This highly constrained, complex environment presents a significant challenge to US forces, particularly dismounted infantry and military intelligence because opposing force activity is readily masked or obscured by background noise (commerce, schools, religious activity etc.). This paper proposes an intelligent interaction between the digitized dismounted units and military intelligence, for the significant benefit to both.