Interoperability & Situational Awareness
Tuesday June 22nd, 2010, 1600hrs–1730hrs
Chaired by Dr. William Miceli Coalition Portal for Situational Awareness (C-PORTS) Mr. Paul Mitten, Compusult Limited, Canada This presentation describes the implementation and application of C-PORTS, a geospatial portal (geoportal) Compusult has deployed for coalition-based situational awareness and interoperability, based on our Web Enterprise Suite (WES) commercial software. WES is a spatial data inventory system, providing highly interoperable and tightly integrated components for discovery, access, visualization, and sharing of any type of location-based data and services. WES interoperability is based on its compliance with all relevant Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC, ISO, U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and FGDC standards and specifications. WES now incorporates a new, advanced Web-based map client, a new technology-based inventory system designed to meet the latest DoD requirements, and compliance with the latest OGC specifications. This includes access to sensors and sensor observations in accordance with OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) initiative standards and specifications via the WES Sensor Management (WSM) component. We will demonstrate how C-PORTS, through WES technology, fully employs a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and data fusion capabilities for improved leader-centric, net-enabled operations. In addition, the WES Sensor Management (WSM) component supports OGC SWE standards, as well as mass market tools, for access to sensor observations, tasking of sensors, and dissemination of sensor alerts within its standards-based geoportal environment. WES and C-PORTS are currently being used to perform similar tasks for the U.S. DoD and coalition partners. WES has also been used in multinational/multi-agency task force environments for previous CWID, Empire Challenge, and JWID programs. Affordable Net-Enabling of Legacy Systems Mr. James Thomas, Naval Surface Warfare Center (Dahlgren Division), United States Download Author Biography (PDF) Joint, combined and multi-national forces require high levels of interoperability and integration to enable them to share situational awareness, work seamlessly together, and maximize their warfighting effectiveness. The foundation for implementing this net-centric vision is a set of Internet/Web-based technical standards that apply to Service-Oriented Architectures, software services (e.g, Web Service Description Language (WSDL)) and data (e.g., eXtensible Markup Language (XML)). A major hurdle to realizing this net-centric vision is the cost, schedule and risks associated with legacy system modernization to comply with net-centric technical standards. To further complicate this challenge, tactical combat and weapon systems often require assured real-time performance, weapon safety-conscious design, and secure operations. Current web-based technologies are unable to meet these requirements. This creates a dilemma for these critical systems, and it hampers advances in interoperability and integration with other systems. To address these challenges, the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Dahlgren has developed a software technology, the Net-Centric Adapter for Legacy Systems (NCALS). NCALS is a highly configurable technology that enables the integration of data, software applications, systems, and Systems of Systems. In addition, the NCALS technology supports application of the “separation of concerns” principle to combat and weapon system architectures. This allows mission critical systems to participate in a net-centric force without jeopardizing their real-time performance, weapon safety and security requirements. This paper will discuss the NCALS technology and its potential applications. Global Approach to Sea Border Surveillance (MATRICS) Mr Stéphane Claisse, DCNS, France A global sea border maritime surveillance system aims to maintain situational awareness of activities (legitimate and unlawful) developing in the high sea, coastal waters and ports and permit to perform decided trans-border common missions of interest. In 2007, DCNS established a roadmap for a global system targeting to permanently track and monitor all type of ship traffics and vulnerable trading lanes and zones in order to detect abnormal or illicit vessel behaviour to understand and early identify threatening situations. This future generation of maritime surveillance system, called MATRICS will allow:
• Permanent and all weather coverage of border maritime areas.
• Continuous collection and fusion of heterogeneous data provided by various types of shore and deployed sensors and other information from external sources.
• Supervised automatic detection of abnormal vessel behaviours (in track and activity) and generate alarms.
• Understanding of suspicious events and early identification of threats from series of detected spatiotemporal abnormal vessel behaviours (alarms). The global approach has led DCNS, supported by key partners, to successfully launch various initiatives in 2008 and 2009 – both in France and in Europe – dedicated to demonstrate the feasibility of all critical aspects of such an ambitious system Status and (at sea) results of the current initiatives demonstrating automatic detection of abnormal behaviour (SCANMARIS, TAMARIS), new sensors, global data fusion and recognized maritime situation awareness (SISMARIS, I2C), as well the capability of a fully passive sensor suite (PROPAGATION) will be presented.
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